ISKO UK Meetups are dedicated to discussing and debating a broad range of topics relating to knowledge organization. Throughout 2022, monthly ISKO UK Meetups are being organized as virtual events through the Knowledge Organization London group.
ISKO UK Meetup events provide an opportunity for specialists from different information domains and industries to share their experiences and exchange ideas and solutions for improving access to information and knowledge.
Whether physical or online, Meetup events provide an informal and friendly atmosphere and encourage interactions and networking between different professions sharing an interest in knowledge organization.
You can join Meetup.com - Knowledge Organization London group to receive updates and notifications about ISKO UK Meetups events and register for attendance.
Tuesday, 12 July 2022 |
Vocabs Editor and Taxonomies for Confluence by Phil Stacey and Eugene Morozov Short talks showcasing developments in knowledge organization tooling. Phil will talk about Vocabs Editor, a service to create, edit and export SKOS controlled vocabularies in an efficient and user-friendly manner. Eugene will talk about Taxonomies for Confluence, a Confluence add-on that lets you classify pages and blog posts using SKOS controlled vocabularies and integrate Confluence content into knowledge graphs. |
Tuesday, 13 September 2022 |
Knowledge Graph Tools by Paul Appleby Details to be confirmed |
Tuesday, 11 October 2022 |
British Ecological Society case study by Nike Brown Details to be confirmed |
For a complete list of past events see here.
Tuesday, 14 June 2022 |
Why graphs? The limits of hierarchical thinking by Bob Kasenchak Why would a taxonomist interrogate the limitations of hierarchical thinking and information organization? Graphs offer more specific and flexible structures to model relationships between objects. This basic change of frame reflects more accurately the way humans understand information, provides flexible and extensible modelling options, and usurps existing (tree-based, or arboreal) power and information structures in favour of a decentralized, democratized information environment with no beginning and no end. |
Tuesday, 10 May 2022 |
The Evolution of UX Strategy by Jaime Levy Have you ever wondered aloud, what the hell is UX Strategy? Well Jaime Levy, the author of the O’Reilly Media best-selling book UX Strategy is coming with a long ranty answer. User experience (UX) strategy lies at the intersection of UX design and business strategy. This talk delves into the evolution of the term over the last 15 years and how it has taken on new meaning. Jaime will also provide a high-level overview of the product/UX strategy techniques that make up her methodology. Please come with good cheer and questions. |
Tuesday, 12 April 2022 |
Keywording Creative Content by Clemency Wright This presentation explores the key methodologies and strategies employed when Keywording creative content. We’ll see how Keywording relates to content classification and content retrieval. We’ll look at illustrated examples and learn about real-life case studies, and how organisation employ creative Keywording practices. There is a focus on conceptual Keywording and the impact this has for today’s brands and visual communications. This presentation introduces the practical skills required to harness conceptual keywords, optimise access to assets, and target more users with relevant content. The key principles of Relevance, Accuracy and Consistency will be discussed alongside visual examples, to achieve the key learning outcomes. |
Tuesday, 8 March 2022 |
Basic steps in creation of structured vocabulary by Leonard Will When creating a structured vocabulary, in addition to the technical and intellectual considerations about defining concepts and their relationships, there are management aspects that have to be resolved. Why do you think that a structured vocabulary is needed? What resources will it give access to? Who will use it, at the input and output stages? What kind of structure will be appropriate? What software will it use? Who will maintain it? These matters are dealt with in clause 13 of the international standard ISO 25964-1:2011, which this talk will summarise to encourage participants to answer these questions for themselves. |
Tuesday, 22 February 2022 |
E-commerce Search is Broken - How to Fix it With Open Source Software by Charlie Hull The simple truth is that if you can't find it, you won't buy it - but in that case why do so many e-commerce websites fail at the basics of search, with irrelevant or even zero results for the simplest of queries? Charlie will show examples of search failures and introduce Chorus, an open source reference implementation for powerful and relevant search that can be swiftly tuned to fix common e-commerce search issues. |
Tuesday, 25 January 2022 |
The Evolving Role of Metadata
by David Haynes David Haynes will talk about ways in which metadata’s role in the digital economy is changing. In his book "Metadata for information management and Retrieval" he talks about the six purposes of metadata. Some areas such as information retrieval are due a re-think and other areas such as information governance are becoming more critical. |
Tuesday, 23 November 2021 |
ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup: Introduction to Wikibase
by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai, Georgina Burnett, Phil Stacey and Eugene Morozov |
Tuesday, 19 October 2021 |
Coping with Complexity: Building a Knowledge Graph for UK Parliament by Anya Somerville and Michael Smethurst |
Copyright in a Knowledge Organization Workplace by Stephen Garfield |
