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 and everyone interested in this topic is invited to attend. 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 Department of 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.
Important themes running through the "Content Architecture" Conference include:
- Integration and semantic interoperability between diverse resources – text, images, audio, multimedia
- Social networking and user participation in knowledge structuring
- Image retrieval
- Information architecture, metadata and faceted frameworks
For more details, see the preliminary programme.
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.
