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

The remaining 2021 issues of KO are in production and going to be available within early 2022
International ISKO conference call for papers is published

Recently published (older)

KO journal Knowledge organization. 48. Issue 2 mailed to ISKO members (volumes >3 years old OA)
Genre and Libraries, archived and museums (LAM) (ISKO Encyclopedia of KO)
Knowledge organization literature 2021 Issue 3-4
conference outputs JOWO: The Joint Ontology Workshops. 2021
Subject to change (WLIC SAA)
KOS LRM elements set as RDF
report Taxonomies are metadata
report A termino-ontological resource in viral diseases
paper IKOS Bulletin. 3.1
paper ICD 11: an international classification of diseases for the 21st century (BMC MIDM)
paper Towards knowledge organization ecosystem (CCQ)
paper L'ordine dei libri: divagazioni su Come ordinare una biblioteca di R Calasso (AIBS)
book Linking knowledge: linked open data for KO and visualization

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

2021-11-29/12-03	Madrid	Metadata and Semantics Research Conference. 15
2021-12-02	online	KOS Workshops. Introduction to Universal Decimal Classification. 2
2021-12-03	online	Cataloguing and classification ethics
2021-12-08	online	Jack Mills Lecture. 2021: "Hospitable and flexible": reclassification and critical librarianship
2021-12-09	online	KOS Workshops. Introduction to Universal Decimal Classification. 3
2021-12-10	Paris	Terminology, interoperability and data integration
2021-12-10	Verona	AssITerm. 31: la terminologia e le sfide delle digital humanities
2021-12-14/15	online	Brazilian ISKO Conference. 6
2021-12-17	online	KO and digital humanities. 4
2022-01-06	online	KOS Workshops. Practical thesaurus construction. 1
2022-01-13	online	KOS Workshops. Practical thesaurus construction. 2
2022-01-20	online	KOS Workshops. Practical thesaurus construction. 3
2022-05-29/06-01	Oslo	CoLIS: Conceptions of library and information science. 11
2022-06-08/10	Palaiseau	Grapholinguistics in the 21th century: from graphemes to knowledge. 3
2022-06-20/24	Cologne	Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. 2022
2022-07-06/08	Aalborg	International ISKO Conference. 17
2022-07-24/28	Dublin	IFLA World Library and Information Congress. 87
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