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Advances in Knowledge Organization (AKO)

ISSN: 0938-5495

Managing Editor (2019-): Daniel Martínez-Ávila

Advances in Knowledge Organization (AKO) is an official publication series that presents the peer-reviewed proceedings of the biennial international ISKO conferences. The series showcases original contributions in the field of knowledge organization, reflecting ongoing theoretical, methodological, and applied research.

Each volume in the series corresponds to a specific ISKO conference and gathers scholarly papers centered around the event's main theme. These themes typically address the conceptual foundations, technological developments, and socio-cultural dimensions of organizing knowledge. The series covers a wide range of topics, including classification systems, ontologies, thesauri, metadata structures, indexing languages, and innovations in digital knowledge representation.

AKO functions as a recognized scholarly platform for researchers and professionals across disciplines such as information science, archival science, library studies, linguistics, philosophy, and computing. It promotes critical discussion and the development of models, methods, and tools that support the structured organization and retrieval of knowledge.

The series is released regularly following each ISKO conference and is available in both physical and digital formats. While earlier volumes were widely indexed, more recent editions continue to circulate actively within academic and professional communities. AKO is often consulted in research, teaching, and professional practice related to knowledge organization.

Over time, Advances in Knowledge Organization have contributed significantly to documenting the development of the field and its responses to changing technological, epistemological, and cultural contexts.

The proceedings from 2012 to 2024 are available from Nomos eLibrary. Since 2026 the proceedings are published in a new website.

