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11th ISKO International Conference
Paradigms and conceptual systems in knowledge organization
Rome (Italy), 23-26 February 2010

Registration is now open at the conference website:
http://www.iskoi.org/rome2010
-- in order to register, login with your username (or create one)
-- click on "Register to attend the conference" and fill the form
specifying whether you will participate in the social dinner
-- pay by Paypal from the registration form, or by bank transfer

EARLY BIRD fees:
regular     230 EUR (270 EUR after October 31th)
ISKO member 180 EUR (230 EUR after October 31th)
student     120 EUR
one-day     100 EUR

Keynote speaker:
W. Boyd Rayward (University of Illinois)

Conference topics and presentations:
http://www.iskoi.org/ocs/index.php/int/rome2010/schedConf/presentations

Program overview:
http://www.iskoi.org/ocs/index.php/int/rome2010/announcement/view/7

Conference chair:
Fulvio Mazzocchi (National Research Council, Italy)

Programme chair:
Claudio Gnoli (University of Pavia)

Accommodation information:
http://www.iskoi.org/ocs/index.php/int/rome2010/schedConf/accommodation

General contact:
rome2010@...

Is anyone considering attending one of these conferences posted on the group?
International ISKO Conference in Rome or
Classification at a Crossroads at the Hague?

Has anyone attended conferences sponsored by these entities previously, and if
so, have any comments?

M J Barczak

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=========== EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION CLOSES 1 SEPTEMBER ==============

CLASSIFICATION AT A CROSSROADS: MULTIPLE DIRECTIONS TO USABILITY
International UDC Seminar 2009
29-30 October 2009, The Hague

VENUE: Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of The Netherlands)

URL: http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/index.htm

FEE: 110 euros (student discount: 90 euros)

To take advantage of the early bird discount, register on the conference website
http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/index.htm

The conference programme includes a selection of over twenty papers representing
classification research in 14 countries. Speakers will address the potential of
classification, in supporting information organization, management and resource
discovery in the networked environment and will explore solutions for better
subject access control and vocabulary sharing services
<http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/programme.htm>

Two eminent keynote speakers will address the conference: Prof. Dagobert
Soergel, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland (USA) and Dan
Brickley, an advocate and developer of W3C Semantic Web technologies (UK).

The conference is the second in a series of International UDC Seminars organized
by the UDC Consortium and hosted by The National Library of The Netherlands
(Koninklijke Bibliotheek). The UDCC is a self-funded, non-commercial
organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the
Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) and supports its use and development.
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                ===========  INVITATION ==============

CLASSIFICATION AT A CROSSROADS: MULTIPLE DIRECTIONS TO USABILITY
International UDC Seminar 2009
29-30 October 2009, The Hague

The conference programme includes a selection of over twenty papers representing
classification research in 14 countries. Speakers will address the potential of
classification, in supporting information organization, management and resource
discovery in the networked environment and will explore solutions for better
subject access control and vocabulary sharing services
<http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/programme.htm>

Two eminent keynote speakers will address the conference: Prof. Dagobert
Soergel, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland (USA) and Dan
Brickley, an advocate and developer of W3C Semantic Web technologies (UK).
VENUE: Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of The Netherlands)

URL: http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/index.htm

FEE: 110 euros (student discount: 90 euros)

To take advantage of the early bird discount register and pay online at the
conference site http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/index.htm

The conference is the second in a series of International UDC Seminars organized
by the UDC Consortium and hosted by The National Library of The Netherlands
(Koninklijke Bibliotheek). The UDCC is a self-funded, non-commercial
organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the
Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) and supports its development and use.
===========================================================================

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=========== PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME WITH ABSTRACTS NOW PUBLISHED ==============

CLASSIFICATION AT A CROSSROADS: MULTIPLE DIRECTIONS TO USABILITY
International UDC Seminar 2009
29-30 October 2009, The Hague

VENUE: Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of The Netherlands)

URL: http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/index.htm

FEE: 110 euros (student discount: 90 euros)

To take advantage of the early bird discount, register as soon as you can on the
conference site http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/index.htm

The conference programme includes a selection of over twenty papers representing
classification research in 14 countries. Speakers will address the potential of
classification, in supporting information organization, management and resource
discovery in the networked environment and will explore solutions for better
subject access control and vocabulary sharing services
<http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/programme.htm>

Two eminent keynote speakers will address the conference: Prof. Dagobert
Soergel, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland (USA) and Dan
Brickley, an advocate and developer of W3C Semantic Web technologies (UK).

The conference is the second in a series of International UDC Seminars organized
by the UDC Consortium and hosted by The National Library of The Netherlands
(Koninklijke Bibliotheek). The UDCC is a self-funded, non-commercial
organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the
Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) and supports its use and development.
===========================================================================

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=========== EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION OPENS ==============

CLASSIFICATION AT A CROSSROADS: MULTIPLE DIRECTIONS TO USABILITY
International UDC Seminar 2009
29-30 October 2009, The Hague

VENUE: Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of The Netherlands)

URL: http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/index.htm

FEE: 110 euros (student discount: 90 euros)

To take advantage of the early bird discount, register on the conference site
http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/index.htm

The conference programme includes a selection of over twenty papers representing
classification research in 14 countries. Speakers will address the potential of
classification, in supporting information organization, management and resource
discovery in the networked environment and will explore solutions for better
subject access control and vocabulary sharing services
<http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/programme.htm>

Two eminent keynote speakers will address the conference: Prof. Dagobert
Soergel, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland (USA) and Dan
Brickley, an advocate and developer of W3C Semantic Web technologies (UK).

