ISKO UK is sorry to announce the death of Jack Mills, on 9 July 2010, at his home in London, at the age of 91.
Jack had a long and distinguished career as a professional librarian, academic, teacher and researcher, and, for the last 40 years, as Editor of the Bliss Bibliographic Classification, Second Edition (BC2). In recent years his work had been marked by the award of an Honorary Fellowship of CILIP, and the Tony Keny Strix award for services to information retrieval. He was also honoured by the (then) American Society for Information Science as one of a handful of British information professionals nominated as 'Pioneers of Information Science'.
His death was unexpected and peaceful, sitting in his garden at home, and, as usual, he had been working on BC2 during the day. A fuller tribute will appear here, and in Knowledge Organization.
A date to mark in your calendar: ISKO UK is organizing a one-day seminar on Linked Data on 14th September. Ten speakers from five countries will discuss and illustrate the application of linked data in various domains. The preliminary programme and booking form are available at the event's website.
Seeing is Believing: New Technologies for Cultural Heritage, ISKO UK event that took place on 9th June 2010 at University College London. This was yet another successful meeting attended by over 90 participants. The afternoon offered a fascinating and mutually complementary suite of talks that covered topics ranging from how to capture 3D representations of precious artefacts in order to improve access to mass audiences without the damage caused by physical handling, to how crowdsourcing can harness the enthusiasm of online communities to improve collections, speed digitisation, and enhance metadata. A range of questions about privacy, community, and how we relate to both the most precious and the most trivial things in our lives was prompted by the description of the Tales of Things project, which uses the geolocatory power of RFID and QR codes to allow people to add their memories to objects via the website. This event was organized in cooperation with the UCL Department for Information Studies and refreshment was sponsored by Gallery Systems. Outputs are available on the event page.
Knowledge Organization the latest issue! Table of content of the Knowledge Organization, 37 volume, issue 2 (Special Issue: A Festschrift for Clare Beghtol) is available online.
In cooperation with the German National Library, the Cologne University of Applied Sciences organizes the conference Concepts in Context: Cologne Conference on Interoperability and Semantics in Knowledge Organization - July 19th and 20th, 2010. Venue: Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany. The event is free of charge. To read more go to the event's website.
The last ISKO UK meeting entitled "Recording the Living World" took place on 30 March 2010. Over 40 attendees listened to two very interesting talks by Diane Tough and Graham Higley about the projects at the Natural History Museum in London. Presentations and recordings of the talks are available on the event page.
ISKO UK (in cooperation with the UCL Department for Information Studies) would like to invite you to our meeting "Recording the Living World" that will take place on 30 March 2010. Three invited speakers will tell us about projects undertaken by the Natural History Museum, liberating data about all living species to the public as well as to scientists. The data painstakingly collected over centuries by naturalists and other scientists are being released from their institution archives, made available in rejuvenated catalogues and published on the Web. To read more and to book your place go to the event page.
We are very sorry to announce the death of Professor Brian Vickery on October 17th 2009, shortly after his 91st birthday.
Brian was an enormously influential figure in the field of classification and information retrieval, a powerful force in
the development of faceted classification and retrieval theory, and a prolific writer and researcher throughout his life.
A founder member of the Classification Research Group, he served as a practising librarian, research director at Aslib,
and Director of the School of Library and Archive Studies at UCL. He was made an honorary member of ISKO UK in 2008 to
acknowledge his tremendous contribution to our field. ISKO UK members will feel privileged to have heard the masterly
address he gave at the June 2008 meeting. A fuller appreciation will appear at the ISKO UK website shortly.
Conference outputs: Classification at a Crossroads. The International UDC Seminar 2009 entitled "Classification at a Crossroads - multiple directions to usability" took place in the Koninklijke Bibiotheek
in The Hague on 29-30 October 2009. There were 135 delegates in attendance from 32 countries.
Slides and mp3 recordings of these and the other twenty talks are now available from the conference website.
The ISKO UK Seminar Records and Information Management in Transition will take place on 16 September at University College London.
To see the full programme and to book your place go to the event's website.
This half-day seminar is organized in cooperation with the UCL Department for Information Studies.
The first ISKO UK Conference Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources" took place on 22-23 June 2009 at University College London.
Abstracts and papers can be viewed from the conference website and presentations and recordings will be available shortly.
