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.

Recently published (older)

KO journal Knowledge organization. 47. Issue 8 mailed to ISKO members (volumes >3 YO OA at Nomos eLibrary)
Hierarchy and STW Thesaurus (ISKO Encyclopedia of KO)
Knowledge organization literature 2020 Issue 3-4
conference outputs Metadata and semantic research. 14
Wissensorganisation und Bibliographische Daten (WikiCite. 2020) [video]
KOS LRM elements set as RDF
report An A to Z of indexing for National Indexing Day 2021
report Industry uses for taxonomies (AT)
paper Layout logical labelling and finding the semantic relationships between citing and cited paper content (IJMSO)
paper Fusion architectures for automatic subject indexing under concept drift (IJDL)
paper Sequential linked data: the state of affairs (SWJ)
paper Information retrieval and KO: a perspective from the philosophy of science (Information)
book Information studies and other provocations

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

2021-04-20	online	ISKO UK Meetup. Beyond the hero journey
2021-04-27/29	online	International Congress on Bibliography. 3
2021-04-28	online	KO Research Observatory. Using computational ethnography
2021-05-04	online	VocBench Workshops. 2: Data Import with Sheet2RDF
2021-05-07/08	Vienna	European DDC Users Group Meeting. 2021
2021-05-14	Cremona	Italian ISKO Meeting. 10
2021-05-27	online	New horizons: emerging metadata standards and practices in the 21st century
2021-06-01	online	VocBench Workshops. 3: Vocabulary Versioning and data catalogue
2021-06-03/04	Chambéry	TOTh: Terminologie & ontologie: théories et applications. 15
2021-06-04	online	Dictionary Society of North America Conference. 23
2021-06-06/10	Hersonissos	European Semantic Web Conference. 2021
2021-06-16	online	ISKO Annual General Meeting
2021-06-16/18	Montpellier	Penser les categories de pensée. 2: Les titres
2021-07-09/11	Seattle	North American Symposium of KO. 2021
2021-07-15	online	KO and KM in Environment and Earth Observation
2021-08-00	online	IFLA World Library and Information Congress. 86
2021-08-00	Bangkok	Wikimania. 2021
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
2021-10-00	Amiens	French ISKO Conference. 13
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
2021-11-25/26	Lisbon	Spanish-Portuguese ISKO Conference. 5
2022-00-00	Dublin	IFLA World Library and Information Congress. 87
2022-07-04/06	Aalborg	International ISKO Conference. 17
2023-00-00	Lyon	French ISKO Conference. 14
2023-08-00	Rotterdam	IFLA World Library and Information Congress. 88