The conference is the second in a series of International UDC Seminars organized
by the UDC Consortium and hosted by The National Library of The Netherlands
(Koninklijke Bibliotheek). The UDCC is a self-funded, non-commercial
organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the
Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) and supports its use and development.
===========================================================================

I have an internship available for a student intern or recent graduate, with all
funds to be expended before September 1. The intern would prepare a content
inventory and analysis of the web materials controlled by the ALA offices, with
the final deliverable being an information architecture plan that integrates the
materials into the right place on the website by topic. The ideal candidate
would be able to think analytically about concepts and the relationships between
them, and would learn and use our CMS to make some of the most significant
changes with my assistance.

 

During July 9-14, the selected intern would assist with a series of one on one
website usability tests with members, in conjunction with our 11 division
webmasters and me. There may also be some additional accessibility testing with
members who have various disabilities. The selected intern might be asked to
analyze and summarize the findings.

 

The position would probably pay $15 an hour, and could be full time (35 hours a
week) from mid-May to late August. If you are interested, send a resume and a
cover letter to my work e-mail that speaks to your ability to do this type of
work, even if the skills are transferable ones from other experiences. There is
a chance that you could work remotely for most of the content analysis phase of
this if you are not in the Chicago area.

 

Louise Gruenberg, MAE, MLS

lgruenberg@...

Sr. Usability Officer

Information Technology & Telecommunications

American Library Association

50 E. Huron St.

Chicago, IL 60611

312-280-1395

800-312-280-2433, ex. 1395


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*** 11th International ISKO Conference ***
    Rome (Italy), February 23rd-26th, 2010
        http://www.iskoi.org/rome2010/

Second call for papers
-45 days to the deadline for submissions


--- Theme: Paradigms and conceptual systems in knowledge organization

The arrangement of any information content using tools like
bibliographic classification schemes, subject heading systems,
thesauri, taxonomies, and ontologies is collectively studied today
under the broader label of knowledge organization (KO). The
International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) organizes its
biennial international conference to gather scholars and
practitioners across the world who are interested in sharing their
perspectives and experience in this field.

The next international conference will be held in Rome on February
23rd to 26th, 2010, and will have as its theme "Paradigms and
conceptual systems in knowledge organization". Recent research
presented in KO journals and conferences has emphasized how knowledge
organization systems (KOSs) are affected by the social, cultural, and
philosophical contexts in which authors and communities produce and
use them. As a consequence, a critical way of looking at all forms of
KO has spread. Scholars have warned that paradigms hidden in KOSs --
meant as sets of basic assumptions on which knowledge fields are
grounded at a given time and place -- should be identified and
discussed more explicitly.

Systems have to be developed and described with an increased
awareness of their foundations, as well as their still unsolved
questions. Critical awareness does not, in fact, eliminate the
persisting need for KO. The time may be right to move forward from a
critical stage towards a more constructive one, aimed at finding out
which paradigms and conceptual systems can best suit the various
purposes of contemporary KO.

Although many systems have been designed for the purposes of
specific domains and communities, the new situation of interconnected
global knowledge means that often we cannot anticipate which users
will access our knowledge resources. This poses the question of how
to deal with both global and local surroundings and needs, ie with a
diversity of traditions and special viewpoints (eg cultural,
disciplinary or theoretical) within the framework of a global
platform.

Papers are welcome on KO topics including:

- ontological foundations of KO, eg ontological categories, levels
of reality, principles for analyzing classes into their kinds and
parts;

- epistemological foundations of KO, eg psychological, cognitive,
linguistic bases, normative or hermeneutical presuppositions
incorporated in KOSs on what is meant by knowledge;

- pragmatical foundations and requirements of KO, eg viewpoint
warrant, cultural warrant, domain analysis, interoperability between
different perspectives, both global and local;

- solutions for the management of the interdisciplinarity,
transdisciplinarity, and complexity of contemporary knowledge
(as remarked eg in the Leon Manifesto);

- description and analysis of specific KOSs and their conceptual
structures.


--- Instructions for authors

Please provide by May 4th, 2009, a condensed version of your paper,
consisting of 1000 to 1500 words in accurate English, saved as an RTF
or TXT or DOC file. Remove authors' names from the text, using
"Author" and year in the bibliography and footnotes, instead of
authors' name, paper title, etc.

In order to submit it, go to the submission Web page:
http://www.iskoi.org/ocs/index.php/int/rome2010/about/submissions
and create an account, specifying that you are an Author.

Then go back to the conference homepage
(by clicking on "Paradigms and conceptual systems in KO") and select
"Proposal submission" under the picture or in the menu on the right.
Fill the form and upload your paper according to the instructions.
(In case you experience any problem, contact the programme chair at
gnoli@... )

Papers will be reviewed by the scientific committee as for their
originality and relevance to the conference theme and to knowledge
organization in general. You will be able to follow the revision
process online, and will be notified on acceptance by end of June.

Authors of accepted papers will be requested to submit a final
version of a maximum of 7 pages (~3500 words), which will be
published in the printed proceedings, in the "Advances in KO" series,
by Ergon Verlag.

Failure to conform to the registration and submission deadlines and
to template formats will lead to paper rejection from the proceedings
and the program.


--- Organization

The 11th biennial International ISKO Conference is organized by the
Italian Chapter of ISKO and hosted by the Faculty of Philosophy at
the Sapienza University of Rome.

Conference chair:
Fulvio Mazzocchi, National Research Council, Italy

Programme chair:
Claudio Gnoli, University of Pavia, Italy

Programme committee:
http://www.iskoi.org/ocs/index.php/int/rome2010/about/organizingTeam

Previous ISKO conferences took place in Darmstadt (1990),
Madras (1992), Copenhagen (1994), Washington (1996), Lille (1998),
Toronto (2000), Granada (2002), London (2004), Vienna (2006), and
Montreal (2008).


