ISKO UK - International Society for Knowledge Organization

BLOGS, FORUMS
	LISZEN	Library & Information Science Search Engine
	LibWorm	The librarian RSS engine
	PageFlakes	Phil Bradley's list of librarian weblogs
	Catalogue&Index Blogspot
	Catalogablog
	Code4lib
	Information Research
	ISKO UK Blog
	IWRblog
	Lorcan Dempsey's blog
	MDA forum
	peterm.com
	Planet Cataloging
	Phil Bradley's Weblog
	ResourceShelf
	RSS4LIB

MAILING LISTS
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jiscmail
	ARCHIVES-NRA	Archivists, conservators and records managers
	BCS-EMPSG	British Computer Society -Electronic Publishing Specialist Group
	BCS-KIDMM	BCS- Knowledge, information, data and metadata management
	CETIS-METADATA	The JISC CETIS Metadata Special Interest Group
	DC-ARCHITECTURE	Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) architecture forum
	DC-GENERAL	Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) general list
	FISH	The Forum for Information Standards in Heritage (FISH)
	IR	IR represents the interests and activities of the BCS IRSG and related groups
	LIS-BAILER	Information and/or Library Studies in the UK
	LIS-FID	Federation for Information & Documentation
	LIS-LINK	A general Library and Information Science list for news and discussion
	TAXONOMY	Taxonomy
	VOCAB-HE	Controlled vocabularies, thesauri & classification schemes
	UDC-FORUM	Forum for Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) users, researchers, developers
yahoogroups
	FACETEDCLASSIFICATION	Discussion group on faceted classification
	TAXOCOP	American taxonomy discussion group
asis
	SIGCR-L	SIG Classification Research List
	SIGDL-L	SIG Digital Library List
	SIGKM-L	SIG Knowledge Management List
infoserv
	CLASS	Section on IFLA Classification and Indexing Standing Committee Mailing list
w3org
	PUBLIC-ESW-THES	Discussion relating to the design and development of SKOS

CONFERENCES

The International Calendar of Information Science Conferences
list of LIS orientated conferences maintained by Marian Dworaczek

ISKO CONFERENCES

2009	22-23 Jun	London	ISKO UK 2009 Conference - Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources
2008	5-8 Aug	Montréal	Tenth International ISKO Conference "Culture and Identity in Knowledge Organization"
	6-8 Feb	Konstanz	11. Tagung der Dt. ISKO Semantische Interoperabilität - Zukunft und Nachhaltigkeit
2007	3-5 Sep	Bangalore	ISKO India Conference: IKONE 2007
	22 Jul	Milan	3rd UniMIB ISKO Italy Meeting
	14-15 Jun	Toronto	North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO) Conference
	6-8 Jun	Toulouse	6th ISKO France Conference
	18-20 Apr	León	8th ISKO Spain Conference "Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity in the Organization of Scientific Knowledge"
	2006	Vienna	Ninth International ISKO Conference
	2006	Vienna	10th ISKO Germany Conference
	2005	Barcelona	ISKO Spain Conference [Proceedings]
	2004	London	Eight International ISKO Conference
	2004	Duisburg	9th ISKO Germany Conference
	2003
	2002	Granada	Seventh International ISKO Conference
	2002	Regensburg	8th ISKO Germany Conference
	2001	Berlin	7th ISKO Germany Conference
	2000	Toronto	Sixth International ISKO Conference
	1999	Hamburg	6th ISKO Germany Conference
	1998	Lille	Fifth International ISKO Conference
	1998	Moscow	ISKO Russia Conference
	1997	Berlin	5th ISKO Germany Conference
	1996	Washington	Fourth International ISKO Conference
	1996	Warsaw	TIP-ISKO Conference
	1995	Trier	4th ISKO Germany Conference
	1995	Moscow	ISKO Russia Conference
	1994	Copenhagen	Third International ISKO Conference
	1994	Bratislava	European ISKO Conference
	1993	Weilburg	3rd ISKO Germany Conference
	1993	Moscow	ISKO Russia Conference
	1992	Madras	Second International ISKO Conference
	1991	Weilburg	2nd ISKO Germany Conference
	1991	Bratislava	Czechoslovakian ISKO Conference
	1990	Darmstadt	First International ISKO Conference

PROJECTS

Application for funding

EU Research Funding

CORDIS: Community Research & Development Information Service

EU Information Society Technologies - ICT Work Programme under FP7 : Cultural Heritage [Closing date of the call is 8 May 2007]

Projects

LIMES - Library Information Management Employability Skills

Project Reports

Terminology Services and Technology: JISC state of the art review

TEL-ME-MOR (The European Library): Report on subject access tools (January 2006)

CETIS Vocabulary Project - Pedagogical vocabularies project reports (December 2005)

Developing the UK's e-infrastructure for science and innovation(2004)

STANDARDS

International Standards Organization

Freely Available ISO Standards

ISO Standard 15836-2003 Information and documentation — The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set

BSi - British Standards

Structured vocabularies for information retrieval — Guide — Part 1: Definitions, symbols and abbreviations / British Standards Institution. - London : BSI, 2005. - 9p. ; 30cm. - (BS 8723-1:2005) - ISBN 0 580 46798 8.

