I S K O

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

International ISKO conference call for papers is published

Recently published (older)

KO journal Knowledge organization. 48. Issue 1 mailed to ISKO members (volumes >3 years old OA)
Subject access point and Folk classification (ISKO Encyclopedia of KO)
Knowledge organization literature 2021 Issue 1-2
conference outputs Italian ISKO Meeting. 10
SemOC. 2021: História e memória da KO no Brasil [video]
KOS LRM elements set as RDF
report IFLA Metadata Newsletter. 7. 1
report The Indexing Project: access points and data sharing (Brighton Design Archives)
paper Robert Pagès: Documentary transformations and cultural context (PDA)
paper The status of KO in LIS master's programs (CCQ)
paper De indicibus librorum e a arte da indicialização em Conrad Gesner (Informação)
paper Classifying economics for the common good: sustainable development goals and JEL codes (JDoc)
book AgroVoc: semantic data interoperability on food and agriculture

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

2021-08-03	online	IFLA Subject Analysis and Access Section meeting
2021-08-13/17	online	Wikimania. 2021
2021-08-17/19	online	IFLA World Library and Information Congress. 86
2021-08-26	online	IFLA Subject Analysis and Access Section meeting
2021-09-01/03	Zaragoza	Language, data and knowledge. 3
2021-09-06/09	Amsterdam	SEMANTiCS: International Conference on Semantic Systems. 17
2021-09-13/16	Bolzano	Formal Ontology in Information Systems. 2020
2021-09-13/17	online	Theory and practice of digital libraries. 25
2021-09-30	online	KO and digital humanities. 3
2021-10-06/08	online	IberSID: International Conference on Information and Documentation Systems. 26
2021-10-24/28	online	International Semantic Web Conference. 19
2021-10-25/27	online	IC3K: Knowledge discovery, knowledge engineering and KM. 13
2021-10-29	online	German ISKO Conference. 2021: Digitization and KO
2021-11-25/26	Lisbon	Spanish-Portuguese ISKO Conference. 5
2021-11-29/12-03	Madrid	Metadata and Semantics Research Conference. 15
2021-12-00	online	Brazilian ISKO Conference. 6
2021-12-17	online	KO and digital humanities. 4
2022-00-00	Dublin	IFLA World Library and Information Congress. 87
2022-05-29/06-01	Oslo	CoLIS: Conceptions of library and information science. 11
2022-07-06/08	Aalborg	International ISKO Conference. 17
2022-12-00	Amiens	French ISKO Conference. 13
2023-00-00	Lyon	French ISKO Conference. 14
2023-08-00	Rotterdam	IFLA World Library and Information Congress. 88