--- Important dates

Deadline for condensed paper submission: May 4th, 2009
Notification about paper acceptance: June, 2009
Deadline for full camera ready paper: September 30th, 2009
Conference: February 23rd-26th, 2010


--- Contacts

Dr. Fulvio Mazzocchi
National Research Council. Institute for Complex Systems
Montelibretti Section, via Salaria Km 29,300
CP 10, 00015 Monterotondo Stazione (RM), Italy

Dr. Claudio Gnoli
University of Pavia. Science and Technology Library
via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy

email: rome2010@...
Web: http://www.iskoi.org/rome2010/

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============ INVITATION FOR REGISTRATION ================

"Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources"
ISKO UK 2009 Conference, London, 22-23 June 2009

VENUE: University College London
	 Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT

EARLY BIRD FEE (to 31st March): 135 GBP
				 115 GBP (ISKO members, students)


The complete programme is now available at
http://www.iskouk.org/conf2009/programme.htm.

We have 28 presentations, with speakers from ten countries. Topics include
semantic interoperability, image retrieval, multimedia challenges, mapping and
modelling.

As keynote speakers we have:
- Professor David Crystal, the renowned author, linguist and broadcaster,
talking about semantic targeting;
- Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, on the
subject of e-Research and New Challenges in Knowledge Structuring

To take advantage of the early bird discount, register as soon as you can on the
conference site at http://www.iskouk.org/conf2009/index.htm.

"Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources", is the first
biennial conference of the UK Chapter of ISKO (International Society for
Knowledge Organization).

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==================== EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION OPEN ================

SUBJECT: REGISTRATION OPEN: ISKO UK 2009 Conference - Content Architecture,
London, 22-23 June 2009

Registration is now open for "Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing
Diverse Resources", the first biennial conference of the UK Chapter of ISKO
(International Society for Knowledge Organization). It will be held in London on
22-23 June 2009.

Come to this exciting Conference to hear about and discuss the opportunities
arising from the growing digitization and networking of information resources.
It will be a bridge-building event, designed to promote dialogue between
practitioners and researchers from diverse communities.

The preliminary programme is now on the conference website at
http://www.iskouk.org/conf2009/programme.htm. We have 28 presentations, with
speakers from ten countries. Topics include semantic interoperability, image
retrieval, multimedia challenges, mapping and modelling.

As keynote speakers we have:
- Professor David Crystal, the renowned author, linguist and broadcaster,
talking about semantic targeting;
- Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, on the
subject of e-Research and New Challenges in Knowledge Structuring

To take advantage of the early bird discount, register as soon as you can on the
conference site at http://www.iskouk.org/conf2009/index.htm.

======================================================================

[Apologies for cross-posting and feel free to forward]


*** 11th International ISKO Conference ***
    Rome (Italy), February 23rd-26th, 2010
        http://www.iskoi.org/rome2010/

The official call for papers is *open*.


--- Theme: Paradigms and conceptual systems in knowledge organization

The arrangement of any information content using tools like
bibliographic classification schemes, subject heading systems,
thesauri, taxonomies, and ontologies is collectively studied today
under the broader label of knowledge organization (KO). The
International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) organizes its
biennial international conference to gather scholars and
practitioners across the world who are interested in sharing their
perspectives and experience in this field.

The next international conference will be held in Rome on February
23rd to 26th, 2010, and will have as its theme "Paradigms and
conceptual systems in knowledge organization". Recent research
presented in KO journals and conferences has emphasized how knowledge
organization systems (KOSs) are affected by the social, cultural, and
philosophical contexts in which authors and communities produce and
use them. As a consequence, a critical way of looking at all forms of
KO has spread. Scholars have warned that paradigms hidden in KOSs --
meant as sets of basic assumptions on which knowledge fields are
grounded at a given time and place -- should be identified and
discussed more explicitly.

Systems have to be developed and described with an increased
awareness of their foundations, as well as their still unsolved
questions. Critical awareness does not, in fact, eliminate the
persisting need for KO. The time may be right to move forward from a
critical stage towards a more constructive one, aimed at finding out
which paradigms and conceptual systems can best suit the various
purposes of contemporary KO.

Although many systems have been designed for the purposes of
specific domains and communities, the new situation of interconnected
global knowledge means that often we cannot anticipate which users
will access our knowledge resources. This poses the question of how
to deal with both global and local surroundings and needs, ie with a
diversity of traditions and special viewpoints (eg cultural,
disciplinary or theoretical) within the framework of a global
platform.

Papers are welcome on KO topics including:

- ontological foundations of KO, eg ontological categories, levels
of reality, principles for analyzing classes into their kinds and
parts;

- epistemological foundations of KO, eg psychological, cognitive,
linguistic bases, normative or hermeneutical presuppositions
incorporated in KOSs on what is meant by knowledge;

- pragmatical foundations and requirements of KO, eg viewpoint
warrant, cultural warrant, domain analysis, interoperability between
different perspectives, both global and local;

- solutions for the management of the interdisciplinarity,
transdisciplinarity, and complexity of contemporary knowledge
(as remarked eg in the Leon Manifesto);

- description and analysis of specific KOSs and their conceptual
structures.


--- Instructions for authors

Please provide by May 4th, 2009, a condensed version of your paper,
consisting of 1000 to 1500 words in accurate English, saved as an RTF
or TXT or DOC file. Remove authors' names from the text, using
"Author" and year in the bibliography and footnotes, instead of
authors' name, paper title, etc.

