ISKO UK Meetups are dedicated to discussing and debating a broad range of topics relating to knowledge organization. Throughout 2020, 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.
Forthcoming events
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Tuesday, 16 February 2021 |
Putting Search Theory to Work on Large Datasets Tony Russell-Rose is Senior Lecturer in Computer Science. He is also Director of UXLabs, a research and design consultancy specialising in complex search and information access applications. |
| Tuesday, 23 March 2021 |
Taxonomy Boot Camp talk by Helen Lippell and Kat Allen from Taxonomy Boot Camp London |
| Tuesday, 20 Apr 2021 | [TBC] Paul Rissen Senior Product Manager - Springer Nature |
| Tuesday, 25 May 2021 |
MS Teams – the case for Information Architecture and Governance Presentation by Metataxis. Details here |
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Tuesday, 24 Aug 2021 |
On the long history of information technology by Professor Stephen Robertson |
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Tuesday, 21 September 2021 |
Building Better Ecommerce Search with Open Source Software by Charlie Hull |
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Tuesday, 19 October 2021 |
Talking about Parliament Ontologies by Anya Somerville and Michael Smethurst |
Previous event (for a complete list of past events see here)
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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. Read more 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. |
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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. Read more... |