Published AKO volumes

Fugmann, R. (Ed.). (1990). Tools for knowledge organization and the human interface: Proceedings of the 1st International ISKO Conference (Darmstadt, Germany, August 14-17, 1990). Advances in knowledge organization, no. 1/2. Frankfurt/Main: Indeks.
Negrini, G., Farnesi, T., & Benediktsson, D. (Eds.). (1990). Documentary languages and databases: Papers from the Rome conference (Rome, Italy, December 3-4, 1990). Advances in knowledge organization, no. 3. Frankfurt/Main: Indeks.
Albrechtsen, H., & Ørnager, S. (Eds.). (1994). Knowledge organization and quality management: Proceedings of the Third International ISKO Conference (Copenhagen, Denmark, June 20-24, 1994). Advances in knowledge organization, no. 4. Frankfurt/Main: Indeks.
Green, R. (Ed.). (1996). Knowledge organization and change: Proceedings of the Fourth International ISKO Conference (Washington, DC, July 15-18, 1996). Advances in knowledge organization, no. 5. Frankfurt/Main: Indeks.
Mustafa El Hadi, W., Maniez, J., & Pollitt, A. S. (Eds.). (1998). Structures and relations in knowledge organization: Proceedings of the Fifth International ISKO Conference (Lille, France, August 25-29, 1998). Advances in knowledge organization, no. 6. Würzburg: Ergon.
Beghtol, C., Howarth, L., & Williamson, N. J. (Eds.). (2000). Dynamism and stability in knowledge organization: Proceedings of the Sixth International ISKO Conference (Toronto, Canada, July 10-13, 2000). Advances in knowledge organization, no. 7. Würzburg: Ergon.
López-Huertas, M. J. (Ed.). (2002). Challenges in knowledge representation and organization for the 21st century: Integration of knowledge across boundaries: Proceedings of the Seventh International ISKO Conference (Granada, Spain, July 10-13, 2002). Advances in knowledge organization, no. 8. Würzburg: Ergon.
McIlwaine, I. C. (Ed.). (2004). Knowledge organization and the global information society: Proceedings of the Eighth International ISKO Conference (London, England, July 13-16, 2004). Advances in knowledge organization, no. 9. Würzburg: Ergon.
Budin, G., Swertz, C., & Mitgutsch, K. (Eds.). (2006). Knowledge organization for a global learning society: Proceedings of the Ninth International ISKO Conference (Vienna, Austria, July 4-7, 2006). Advances in knowledge organization, no. 10. Würzburg: Ergon.
Arsenault, C., & Tennis, J. T. (Eds.). (2008). Culture and identity in knowledge organization: Proceedings of the Tenth International ISKO Conference (Montréal, Canada, August 5-8, 2008). Advances in knowledge organization, no. 11. Würzburg: Ergon.
Gnoli, C., & Mazzocchi, F. (Eds.). (2010). Paradigms and conceptual systems in knowledge organization: Proceedings of the Eleventh International ISKO Conference (Rome, Italy, February 23-26, 2010). Advances in knowledge organization, no. 12. Würzburg: Ergon.
Neelameghan, A., & Raghavan, K. S. (Eds.). (2012). Categories, contexts and relations in knowledge organization: Proceedings of the Twelfth International ISKO Conference (Mysore, India, August 6-9, 2012). Advances in knowledge organization, no. 13. Würzburg: Ergon.
Babik, W. (Ed.). (2014). Knowledge organization in the 21st century: between historical patterns and future prospects: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International ISKO Conference (Kraków, Poland, May 19-22, 2014). Advances in knowledge organization, no. 14. Würzburg: Ergon.
Chaves Guimarães, J.A. – Oliveira Milani, S. – Dodebei, V. (Eds.). (2016). Knowledge organization for a sustainable world: challenges and perspectives for cultural, scientific, and technological sharing in a connected society. Proceedings of the Fourteenth International ISKO Conference (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 27-29, 2016). Advances in knowledge organization, no. 15. Würzburg: Ergon.
Fernanda Ribeiro - Maria Elisa Cerveira (Eds.). (2018). Challenges and Opportunities for Knowledge Organization in the Digital Age: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International ISKO Conference 9-11 July 2018 Porto, Portugal. Advances in knowledge organization, no. 16. Baden-Baden: Ergon.
Lykke, M. - Svarre, T. - Skov, N. - Martínez-Ávila, D. (Eds.). (2020). Knowledge Organization at the Interface: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International ISKO Conference, 2020, Aalborg, Denmark. Advances in knowledge organization, no. 17. Baden-Baden: Ergon.
Folino, A. - Guarasci, R. (Eds.) (2022). Knowledge Organization and Management in the Domain of Environment and Earth Observation (KOMEEO): Proceedings of the International KOMEEO Conference 2021, Rende, Italy. Baden-Baden: Ergon. Available at https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/79351.
Lykke, M. - Svarre, T. - Haynes, D. - Skov, M. Thellefsen, M. - Martínez-Ávila D. (Eds.). (2022). Knowledge Organization across Disciplines, Domains, Services, and Technologies: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International ISKO Conference, 2022, Aalborg, Denmark. Advances in knowledge organization, no. 19. Baden-Baden: Ergon.
Lu, W. - Barros, T.H.B. - An, L. - Martínez-Ávila, D. (Eds.). (2024). Knowledge Organization for Resilience in Times of Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities: Proceedings of the Eighteen International ISKO Conference, 2024, Wuhan, China. Advances in knowledge organization, no. 20. Baden-Baden: Ergon.

Regional proceedings

Several regional ISKO conferences also publish proceedings, either online or in print. German ISKO conference proceedings are published in the series Fortschritte in der Wissensorganisation by Ergon Verlag, ISSN: 0942-0347.

Knowledge Organization in Subject Areas (KOSA)

Stanciková, P., & Dahlberg, I. (Eds.). (1994). Environmental knowledge organization and information management: Proceedings of the First European ISKO Conference (Bratislava, Slovakia, September 14-16, 1994). Knowledge organization in subject areas, no. 1. Frankfurt am Main: Indeks.

Textbooks for Knowledge Organization

ISSN: 0944-8152

A series of monographs including:

Vol. 1: Subject analysis and indexing: theoretical foundation and practical advice, by Robert Fugmann, Indeks Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993
Vol. 2: Classificatory structures: concepts, relations and representation, by Hemalata Iyer, Indeks Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995
Vol. 3: Wissensorganisation; Entwicklung, Aufgabe, Anwendung, Zukunft, by Ingetraut Dahlberg, Ergon, Würzburg 2014

Knowledge Organization

For detailed information about ISKO's official journal, please see the separate page on Knowledge Organization.