In order to submit it, go to the submission Web page:
http://www.iskoi.org/ocs/index.php/int/rome2010/about/submissions
and create an account, specifying that you are an Author.

Then go back to the conference homepage
(by clicking on "Paradigms and conceptual systems in KO") and select
"Proposal submission" under the picture or in the menu on the right.
Fill the form and upload your paper according to the instructions.
(In case you experience any problem, contact the programme chair at
gnoli@... )

Papers will be reviewed by the scientific committee as for their
originality and relevance to the conference theme and to knowledge
organization in general. You will be able to follow the revision
process online, and will be notified on acceptance by end of June.

Authors of accepted papers will be requested to submit a final
version of a maximum of 7 pages (~3500 words), which will be
published in the printed proceedings, in the "Advances in KO" series,
by Ergon Verlag.

Failure to conform to the registration and submission deadlines and
to template formats will lead to paper rejection from the proceedings
and the program.


--- Organization

The 11th biennial International ISKO Conference is organized by the
Italian Chapter of ISKO and hosted by the Faculty of Philosophy at
the Sapienza University of Rome.

Conference chair:
Fulvio Mazzocchi, National Research Council, Italy

Programme chair:
Claudio Gnoli, University of Pavia, Italy

Programme committee:
http://www.iskoi.org/ocs/index.php/int/rome2010/about/organizingTeam

Previous ISKO conferences took place in Darmstadt (1990),
Madras (1992), Copenhagen (1994), Washington (1996), Lille (1998),
Toronto (2000), Granada (2002), London (2004), Vienna (2006), and
Montreal (2008).


--- Important dates

Deadline for condensed paper submission: May 4th, 2009
Notification about paper acceptance: June, 2009
Deadline for full camera ready paper: September 30th, 2009
Conference: February 23rd-26th (to be confirmed soon), 2010


--- Contacts

Dr. Fulvio Mazzocchi
National Research Council. Institute for Complex Systems
Montelibretti Section, via Salaria Km 29,300
CP 10, 00015 Monterotondo Stazione (RM), Italy

Dr. Claudio Gnoli
University of Pavia. Science and Technology Library
via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy

email: rome2010@...
Web: http://www.iskoi.org/rome2010/

***Apologies for cross-posting***
==================== LAST CALL FOR PAPERS=======================

CLASSIFICATION AT A CROSSROADS - MULTIPLE DIRECTIONS TO USABILITY
International UDC Seminar 2009

The Hague, 29-30 October 2009

The 2009 Seminar will explore how new developments in information standards and
technology influence and affect applications and services using classification
and its relationship to other systems.

Two eminent keynote speakers will address the conference: Prof. Karen Markey,
School of Information, University of Michigan, a well known author and
researcher in the area of improving online information systems and Dan Brickley,
an advocate and developer of W3C Semantic Web technologies, who founded and
chaired the Semantic Web Development Group from 1999-2005. (see more
http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/speakers.htm)

The conference programme will highlight many ways in which classification use
can be improved. Attention will be paid to the applications of classification
schemes, UDC in particular, in supporting multilingual access, user-friendly
representations of classification in resource discovery and application across
distributed systems.

Papers are invited from classification researchers and practitioners on the
following topics:

1. classification and semantic technologies
2. classification in supporting information integration
3. verbal and multilingual access to classification
4. classification authority control and library systems
5. visual representations/interface to classification
6. experiences with classification outside the traditional library environment

Contributions may include conference papers and posters. To read more about the
conference and its theme and to submit your abstract, please go to the
conference website: http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/index.htm.

Contributions will be reviewed by the Programme Committee consisting of an
international panel of classification experts. Proceedings of the conference
will be published in Extensions and Corrections to the UDC, 31 (2009). A
selection of the best papers will be considered for publication in Knowledge
Organization, the leading peer-reviewed journal in the field.

IMPORTANT DATES:
01 Feb 2009    Abstract submission deadline
01 Apr 2009    Notification of acceptance
31 Jul 2009    Full papers/posters submission

CONTACT:    seminar2009@...

ORGANIZER: The seminar is organized by the UDC Consortium (UDCC) and hosted by
The National library of The Netherlands. UDCC is a non-profit organization,
based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the Universal Decimal
Classification (UDC) and supports its use and development.

===========================END==============================

***Apologies for cross-posting***
==================== 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS=======================
International UDC Seminar 2009

CLASSIFICATION AT A CROSSROADS - MULTIPLE DIRECTIONS TO USABILITY
The Hague, 29-30 October 2009

The 2009 Seminar will explore how new developments in information standards and
technology influence and affect applications and services using classification
and its relationship to other systems.

Two eminent keynote speakers will address the conference: Prof. Karen Markey,
School of Information, University of Michigan, a well known author and
researcher in the area of improving online information systems and Dan Brickley,
an advocate and developer of W3C Semantic Web technologies, who founded and
chaired the Semantic Web Development Group from 1999-2005.

The conference programme will highlight many ways in which classification use
can be improved. Attention will be paid to the applications of classification
schemes, UDC in particular, in supporting multilingual access, user-friendly
representations of classification in resource discovery and application across
distributed systems.

Papers are now invited from classification researchers and practitioners on the
following topics:

1. classification and semantic technologies
2. classification in supporting information integration
3. verbal and multilingual access to classification
4. classification authority control and library systems
5. visual representations/interface to classification
6. experiences with classification outside the traditional library environment

Contributions may include conference papers and posters. To read more about the
conference and its theme and to submit your abstract, please go to the
conference website: http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/index.htm.