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Tuesday, 06 July 2021 |
On the Pre-history of Information Technology by Stephen Robertson |
Tuesday, 15 June 2021 |
Semantic Tagging and Text Classification for Archives and Content Systems
by Chris Newell. Many archives and content production systems suffer from a lack of comprehensive content metadata. This presentation describes work to overcome this using automated text tagging and classification tools which can be applied to text documents, video subtitles or speech-to-text transcripts. |
Tuesday, 01 June 2021 |
ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup: VocBench Workshops: Part 3: VocBench Vocabulary Versioning and Data Catalogue by Armando Stellato, Phil Stacey and Eugene Morozov In this last interactive workshop in the VocBench series, we'll talk about managing versions of your vocabulary. We'll provide an instance for all participants to get the first-hand experience - you'll be able to use a preloaded vocabulary to play along or bring your own. |
Tuesday, 25 May 2021 |
MS Teams – The Case for Information Architecture and Governance Presentation by Metataxis. This presentation seeks to address the issues and challenges organisations and information managers are facing with the introduction of MS teams, providing practical advice on how to address them, focusing on the developing a robust information architecture and governance . |
Tuesday, 04 May 2021 |
ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup: VocBench Workshops: Part 2: VocBench Data Import with Sheet2RDF by Armando Stellato, Phil Stacey and Eugene Morozov In this second interactive workshop, we'll talk about importing existing vocabularies into VocBench. We'll use both standard format and Sheet2RDF feature. You'll be able to play along using the provided data. If you manage your vocabulary in a spreadsheet, you can bring it along, and we'll see what we can do! |
Tuesday, 20 Apr 2021 |
Beyond the Hero's Journey
by Paul Rissen Drawing upon the work of screenwriting experts, critics and academics, as well as seven years of experience with narrative online, this talk will demystify the process of crafting a narrative, showing how information architecture and structured thinking can help us make sense of the stories we tell ourselves every day. |
Tuesday, 06 April 2021 |
ISKO UK Hands-on Meetup: VocBench Workshops: Part 1: Introducing VocBench by Armando Stellato, Phil Stacey and Eugene Morozov "Introducing VocBench" is the first workshops in which speakers will present VocBench and explain the basics. A VocBench instance will be created to provide participants with a first-hand experience. Participants will be able to use preloaded vocabulary or bring their own. An open Q&A session is arranged to give participants an opportunity to ask questions and share their experience with VocBench. |
Tuesday, 23 March 2021 |
Going Virtual with Taxonomy Boot Camp London by Helen Lippell and Kat Allen from Taxonomy Boot Camp London This was a very different talk from what might have been if we'd been asked in 2019. The call for papers for TBCL 2020 was sent out early last year, just as worrying news about the novel coronavirus were emerging. Boot Camp has been running since 2016 (and its US sister event for over a decade). The last year has been unlike any other. We explained how we have adapted to changing circumstances to create an online version of our friendly and intensive conference. |
Searching Fast and Slow: Exploring Alternative Approaches to Search for Knowledge Workers In this Meetup, Dr Tony Russell-Rose considers knowledge workers such as information professionals, legal researchers and librarians and their requirements to create and execute search strategies that are comprehensive, transparent, and reproducible. |
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Email and MS Teams From an Information Architecture Perspective In this Meetup, James Lappin has explored what strategies towards email will best enable information professionals to make a positive contribution to how messages are managed, protected and exploited as a knowledge resource. James Lappin has spent over twenty years working in the field of archives and records management. He has provided consultancy advice for UK Parliament as well as the Hinkley Point C nuclear power. James is currently working for the European Institutions. He is also carrying out a doctoral research project into archival policy towards email in conjunction with Loughborough University and the National Archives. James is the author of the Thinking Records blog and presenter of the IRMS podcast series. |
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Tuesday, 22 December 2020 |
Interactive Workshop VocBench: Getting Started, Installation Step 1 VocBench is a web-based open source application to build knowledge organisation systems using SKOS, but it needs a bit of work get it running. In this interactive workshop, Phil Stacey and Eugene Morozov will walk through prerequisites and the local set up of VocBench step-by-step, and develop a simple taxonomy using Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS). A Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS) provides a standard way to represent knowledge organisation systems such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading systems and taxonomies within the framework of the Semantic Web. |
Myths and Half Truths About Semantic Data Modelling In this talk, Panos Alexopoulos, Head of Ontology at Textkernel, described certain myths and half-truths that are found in the semantic modelling world and discussed what typically happens in reality. |