Recordings from the ISKO UK 2009 Conference "Content Architecture"

Recordings of a selection of talks from the ISKO UK Conference "Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources" 23-24 June 2009 are now available at the conference proceedings webpage.

The outputs published shortly after the conference contain abstracts, presentation files and papers - all available on the same webpage.

A selection of talks were edited and mp3 files are now available for the following:

• Keynote David Crystal: Semantic targeting: past, present and future
• Keynote Clifford Lynch: e-Research and new challenges in knowledge structuring


• Madi Solomon: Here comes everything
• Charles Inskip, Andy MacFarlane, Pauline Rafferty: Organising music for movies
• Ian Davis: Still digital images - the hardest things to classify and find
• Chris Town: Giving meaning to content through ontology based image retrieval
• Danny Budzak: Shoebox stories - online history in East London
• Tom Scott, Michael Smethurst: Building coherence at bbc.co.uk
• Brian Matthews et al : An evaluation of enhancing social tagging with a knowledge organization system
• Sarinder Kaur Kashmir Singh et al: Biodiversity information retrieval across networked data sets
• Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan: Semantic metadata annotation: tagging Medline abstracts for enhanced information access
• Paul Miller: Exploiting data in the cloud
• Chris Town, Karl Harrison: Large-scale grid computing for content-based image retrieval
• Marcia Zeng, Maja Žumer: Mapping FRSAD model and other abstract models
• Felix Boteram: Semantic interoperability in an international comprehensive knowledge organisation system
• Emad Khazraee et al: EIAH data model: semantic interoperability between distributed digital repositories

ISKO UK event "Recording the Living World"

30 March 2010 - 15.30-19.00

VENUE: University College London, Roberts Building, Torrington Place, WC1E 7JE

FEE: £5 (ISKO members and students FREE)

Creepy-crawlies, mammoths and lotus blossom, all have a place at the Natural History Museum. Today the data painstakingly collected over centuries by naturalists and other scientists are being liberated from their institutional archives, made available in rejuvenated catalogues
and published on the Web.

Diane Tough & Rita Dockery will talk about recent developments in the methods of collection description at the Museum whose library is one of the foremost resources for researchers in molecular biology, biodiversity, systematics, taxonomy, and the history of science, and consists of over one million books and half a million artworks.

Graham Higley will tell us about the Encyclopaedia of Life - an ambitious project that aims to build an online resource in which every species on earth will have its own web page. This international enterprise consists of five major projects: the Species Pages Group, the Biodiversity Informatics Group, the Scanning and Digitization Group, the Learning and Education Group, and the Biodiversity Synthesis Group. Together they are creating an unparalleled resource for the life sciences that covers every aspect of the study, research, recording and documentation of
living creatures.

This ISKO UK Seminar is organized in cooperation with the UCL Department for Information Studies.

To read more and to book your place go to the event page.

We look forward to seeing you on 30 March!