Contributions will be reviewed by the Programme Committee consisting of an
international panel of classification experts. Proceedings of the conference
will be published in Extensions and Corrections to the UDC, 31 (2009). A
selection of the best papers will be considered for publication in Knowledge
Organization, the leading peer-reviewed journal in the field.

IMPORTANT DATES:
01 Feb 2009    Abstract submission deadline
01 Apr 2009    Notification of acceptance
31 Jul 2009    Full papers/posters submission

CONTACT:    seminar2009@...

ORGANIZER: The seminar is organized by the UDC Consortium (UDCC) and hosted by
The National library of The Netherlands. UDCC is a non-profit organization,
based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the Universal Decimal
Classification (UDC) and supports its use and development.

===========================END==============================

*** Apologies for cross-posting ***

==================== CALL FOR PAPERS=======================
International UDC Seminar 2009

CLASSIFICATION AT A CROSSROADS - MULTIPLE DIRECTIONS TO USABILITY
The Hague, 29-30 October 2009

Following the success of the first International Seminar on UDC in 2007, this
the second in a series of biennial conferences is entitled "Classification at a
Crossroads: Multiple Directions to Usability" and will take place on 29-30
October 2009 in the UDC headquarters at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The
Hague.

The 2009 Seminar aims to explore how new developments in information standards
and technology influence and affect applications and services using
classification, Universal Decimal Classification in particular, and its
relationships to other systems.

The conference programme will highlight many ways in which classification use
can be improved. Attention will be paid to the applications of classification
schemes, UDC in particular, in supporting multilingual access, user-friendly
representations of classification in resource discovery and semantic searching
expansion and classification application across distributed systems.

Papers are now invited from classification researchers and practitioners, as
well as information systems managers on the following topics:

1. classification and semantic technologies
2. classification in supporting information integration
3. verbal and multilingual access to classification
4. classification authority control and library systems
5. visual representations/interface to classification
6. experiences with classification outside the traditional library environment

Contributions may include conference papers and posters. To read more about the
conference and its theme and to submit your abstract, please go to the
conference website: http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/index.htm.

Contributions will be reviewed by the Programme Committee consisting of an
international panel of experts. All papers will be made available in an open
e-print archive and linked to from the UDCC website. Selected papers will be
published in the "Extensions and Corrections to the UDC", 31 (2009).

IMPORTANT DATES:
01 Feb 2009    Abstract submission deadline
01 Apr 2009    Notification of acceptance
31 Jul 2009    Full papers/posters submission

CONTACT:    seminar2009@...

ORGANIZER: The seminar is organized by the UDC Consortium (UDCC) and hosted by
The National library of The Netherlands. UDCC is a non-profit organization,
based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the Universal Decimal
Classification (UDC) and supports its use and development.
===========================END==============================

***Apologies for cross-posting***

====== SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ======

CONTENT ARCHITECTURE: EXPLOITING AND MANAGING DIVERSE RESOURCES
London, 22-23 June 2009

Biennial Conference of the British Chapter of the International Society
for Knowledge Organization (ISKO UK)

The ISKO UK 2009 conference "Content Architecture: Exploiting and
Managing Diverse Resources" will address issues in the organization and
integration of text, images, data and voice - multimedia and
multilingual.

Among the highlights will be keynote addresses from Clifford Lynch, Director of
the Coalition for Networked Information, and Professor David Crystal, the
renowned author, linguist and broadcaster.

A wide spectrum of contributors from across the knowledge organization
sector will follow, ensuring ample cross-fertilization of ideas.
Networking will be central, in more than one way.

Over the past year ISKO UK (http://www.iskouk.org/) has attracted large
and lively audiences of content and information architects, website
developers, knowledge engineers, information managers and many others to
its afternoon meeting series (http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm). The
conference aims to extend this wide audience to ensure that all aspects
of knowledge organization are represented.

THEMES of the 2009 Conference include:
•    semantic interoperability across networked resources
•    metadata models and architecture
•    retrieval of still and/or moving images
•    audio retrieval
•    user enhancement (via tagging, feedback, etc.) of content
•    multilingual access to mixed resources
•    integrated combinations of media and/or content types
•    innovative applications for semantic analysis

PAPERS ON THE CONFERENCE THEMES ARE INVITED from the academic and
practitioner communities and may present research, case studies or even
success stories! Contributions may be full length (5-10,000 words) or
brief (2-4,000 words). Proposals for posters may be submitted too. Full
presentations will be allowed 40 minutes, including at least 5 minutes
for questions, while brief presentations should occupy a total of 20
minutes. As well as being available online to coincide with the
Conference, the Proceedings will be published afterwards in a leading
peer-reviewed journal.

SUBMISSION: To read more about the conference and to submit your
abstract, go to the conference website
http://www.iskouk.org/conf2009/index.htm.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission of Abstracts:    1 December 2008
Notification of acceptance:    1 February 2009
Submission of full papers:    1 May 2009

CONTACT: conference2009@...

ABOUT THE ORGANIZER: ISKO UK is a not-for-profit scientific/professional
association with the objective of promoting research and communication
in the domain of knowledge organization, within the broad field of
information science and related disciplines. The conference organizing
team is closely supported by leading thinkers and practitioners in the
knowledge organization arena.

=============================

***Apologies for duplication ***

This is a reminder about the half-day ISKO UK event "Semantic Analysis
Technology:in search of categories, concepts & context" to be held on 3rd
November 2008, at University College London.

If you would like to attend please book your place on the events webpage
http://www.iskouk.org/semantic_nov2008.htm


=== more about the event ===

We would like to invite you to a half-day event organized by the British Chapter
of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO UK) entitled:

"Semantic Analysis Technology: in search of categories, concepts & context"

London, 3 November 2008 from 14:00 - 19:00 (registration starts at 13:15).

