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 6 mailed to ISKO members (issues >3 YO OA at Nomos eLibrary)
H.E. Bliss and Classification in Greco-Roman antiquity (ISKO Encyclopedia of KO)
Knowledge organization literature 2019 Issue 3-4
conference outputs Spanish-Portuguese ISKO Conference. 4
Seoul NKOS Workshop (JDIS)
KOS Colon Classification in Wikidata
report Terminotics: a computational approach to terminology (TermCoord)
report 国际知识组织学会 = ISKO (Baidu Encyclopedia)
paper S[ubject] indexing of musical resources: the Application of the Nuovo Soggettario system (JLIS.it)
paper The nature of browsing (JASIST)
paper OntoAndalus: an ontology of Islamic artefacts for terminological purposes (SWJ)
paper Innovative ideas by some post-WWII francophone classificationists (LCN)
book Cutter-Sanborn: Three-Figure Author Table

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

2020-10-29	online	KO-ED. Subject headings: a word-based approach to organization and retrieval
2020-11-05	online	KO-ED. General principles underlying KOSs
2020-11-12	online	KO-ED. Faceted classification
2020-11-14/15	Tbilisi	International Conference on Terminology. 2
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	Chambéry	Terminology & ontology: theory and applications. 14
2020-11-26	online	KO-ED. From concepts to KOSs
2020-11-30/12-04	online	Metadata and semantics research. 14
2020-12-03	online	KO-ED. What is a thesaurus? How and why so?
2020-12-07/10	online	CIDOC Conference. 2020
2020-12-10	online	KO-ED. How should today's thesaurus earn its keep?
2020-12-12	Barcelona	Cognitive aspects of the lexicon. 6
2020-12-12/13	Barcelona	Joint conference on Lexical and computational semantics. 9
2021-00-00	Amiens	French ISKO Conference. 13
2021-00-00	Bangkok	Wikimania. 2020
2021-00-00	Ottawa	DCMI International Conference on Metadata. 2021
2021-03-01/03	London	Taxonomy Boot Camp London. 2021
2021-05-14	Cremona	Italian ISKO Meeting. 10
2021-07-00	Lisbon	Spanish-Portuguese ISKO Conference. 5
2021-07-04/10	Bertinoro	International Semantic Web Conference. 2021
2021-07-12/16	online	UK ISKO Conference. 2021: KO in exceptional times
2021-08-00	online	IFLA World Library and Information Congress. 86
2021-09-06/09	Amsterdam	International Conference on Semantic Systems. 16
2021-09-13/16	Bolzano	Formal Ontology in Information Systems. 2020
2022-00-00	Dublin	IFLA World Library and Information Congress. 87
2022-07-00	Aalborg	International ISKO Conference. 17
2023-00-00	Lyon	French ISKO Conference. 14
2023-08-00	Rotterdam	IFLA World Library and Information Congress. 88

I S K O

International Society for Knowledge Organization

Recently published (older)

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