We would like to invite you to the next ISKO UK open meeting to be held on 23 April 2009, at University College London.
David Snowden will give a talk entitled "Human-Machine Symbiosis for Data Interpretation" followed by a panel discussion. The talk will be preceded by the ISKO UK Annual General Meeting to which all potential members are also invited.
Tea will be provided, and there will be drinks and an opportunity for networking. We hope that it will be an enjoyable afternoon and are looking forward to seeing you at this ISKO UK event.
Cost: 10 GBP (students and ISKO members free)
To book your place go to the event's website.
The first ISKO UK conference "Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources" will be held in London, 22-23 June 2009.
To take advantage of the early bird discount (to 31st March), register as soon as you can on the conference website at http://www.iskouk.org/conf2009/index.htm.
The complete programme is now available at http://www.iskouk.org/conf2009/programme.htm.
As keynote speakers we have: Prof. David Crystal, the renowned author, linguist and broadcaster, talking about semantic targeting; Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, on the subject of e-Research and New Challenges in Knowledge Structuring.
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.