Venue: University College London, Wilkins Building, Gustave Tuck Lecture
Theatre, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT

Cost: 20 GBP  (students and ISKO members free!)

Much has been written in recent years of the potential of semantic analysis
technology which extracts categories, concepts and context automatically. But
how well does this technology work and what are the issues involved?

In this seminar, organized by ISKO UK in cooperation with the School of Library,
Archives and Information Studies at University College London, we will hear from
six presenters, each of whom will provide their own experiences. They include
SmartLogic’s Jeremy Bentley, Luca Scagliarini of Expert System, Rob Lee from
Rattle Research, and Helen Lippell, Karen Loasby and Silver Oliver representing
various media organizations, among them the BBC.

For full details on the venue and programme, and to book your place at the event
visit http://www.iskouk.org/semantic_nov2008.htm.

We look forward to seeing you in November!

ISKO UK
http://www.iskouk.org/

***Apologies for cross-posting***

We would like to invite you to a half-day event organized by the British Chapter
of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO UK) entitled:

"Semantic Analysis Technology: in search of categories, concepts & context"

London, 3 November 2008 from 14:00 - 19:00 (registration starts at 13:15).

Venue: University College London, Wilkins Building, Gustave Tuck Lecture
Theatre, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT

Cost: 20 GBP  (students and ISKO members free!)

Much has been written in recent years of the potential of semantic analysis
technology which extracts categories, concepts and context automatically. But
how well does this technology work and what are the issues involved?

In this seminar, organized by ISKO UK in cooperation with the School of Library,
Archives and Information Studies at University College London, we will hear from
six presenters, each of whom will provide their own experiences. They include
SmartLogic’s Jeremy Bentley, Bill Porter of Expert System, Rob Lee from Rattle
Research, and Helen Lippell, Karen Loasby and Silver Oliver representing various
media organizations, among them the BBC.

This event is the fourth in ISKO UK's successful KOnnecting KOmmunities series,
and promises some revealing insights into a technology which we may all find
ourselves using in the not-too-distant future, whether we like it or not.

For full details on the venue and programme, and to book your place at the event
visit http://www.iskouk.org/semantic_nov2008.htm.

We look forward to seeing you in November!

ISKO UK
http://www.iskouk.org/

******

Colleagues working with vocabularies may be interested in the following call for
comments

---

The W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group is pleased to announce the
publication of a Last Call Working Draft for the Simple Knowledge
Organisation System Reference (SKOS):

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-reference-20080829/

Our Working Group has made its best effort to address all comments received
to date, and we seek confirmation that the comments have been addressed to
the satisfaction of the community, allowing us to move forward to W3C
Candidate Recommendation following the Last Call process.

The Working Group solicits review and feedback on this draft specification.
In particular, the Working Group would be keen to hear comments regarding
any features identified at risk, and from those implementing (among others):

* Editors:  editors that either consume or produce SKOS;

* Services: vocabulary services that provide access to vocabularies using
SKOS;

* Checkers: applications that check whether the constraints on SKOS
vocabularies have been violated.

Comments are requested by 3 October 2008, at which time the Working Group
intends to close Last Call. All comments are welcome and should be sent to
public-swd-wg@...; please include the text "SKOS comment" in the subject
line. All messages received at this address are viewable in a public
archive.

The Working Group intends to advance the SKOS Reference to W3C
Recommendation after further review and comment. This Last Call Working
Draft signals the Working Group's belief that it has met its design
objectives for SKOS and has resolved all open issues.

The Working Group has also published an update of the companion SKOS Primer:

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-primer-20080829/

The Working Group expects to revise this Primer while the SKOS Reference is
undergoing review and eventually publish the Primer as a Working Group Note.

Please see also:

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-reference-20080829/#status
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-primer-20080829/#Status

Kind regards,

Alistair Miles
Sean Bechhofer

--
Alistair Miles
Senior Computing Officer
Image Bioinformatics Research Group
Department of Zoology
The Tinbergen Building
University of Oxford
South Parks Road
Oxford
OX1 3PS
United Kingdom
Web: http://purl.org/net/aliman
Email: alistair.miles@...
Tel: +44 (0)1865 281993

--
Sean Bechhofer
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester
sean.bechhofer@...
http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/bechhofer

***Apologies for cross-posting***

======================= CALL FOR PAPERS ========================

CONTENT ARCHITECTURE: EXPLOITING AND MANAGING DIVERSE RESOURCES
London, 22-23 June 2009

Biennial Conference of the British Chapter of the International Society
for Knowledge Organization (ISKO UK)

ISKO UK 2009 conference "Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing
Diverse Resources" will provide a rare opportunity for researchers,
practitioners and innovators from all sectors to share ideas on the
opportunities and challenges implicit in the digitization and networking
of diverse information resources. The Conference will address issues in
the organization and integration of text, images, data and voice -
multimedia and multilingual.

Over the past year ISKO UK (http://www.iskouk.org/) has attracted large
and lively audiences of content and information architects, website
developers, knowledge engineers, information managers and many others to
its afternoon meeting series (http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm). The
conference aims to extend this wide audience to ensure that all aspects
of knowledge organization are represented.

THEMES of the 2009 Conference include:
• semantic interoperability across networked resources
• metadata models and architecture
• retrieval of still and/or moving images
• audio retrieval
• user enhancement (via tagging, feedback, etc.) of content
• multilingual access to mixed resources
• integrated combinations of media and/or content types

PAPERS ON THE CONFERENCE THEMES ARE INVITED from the academic and
practitioner communities and may present research, case studies or even
success stories! Contributions may be full length (5-10,000 words) or
brief (2-4,000 words). Proposals for posters may be submitted too. Full
presentations will be allowed 40 minutes, including at least 5 minutes
for questions, while brief presentations should occupy a total of 20
minutes. As well as being available online to coincide with the
Conference, the Proceedings will be published afterwards in a leading
peer-reviewed journal.

