ISKO UK Conference 2009
In our networked world, enabling easy access to multiple services and resources is often reliant on a team effort involving specialists from very different backgrounds – website design, knowledge engineering, audio and video engineering, linguistics, computer science, etc. This Conference aims to bring together people from all the diverse specialisms that contribute to integrated information systems and services. It will take place on 22-23 June 2009, in London.
It is the first biennial Conference of the British Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO UK) entitled "Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources", and is organized in cooperation with the School of Library, Archives and Information Studies, University College London. Among the highlights will be keynote addresses from Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, and Professor David Crystal, the renowned author, linguist and broadcaster.
The conference follows a series of highly successful afternoon meetings that have attracted upwards of 100 people from different communities working in the knowledge and information arena. The opportunity for dialogue between practitioners and researchers is proving very popular, and will be reinforced in ISKO UK 2009.
This “Content Architecture” Conference will provide a forum for discussing the problems and opportunities arising from the growing digitization and networking of information resources. The Conference will address issues in the handling of text and images, as well as data, voice and language, particularly in the context of the integration of different information resources. Consequently, we will expect to attract those working in the areas of metadata and terminology, interoperability and integration, analysis and synthesis, and delivery of new forms of products and services, not forgetting the challenges of the Semantic Web.
Papers are now invited from the academic and practitioner communities dealing with research, case studies – even success stories! See Call for Papers.