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ISKO logo This is the official website for ISKO – the premier international scholarly society devoted to the theory and practice of knowledge organization, bringing together professionals from different disciplines such as information science, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science, as well as special domains such as health informatics. ISKO's world-wide reach is supported through its regional Chapters.


ISKO hosts an international conference in even-numbered years. It last met in Porto, Portugal in July of 2018 and will meet again in Summer 2022 in Aalborg, Denmark. Proceedings of international conferences are listed here. In odd-numbered years most of ISKO's regional chapters host conferences; many of these are multilingual.


ISKO publishes the journal Knowledge Organization eight times a year. ISKO also is publishing an online encyclopedia of knowledge organization. We provide a database of KO literature and link to a repository of KO documents, to BARTOC KO registry and to other organizations of interest to KO scholars.

News

  • ISKO General Assembly is held online on July 7, 2020 (members please see email instructions)
  • Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the international conference in Aalborg will be held in 2022. Papers written for 2020 will be published soon. Follow updates on the conference website.
  • Dagobert Soergel has been unanimously elected new chair of ISKO Scientific Advisory Council

Recently published       (older)

    Knowledge organization. 47. Issue 4 mailed to ISKO members (issues >3 YO OA at Nomos eLibrary)
    Nippon Decimal Classification and Origins of the KO field (ISKO Encyclopedia of KO)
    Knowledge organization literature 2019 Issue 3-4
    Spanish-Portuguese ISKO Conference. 4
    Seoul NKOS Workshop (JDIS)
    Colon Classification in Wikidata
    Tribute to Jolande Goldberg (TSLL)
    IFLA Metadata Newsletter. 6. 1
    OntoAndalus: an ontology of Islamic artefacts for terminological purposes (SWJ)
    Innovative ideas by some post-WWII francophone classificationists (LCN)
    Exploring the renaissance of wayfinding and voyaging through the lens of KO (JDoc)
    The strangeness of subject cataloging (LT)
    The Routledge handbook of lexicography

Coming KO events       (ISKO only — by country — 2019 '18 '17 '16 '15 '14 '13 '12 '11 '10 '09 '08 '07)

Due do coronavirus pandemic, many planned events may be held online, postponed or cancelled

 2020-07-06/10    Bangalore SemTech: Semantic techniques and technologies for data and knowledge representation. 2020
 2020-07-09    online   ISKO General Assembly
 2020-07-13    online Terminologia e KO: sistemas, normas e ferramentas
 2020-07-27/31    Lisbon Healthcare terminology and digital transformation
 2020-08-01/05    Wuhan (online) ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. 2020
 2020-08-05/09    Bangkok Wikimania. 2020
 2020-09-00    online Consolidated NKOS Workshop
 2020-09-00    online DCMI Virtual
 2020-09-07/10    Amsterdam International Conference on Semantic Systems. 16
 2020-09-09/11    Birmingham Metadata and discovery
 2020-09-13    Barcelona Cognitive aspects of the lexicon. 6
 2020-09-13/14    Barcelona Joint conference on Lexical and computational semantics. 9
 2020-09-14/17    Novosibirsk International Bibliographic Congress. 3: Bibliographic information in digital culture
 2020-09-14/17    Bolzano Formal Ontology in Information Systems. 2020
 2020-09-16/20    Bolzano EKAW: International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. 22
 2020-09-19/25    Genève CIDOC Conference. 2020
 2020-09-21/22    Bolzano Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage. 2020
 2020-09-28/10-02    Pretoria Information Behaviour Conference
 2020-09-30/10-02    Zaragoza IberSID: encuentros internacionales sobre sistemas de información y documentación. 25
 2020-10-13/14    London Taxonomy Boot Camp London. 2020
 2020-10-14/16    Baku ICME, INTERCOM & ICOM Azerbaijan Joint Conference
 2020-10-15/17    Hammamet CIBAHN. 3: Libraries and archives in the digital humanities era
 2020-10-19/23    Galway ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. 29
 2020-10-26/29    Dublin ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval. 2020
 2020-10-26/30    Madrid Metadata & semantics research. 14
 2020-11-16/17    Washington Taxonomy Boot Camp. 2020
 2020-11-19/20    Paris HyperOtlet. 2020: Documents et documentation: approche rétro-prospective
 2020-11-24/27    Bourget du Lac Terminology & ontology: theory and applications. 14
 2020-11-30/12-04    online Metadata and semantics research. 14
 2021-00-00    Amiens   French ISKO Conference. 13
 2021-00-00    Ottawa DCMI International Conference on Metadata. 2021
 2021-07-00    Lisbon   Spanish-Portuguese ISKO Conference. 5
 2021-07-04/10    Bertinoro International Semantic Web Conference. 2021
 2021-08-19/26    Rotterdam IFLA World Library and Information Congress. 86
 2022-00-00    Aalborg   International ISKO Conference. 16
 2022-00-00    Dublin IFLA World Library and Information Congress. 87
 2023-00-00    Lyon   French ISKO Conference. 14

 

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