SUBMISSION: To read more about the conference and to submit your
abstract, go to the conference website
http://www.iskouk.org/conf2009/index.htm.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission of Abstracts: 1 December 2008
Notification of acceptance: 1 February 2009
Submission of full papers: 1 May 2009

CONTACT: conference2009@...

ABOUT THE ORGANIZER: ISKO UK is a not-for-profit scientific/professional
association with the objective of promoting research and communication
in the domain of knowledge organization, within the broad field of
information science and related disciplines. The conference organizing
team is closely supported by leading thinkers and practitioners in the
knowledge organization arena.

=========================================

***Apologies for cross-posting***

We would like to invite you to a half-day event organized by the British
Chapter of International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO UK)
entitled

"Sharing Vocabularies on the Web via Simple Knowledge Organization
System (SKOS)" in London

21 July 2008 from 14:00 - 19:00 (registration starts at 13:30)
Venue: University College London, Engineering Faculty, Roberts Building
G06, Sir Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre

Cost: 20 GBP  (students and ISKO members free!)

Predictions for the Semantic Web are heavily dependent on the ability of
computers to reason and communicate using controlled vocabularies. SKOS
(Simple Knowledge Organization System) development aims to bring forward
these capabilities.

Aware of the growing importance of SKOS, ISKO UK in cooperation with
School of Library, Archives and Information Studies at UCL has invited a
group of experts to introduce this standard, explain its status,
potential and scope. Speakers on this event - Alistair Miles, Antoine
Isaac, Stella Dextre Clarke, Leonard Will, Nicolas Cochard, Ceri Binding
and Douglas Tudhope - are involved in the development and application of
SKOS and related standards and are hoping to provoke some interesting
discussion.

This event, the third in ISKO UK's KOnnecting KOmmunities series,
promises a fascinating glimpse of the future of controlled vocabularies.
No one involved or interested in the development, management or
implementation of controlled vocabularies can afford to miss it.

For full details on the venue, programme and to book your place at the
event visit http://www.iskouk.org/SKOS_July2008.htm.

Looking forward to seeing you in July!

ISKO UK
http://www.iskouk.org/

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The following may be of interest

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Axiomathes special issue on Facet analysis
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 14:55:22 +0200
From: Claudio Gnoli <gnoli@...>
Reply-To: Forum for UDC users, developers and researchers
<UDC-FORUM@...>, Claudio Gnoli <gnoli@...>
To: UDC-FORUM@...


(Apologies for cross-posting.)


Dear colleagues,

a special issue devoted to Facet analysis has just been published in
Axiomathes, an international journal in ontology and cognitive
systems, edited by Roberto Poli and published by Springer.

The issue is oriented towards the exploration of potential
connections between facet analysis, a methodology originally
developed in library science, and other disciplines, including
philosophy, linguistics, and computer science. This looks relevant
also in the light of the recent peak of interest in facets by
information architects and knowledge managers.

Contributors to the issue include world authorities on the subject,
as well as researchers involved in current projects on the
application of facet analysis: Clare Beghtol, Brian Vickery,
Ingetraut Dahlberg, Claudio Gnoli, Vanda Broughton, Douglas Tudhope &
Ceri Binding, Alberto Cheti & Federica Paradisi, Uta Priss, Aida Slavic.

The journal contents can be accessed at
http://www.springerlink.com/content/106590/ from any institution
subscribing to Springer journal collections (please follow the link
to Volume 8 Number 2). Table of contents, abstracts, and references
are freely available to anyone.

Dissemination of the present information among information
professionals is particularly welcome, as the journal is known mostly
among philosophy readers. We hope to contribute a better reciprocal
knowledge of the two communities, given the interdisciplinary
interest of the subject. People interested in writing a review are
welcome to contact me for more information.

Thank you for your attention,

Claudio Gnoli
University of Pavia (Italy)
http://mate.unipv.it/gnoli/

(Apologies for cross-posting.)


Dear colleagues,

a special issue devoted to Facet analysis has just been published in
Axiomathes, an international journal in ontology and cognitive
systems, edited by Roberto Poli and published by Springer.

The issue is oriented towards the exploration of potential
connections between facet analysis, a methodology originally
developed in library science, and other disciplines, including
philosophy, linguistics, and computer science. This looks relevant
also in the light of the recent peak of interest in facets by
information architects and knowledge managers.

Contributors to the issue include world authorities on the subject,
as well as researchers involved in current projects on the
application of facet analysis: Clare Beghtol, Brian Vickery,
Ingetraut Dahlberg, Claudio Gnoli, Vanda Broughton, Douglas Tudhope &
Ceri Binding, Alberto Cheti & Federica Paradisi, Uta Priss, Aida Slavic.

The journal contents can be accessed at
http://www.springerlink.com/content/106590/ from any institution
subscribing to Springer journal collections (please follow the link
to Volume 8 Number 2). Table of contents, abstracts, and references
are freely available to anyone.

Dissemination of the present information among information
professionals is particularly welcome, as the journal is known mostly
among philosophy readers. We hope to contribute a better reciprocal
knowledge of the two communities, given the interdisciplinary
interest of the subject. People interested in writing a review are
welcome to contact me for more information.

