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For the second year running ISKO UK will hold its Annual General Meeting online on Tuesday 20th of April 2021 starting at 5 pm.
During the meeting, we will present highlights and achievements over the past year as well as propose future developments planned for the year ahead.
Although voting on proposed resolutions will only take place online, we strongly encourage you to attend as this is a unique opportunity for members to meet and take part to decisions.
A provisional agenda and other relevant papers will be available in the Members area of the ISKO UK website few days prior to the AGM.
A Zoom URL will be sent to registrants 24 hours before the start of the meeting.
For any queries regarding the above, please contact secretary@iskouk.org
Beyond the Hero's Journey
by Paul Rissen (Senior Product Manager, Springer Nature)
Everything is a story nowadays. We’re implored to consider the hero’s journey, not just the user’s journey. But do we really know what makes a story tick? Rather than applying the hallmarks of storytelling to user experiences, this session will go deep on the most pervasive information architecture there is — story itself. Why do you binge on those box sets? What makes you punch the air in delight? We’ll go beyond the three acts, the rise and fall, and examine how screenwriters structure narrative at a deeper level. How they carefully craft the revelation of information to an audience. What are the poetics of storytelling, and how do writers use so called ‘narrative special effects’ to keep you engaged? 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.
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Using computational ethnography to track information use in knowledge organisations
By Martin White
Ethnographic research has traditionally focused on organisational cultures and communications. A benchmark study of information cultures carried out in 1998 in the International Monetary Fund by Richard Harper in the IMF was based on ethnographic methodologies but since that time very little attention has been paid to information flows in organisations. One outcome of this lack of research is the myth that employees spend two hours a day looking for information. Over the last five years computational ethnography (primarily through using data logging software) has started to be used to explore these information flows. This presentation will start with a discussion of Wilson's behaviour/seeking/searching model, consider why it is important to understand information flows, outline the development of computational ethnography and present some of the ethical issues the technique raises. Summaries of some recent research projects will be given, with a particular focus on the way in which computational ethnography reveals the existence and impact of 'information workarounds', especially in the clinical sector.
Link to Zoom will be emailed to registrants two days prior the event.
VocBench Workshops: Part 2: VocBench Data Import with Sheet2RDF
VocBench is a free and open-source web application to build ontologies, knowledge organization systems and lexicons using web standards such as OWL, SKOS/SKOS-XL and Onto-Lex. The three-part workshop series on VocBench is organized by ISKO UK Meetup team members in collaboration with Dr. Armando Stellato. The workshops are intended for those considering to use or who have just started using VocBench. We hope to build a community of VocBench users within the ISKO.
Speakers:
Armando Stellato is Assistant Professor at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, where he carries on research and teaching in the fields of Knowledge Representation and Knowledge Based Systems. Armando has also been consultant at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations as Semantic Architect, working on all aspects related to maintenance and publication of FAO RDF vocabularies and on the development of VocBench: an Application for Collaborative Management of RDF Vocabularies. Currently he is leading the VocBench3 project, funded by the ISA2 programme of the EU.
Phil Stacey works for Barratt Homes implementing document management and fire safety in the southern counties division. Phil has over 25 years experience in the construction industry working in design and information management. He is passionate about realising the business benefit structured data and the benefits BIM (Building Information Modeling) software can deliver through its implementation at scale, across the housing sector.
Eugene Morozov is a technology consultant working with financial services firms on data governance and data management projects. Interested in the use of linked data to improve reference data management, architecture modelling and regulatory compliance, he used SKOS and VocBench to develop enterprise architecture vocabulary in his last assignment. He also runs the Semantic Web London meetup.
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Knowledge Organization Systems in the spotlight: collecting and observing KO
This event is organized in collaboration with the ISKO Low Countries chapter.
Observing trajectories in Science: Building the DANS KOS Observatory by Uma Balakrishnan & Jakob Voss
The Zoom link will be emailed to registrants two days prior the event.
MS Teams – the case for Information Architecture and Governance
MS Teams is becoming ubiquitous in our organisations. It undisputedly offers a whole range of productivity tools for our colleagues including an easy entry point and focus for projects and topics, transparent conversations for all members of the team, keeping related conversations and documents together, along with providing management capabilities for collaboration, meetings, calling, and apps in one place with fairly simple administration.
On the other hand, if ungoverned and unmanaged, MS Teams can exacerbate the growth of information silos, impeding effective information discovery, and hindering effective information and records management governance and oversight.
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 .
INTRODUCTION TO METATAXIS Metataxis is a consultancy specialising in information management and information architecture services, with extensive Office 365 and SharePoint experience, having worked on over 50 SharePoint projects over the last 18 years. We believe that an information architecture which supports user requirements and behaviours, and which is appropriate for the specific content, is the key to any successful information-based project. We also strongly believe that an information governance framework defining the information and data management principles is necessary to underpin the efficient and effective management of an organisation’s information and data, to support its core functions and activities, and to demonstrate compliance with its legal and regulatory obligations.
VocBench Workshops: Part 3: VocBench Vocabulary Versioning and Data Catalogue
