Speakers

Andrea Scharnhorst is a senior research fellow at the Data Archiving and Networked Services institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (DANS-KNAW) - the Dutch National Centre of Expertise and Repository for Research Data. She works as a senior policy advisor at DANS. In her academic career Andrea worked in the fields of statistical physics, philosophy of science, scientometrics and information sciences.She has published on models of innovation and science dynamics, the Matthew effect in science, the evolution of classification systems, the use of digital research archives, visual interfaces for information navigation, and the application of linked data in the humanities. Frequently her work entails the transfer of concepts and methods at an interface between physics and social sciences and humanities.

Building knowledge bases – a human centered AI supported approach for long-term archiving

Marcia Zeng

Marcia Zeng is Professor Emeritus at Kent State University (USA). Her primary research interests include knowledge organization systems, linked data, metadata, smart data and big data, semantic technologies, and digital humanities. Dr. Zeng has authored over 100 research papers and five books. She has chaired and served on committees, working groups, and executive boards including IFLA, SLA, ASIS&T, NISO, ISO, DCMI, ISKO, and W3C. She was a member of the working group that developed the international standard ISO 25964 (Thesauri and Interoperability with other vocabularies).

The role of KOS in AI-supported semantic integration: disambiguation, identification, linking

Ziyoung Park is a professor in the Department of Library and Information Science at Hansung University in Seoul, Republic of Korea. She received her Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from Yonsei University, Seoul, in 2010, and has been engaged in research and teaching at Hansung University since 2011. Her work focuses on knowledge organization systems (KOS), including the design of classification systems, metadata modeling, and semantic registry development. She leads the K-KOS Open Archives project, which collects, structures, and shares distributed Korean knowledge organization systems. She also directs the translated bibliographic database in the UeDeKo project, overseeing its design and quality management. She is a member of ISKO Italy, serves as an editor for BARTOC, is on the program committee of NKOS, and participates in the ILC project team.

Co-creating with generative AI and expert review: empowering KOS projects through design, automation, and recommendation

Angelo Salatino is a Research Fellow at the Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University who develops AI solutions to analyse scholarly data. His main research interests include detecting emerging research trends and creating semantic technologies to organise scholarly knowledge. He has created several systems used by publishers and research organisations, including the Computer Science Ontology (CSO), currently the largest taxonomy of research topics in Computer Science; the CSO Classifier, which annotates research documents; and Augur, a tool for detecting emerging research topics. Recently, his research has focused on investigating how Large Language Models can support the analysis of scientific knowledge. He is particularly interested in exploring how these models can be enhanced with domain knowledge to understand scientific content better and support researchers and practitioners in their daily activities.

Knowledge organization systems of research fields: overview and automatic generation

Mayukh Bagchi is a postdoctoral researcher specializing in information science and AI in the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science at the Universit of Trento, Italy, where he is also engaged as a teaching assistant. He is also an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education. Mayukh holds a PhD in information engineering and computer science and master's degrees in mathematics and information science. His research interests are in interdisciplianry AI, interdisciplinary information science, human-AI interaction, philosophy of machine and deep learning, foundations of mathemtics, and literary epistomelogy.

Generative knowledge organization via human-LLM collaboration

Tony Russell-Rose is Professor of User Experience Engineering at City St George's, University of London. He began his career with a PhD in language modelling for handwriting recognition, followed by research fellowships at HP Labs and BT Labs, where he worked on speech interfaces and intelligent agents for information retrieval. He went on to lead information retrieval R&D at Canon and NLP research at Reuters, later heading UX and software engineering teams at Oracle and Cancer Research UK. In 2019, he returned to academia as Reader in Cognitive Computing at Goldsmiths, where he co-founded the MA in Computational Linguistics. He is Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at the University of Essex, and author of Designing the Search Experience. His current work focuses on human-centred search systems, including the design of interactive tools to support evidence-based research.

Building and deploying LLMs for search and retrieval

Joseph Busch is an authority in the field of information science, with an emphasis on helping organizations develop two kinds of vocabularies - metadata schema and taxonomies that help create, manage, and publish content assets so they can be found, used, and reused. Mr. Busch is currently on a full-time assignment as the senior business classification analyst for the African Development Bank which is based in Abidjan in the Côte d’Ivoire.

The case for general purpose categorizers as part of the AI ecosystem

Ronald Siebes is an assistant professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Will GenAI make KO professionals redundant?

Julaine Clunis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of STEM Education and Professional Studies at Old Dominion University. She earned her Ph.D. in Communication and Information from Kent State University with a concentration in Knowledge Organization, and also holds an MS in Health Informatics and a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS). Her research focuses on knowledge organization, health informatics, ontologies, metadata, and data curation, with emphasis on improving information access and interoperability across diverse contexts. Dr. Clunis has received several prestigious fellowships, including the 2019 and 2020 LIS Education and Data Science for the National Digital Platform (LEADS-4-NDP) and the 2021 Beta Phi Mu Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. She actively contributes to the advancement of information science through her involvement in professional organizations such as the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) and the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO).

From black boxes to transparent AI systems: balancing innovation and responsibility using knowledge organization systems

Joana Casenaveis an Associate Professor in Documentation and Information Sciences at the iSchool University of Lille. She holds a joint Ph.D. in Information Sciences (EBSI University of Montreal) and Medieval Literature (University of Paris-Est Créteil). Joana is specialized in digital critical editions and investigates the epistemological shifts brought about by the digital environment on philological methodologies. She published a book on digital critical editions in collaboration with Champion Editions. She is also highly interested in knowledge organization and Digital Humanities, particularly in exploring the theoretical connections between these two domains. She is engaged with applied ethics issues in Knowledge organization and participates in the International Thematic Network on the Ethics in SHS founded by Widad Mustafa El Hadi.

Artificial intelligence, KO and information mediation on the Web: from ethical dimensions to social responsibility

Widad Mustafa El Hadi is a Professor of Information Science in the Department of Information & Document at the iSchool, University of Lille SHS, where she is responsible for International Relations and oversees the Master’s Diploma program. Since 1996, she has been involved with ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization), having co-founded the French ISKO Chapter alongside Jacques Maniez. Her main research interests encompass theoretical frameworks for knowledge organization, the roles of language and culture in shaping knowledge, social epistemologies, knowledge organization systems, cross-linguistic and cross-cultural information mediation, as well as recent developments in digital humanities and the ethics of information and knowledge organization. In June 2021, she founded the International Thematic Network on the Ethics in SHS.

Artificial intelligence, KO and information mediation on the Web: from ethical dimensions to social responsibility

Thibault Grison is an Associate Professor in Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Lille. His work focuses on the use of artificial intelligence and the risks of algorithmic discrimination, with particular attention to issues of gender, race, and sexuality online. More specifically, his research examines questions of information censorship in both traditional media and digital social networks.

Artificial intelligence, KO and information mediation on the Web: from ethical dimensions to social responsibility