Thank you for your attention,

Claudio Gnoli
University of Pavia (Italy)
http://mate.unipv.it/gnoli/

W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group

We are pleased to announce the publication of the SKOS Reference as a
W3C First Public Working Draft:

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-reference-20080125/

This is a substantial update to and replacement for the previous SKOS
Core Vocabulary Specification W3C Working Draft dated 2 November 2005
[1].

We ask at this stage feedback and reviews on this draft specification.
All comments are welcome and may be sent to public-swd-wg@...; please
include the text "SKOS comment" in the subject line. Note especially
that there are a number of open issues, which are indicated in the
document. Please forward this announcement to any other groups which may
be interested.

Abstract:

"""
This document defines the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), a
common data model for sharing and linking knowledge organization systems
via the Semantic Web.

Many knowledge organization systems, such as thesauri, taxonomies,
classification schemes and subject heading systems, share a similar
structure, and are used in similar applications. SKOS captures much of
this similarity and makes it explicit, to enable data and technology
sharing across diverse applications.

The SKOS data model provides a standard, low-cost migration path for
porting existing knowledge organization systems to the Semantic Web.
SKOS also provides a light weight, intuitive language for developing and
sharing new knowledge organization systems. It may be used on its own,
or in combination with formal knowledge representation languages such as
the Web Ontology language (OWL).

This document is the normative specification of the Simple Knowledge
Organization System. It is intended for readers who are involved in the
design and implementation of information systems, and who already have a
good understanding of Semantic Web technology, especially RDF and OWL.

For an informative guide to using SKOS, see the upcoming SKOS Primer.
"""

For more information on SKOS, the Semantic Web Deployment Working Group,
or the W3C Semantic Web Activity, please see the following links:

  http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos
  http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
  http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/

Kind regards,

Alistair.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-spec-20051102/

--
Alistair Miles
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Science and Innovation Campus
Didcot
Oxfordshire
OX11 0QX
United Kingdom
Web: http://purl.org/net/aliman
Email: a.j.miles@...
Tel: +44 (0)1235 445440

Dear Professional Colleagues,

I have put up another write-up

"WEB IS A FOREST ...  SEMANTIC WEB A JAPANESE GARDEN ?
" and have tried to indicate how a Facet Analyzed
Subject Heading could be used to form a "Map of the
web" or several subject-specific World Wide Web Maps.

It is available at:
http://www.geocities.com/devadason.geo/SemanticJapaneseGarden.htm

I would appreciate your comments and I request your
help in making it known to others interested  in this
area. You are free to submit this information to any
blog, discussion list, e-mail groups etc., as you
think fit.

Thank you very much

Warm regards

F.J. Devadason


      
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Greetings .

After browsing through works on "Ontology"

I have provided the full text of my 1985 paper
"Online Construction of Alphabetic Classaurus"

at:

http://www.geocities.com/devadason.geo/OnlineClassaurus.htm

If this paper is of interest,  you may bring it to the
notice of any one who would also like to have a look
at it.

Thanks

Francis Devadason



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I got an invite from someone and then went through the registration
process which checks your contacts from GMail list as part of the
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Little did I know that below the fold, it included every email
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The 4th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM 2007),
Vienna, Austria, August 27-28, 2007

WWW.ickm2007.org

Call for Papers and Presentations
Submission Deadline: March 30th 2007
Authors and speakers are invited to submit regular papers, abstracts,
posters, and proposals for PowerPoint presentations addressing completed
research papers, research in progress, position papers, case studies and
best practices to the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Management
to be held in Vienna, Austria from August 27-28, 2007. Completed papers will
be reviewed and published in a hard cover bound book as part of the series
on Innovation and Knowledge Management published by World Scientific.



PowerPoint presentations, case studies, position papers and best practices
are intended for practitioners and students who do not have the time to
write complete paper at this point. However, those who will be able to turn
their presentations into complete papers before or after the conference,
they are invited to send the completed papers to the Journal of Information
and Knowledge Management. The submitted papers will be reviews according to
the journal guidelines and published in a special Issue of JIKM.



Topics of Interest

Authors are invited to submit papers, abstract, posters, position papers and
proposals for PowerPoint presentations on all aspects of knowledge
management. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:


Knowledge Management Processes
Best Practices
Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration
Data Mining (store/discover/propagate)
Technologies for Knowledge Sharing
Learning Technologies
Management and Measurement of Intangibles
Optimization of Organizations (Business Process Management)
Assessment Methods
Innovation Methods
Social Networks and Psychological Dimensions
Case Studies on Collaboration
Tools for Knowledge Management
Learning Organization.
Submission Deadline: March 30th 2007

Click on the link below to go to the submission website:

https://www.softconf.com/starts/ickm07

Aelera Corporation (Alpharetta, Georgia) needs a hands-on specialist in
development and management of RDF data for corporate taxonomies and
ontologies for the following key activities:

1. Development and management of internal Aelera KM resources.

2. Development and management of a knowledge resource devoted to Regional
Economic Development and Competitiveness.

3. Ad hoc development and management of semantic metadata supporting
Software as a Service (SaaS) projects.

4. Applications of Text Analytics to all of these requirements.



Key requirements for such a person will be:


* Experience in development of semantic metadata for/categorization of
enterprise content resources, sometimes referred to as "corporate
taxonomies."

* Hands-on knowledge of XML, including use of XML Schema and creation of
XSLT files.

* Good communication skills.

* Understanding of relational databases.

* Ability to work in fast-paced environment.

* BA+


Plusses:

* Knowledge of faceted classification and computer ontologies, including
Protege-OWL

* Experience in use of Text Mining (Text Analytics) applications

* Library science background

* Knowledge of document-management systems

* Experience with KM activities


Please contact Peter West (Peter.West@...).


Philip C. Murray
Knowledge Architect
Aelera Corp.