The fourth ISKO UK KOnnecting KOmmunities event entitled Semantic Analysis Technology: in search of categories, concepts & content took place on 3rd November 2008, at University College London. Over one hundred participants attended.
We heard presentations by Luca Scagliarini of Expert System, Jeremy Bentley of SmartLogic, Rob Lee of Rattle Research and a joint presentation by BBC information architects Helen Lippell, Karen Loasby and Silver Oliver.
Talks represented different approaches in text processing and advanced techniques in automatic resource indexing that help resolve ambiguities in content searching and semantic linking.
Presentation slides and audio recordings are available from the the event's website.
Call for papers is now open for Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources, the first biennial Conference of the British Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization - ISKO UK.
The event will provide a rare opportunity for researchers, practitioners and innovators from all sectors to share ideas on the opportunities and challenges implicit in the digitization and networking of diverse information resources. 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 will address issues in the organization and integration of text, images, data and voice - multimedia and multilingual.
Over the past year ISKO UK has attracted large and lively audiences of content and information architects, website developers, knowledge engineers, information managers and many others to its afternoon meeting series . The conference aims to extend this wide audience to ensure that all aspects of knowledge organization are represented.
Papers on the conference themes are invited from the academic and practitioner communities and may present research, case studies or even success stories!
To read more about the conference and to submit your abstract, go to the conference website.
The Sharing Vocabularies on the Web via SKOS event, the third ISKO UK KOnnecting KOmmunities event organized in cooperation with the School of Library Archives and Information Studies at UCL, took place on Monday 21 July and was attended by 94 participants.
The programme included five themes presented by eight speakers from the forefront of SKOS development and implementation: Alistair Miles, Antoine Isaac, Stella Dextre Clarke, Leonard Will, Nicolas Cochard, Ceri Binding, Douglas Tudhope and Bernard Vatant.
The afternoon represented a refreshing step forward in thinking through the more powerful application of controlled vocabularies. A lively discussion enabled all to develop their own thinking on the opportunities to share and even generate new information through the combination of linked information resources and the vocabularies supporting them.
Presentations are now available at the event's page, and recordings of the talks will be available shortly.
The Agenda for Information Retrieval event was organized in conjuction with the School of Library Archives and Information Studies at UCL, and was attended by 91 participants.
Three eminent speakers: Brian Vickery, Stephen Robertson and Ian Rowlands, addressed issues that have been on the information retrieval agenda from the 1950s to the era of Google. The talks were followed by a lively and stimulating discussion chaired by Stella Dextre-Clarke.
We are grateful to Conrad Taylor, co-ordinator of the BCS KIDMM (Knowledge, Information, Data and Metadata Management) community, for recording and photographing the event.
Presentations and recordings of the talks are now available at the event's page.
Please mark your calendars for the ISKO UK event entitled Sharing Vocabularies on the Web via Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) which will take place on 21 July 2008 at University College London.
Predictions for the Semantic Web are heavily dependent on the ability of
computers to reason and communicate using controlled vocabularies. SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) development aims to bring forward these capabilities.
Aware of the growing importance of SKOS, ISKO UK in cooperation with School of Library, Archives and Information Studies at UCL has invited a group of experts to introduce this standard, explain its status, potential and scope. Our speakers are involved in the development and application of SKOS and related standards and are hoping to provoke some interesting discussion.
This event, the third in ISKO UK's KOnnecting KOmmunities series, promises a fascinating glimpse of the future of controlled vocabularies. No one involved or interested in the development, management or implementation of controlled vocabularies can afford to miss it. Please do join us.
Read more and book your place on the event's page.
We would like to invite you to the next ISKO UK open meeting entitled Agenda for Information Retrieval to be held on 26 June 2008 at University College London.
Searching, browsing, and other routes to information are no longer the preserve of information professionals; they are on every desktop, at the fingertips of almost anybody. “Search” has become part of the everyday lifestyle.
Three eminent speakers Brian Vickery, Stephen Robertson and Ian Rowlands will address the issues that have dominated the information retrieval agenda since the 1950s, and still present challenges and opportunities for the future.
Read more and book your place on the event's page.
An ISKO UK open meeting entitled Confronting the Future took place on 5th of March. In 2008, ISKO UK plans more events on specific topics in knowledge organisation. For the first meeting of the year, however, it was felt that general issues within the information profession as seen from the perspective of different sectors may be welcomed. The floor was given to speakers from two professional organizations: Peter Griffiths from the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals and Paul Dodgson from the Records Management Society.
The presentations and mp3 recordings of the talks are available on the events page.