Structured vocabularies for information retrieval — Guide — Part 2: Thesauri / British Standards Institution. - London : BSI, 2005. - 59p. ; 30cm. - (BS 8723-2:2005) - ISBN 0 580 46799 6.

Vocabularies other than thesauri — Part 3 / British Standards Institution. - London : BSI, 2007. - 44p. ; 30cm. - (BS 8723-3:2007) - ISBN 978 0 580 53862 9.

Interoperability between vocabularies — Part 4 / British Standards Institution. - London : BSI, 2007. - 55p. ; 30cm. - (BS 8723-4:2007) - ISBN 978 0 580 53863 6.

In preparation: Part 5: Interoperation between vocabularies and other components of information storage and retrieval systems

NISO 39.19 - Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and management of Monolingual Thesauri

METADATA

Metadata Crosswalks - D-lib article: A Repository of Metadata Crosswalks

METS - Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard

DCMES Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (ISO 15836;NISO 39.85)

OAI PMH - The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

Libraries

FRBR - Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report

FRANAR - Functional Requirements for Authority Records: A Conceptual Model

ISBD (1969) - International Standard Bibliographic Description - under review

AACR2 - Anglo American Cataloguing Rules

MARC21

UNIMARC

MADS - Metadata Authority Description Schema

MODS - Metadata Object Description Schema

Z39 Profiles

Museums

CIDOC CRM- Conceptual Reference Model

CIMI - Standards Framework for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information

AMICO - Art Museum Image Consortium - Data Specification

SPECTRUM

MIDAS - the Monument Inventory Data Standard

Museum Metadata Crosswalks

Archives

EAD - Encoded Archival Description

E-learning

IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) : Learning Object Metadata - IEEE

IMS Learning Resource Meta-data Specification

IMS Content Packaging

IMS Question & Test Interoperability Information Model Specification (QTI)

The UK LOM Core

Publishing

Metadata standards for ebook (2000)

ONIX - ONIX ONline Information eXchange

Geospatial

Geospatial Metadata Standards

FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee edorsed standards

E-government

E-government Metadata Standard (e-GMS)

CONTROLLED VOCABULARIES/TERMINOLOGY EXCHANGE

ISO 12200:1999 MAchine-Readable Terminology Interchange Format (MARTIF)

Open Lexicon Interchange Format (OLIF)

ISO 16642 Terminological Markup Framework: TMF Project

MARC 21 Concise Format for Classification Data

Concise UNIMARC Classification Format(draft)

Zthes: a Z39.50 Profile for Thesaurus Navigation

ISO/IEC 13250:2000 Topic Maps, XML Topic Maps (XTM) 1.0

DAML - The DARPA Agent Markup Language

The Ontology Inference Layer (OIL)

Web Ontology Language (OWL)

SHOE Simple HTML Ontology extension

SKOS- Simple Knowledge Organization System

The Vocabulary Markup Language (Voc-ML)

KVO Knowledge Visualization and Odering

KIF- Knowledge Interchange Format

KQML - Knowledge Query and Manipulation Language

CONTROLLED VOCABULARIES

		Taxonomy Warehouse
		Lexical and Classification Resources
		Controlled vocabulary.Com
		Thesauri and Controlled Vocabularies
		Controlled vocabularies
		Becta vocabulary bank
		ESD-standards - controlled lists and associated data standards used in the United Kingdom public sector
		Controlled vocabularies at NKS-MDR - National Knowledge Service Metadata Registry
		Controlled vocabularies, thesauri and classification systems available in the WWW by T. Koch
Classifications
	universal
		BC2 - Bliss Bibliographic Classification 2nd ed. [outline]
		BSO - Broad System of Ordering Outline - [full schedules]
		CC - Colon Classification [outline]
		DDC - Dewey Decimal Classification - [Summaries ; WebDewey through OCLC Connexion ]
		EC - Cutter Expansive Classification [outline]
		LCC - Library of Congress Classification - [outline; LCC online through Classification Web]
		UDC - Universal Decimal Classification - [ outline; BSI UDC online; Czech UDC online; Swedish]
	special
		ACM Computing Classification System
		AIP PACS American Institute of Physics: Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme
		AMS MSC - American Mathematical Society: Mathematical Subject Classification
		ICONCLASS (art, images)
		The IET - Inspec Classification
		IUFRO GFDC - Global Forest Decimal Classification
		NLM - National Library of Medicine Classification




		ESD-standards - controlled lists and associated data standards used in the United Kingdom public sector
		LGCS - Local Government Classification Scheme
		IPSV - Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary (thesaurus and classification scheme)

Thesauri
		Australian Pictorial Thesaurus (APT)
		AAT - Art and Architecture Thesaurus
		British Education Thesaurus
		British Museum Materials Thesaurus
		British Object Names Thesaurus
		European Education Thesaurus
		EUROVOC
		HASSET - Humanities And Social Science Electronic Thesaurus
		IPSV - Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary (thesaurus and classification scheme)
		MDA Arechaeological Objects Thesaurus
Subject headings
		LCSH - Library of Congress Subject Headings [Principles; LCSH through Library of Congress Authorities]
		MeSH - Medical Subject Headings [MeSH Browser]