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Review of 'Innovations in Information Retrieval: Perspectives for Theory and Practice'

2011-12-06T18:57:00.001Z

Edited by Allen Foster and Pauline Rafferty 2011, London: Facet, 224pp, £44.95, ISBN 978-1-85604-697-8 When I recently told a fellow librarian I was reviewing a book on information retrieval (IR) she denied that the concept had any relevance to librarianship any more – it’s now (allegedly) all about the fuzzier and friendlier ‘resource discovery’. IR has always been a particular interest of

Metadata for Digital Collections - book review

2011-11-15T18:16:00.005Z

Review of Metadata for Digital Collections: A How-to-do-it Manual By Stephen J Miller, London:Facet Publishing, 2011. 364 ppISBN 978-1-85604-771-5 Price £54.95 Paperback Metadata – a word that many in the library and informationcommunities found quite frightening a few years ago, and maybe even today! We all knew what metadata was, its simple definition had been drummed into us and we could

Library of Congress looks to Replace MARC

2011-11-01T18:52:00.002Z

A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital AgeThe new bibliographic framework project will be focused on the Web environment, Linked Data principles and mechanisms, and the Resource Description Framework (RDF) as a basic data model. The protocols and ideas behind Linked Data are natural exchange mechanisms for the Web that have found substantial resonance even beyond the cultural

Health information

2011-10-15T17:37:00.004Z

Health information is a hot topic and getting hotter following the controversial Health and Social Care Bill and the collapse of the previous government's plan to build a national health records service and IT network. Meanwhile, an ageing population on the one hand and increasingly complex scientific and medical knowledge on the other means that health information issues are going to become more

Slides and audio recordings online - Classification & Ontology

2011-09-30T21:37:00.001Z

Classification & Ontology: Formal Approaches and Access to Knowledge, was the third biennial conference in a series of UDC Seminars organized by the UDC Consortium and hosted by Koninklijke Bibliotheek. The conference took place on 19-20 September 2011 and was attended by 141 delegates from 30 countries from Europe, Asia, North America, South America and Australia. The keynote address by

UKeiG names Professor Alan Smeaton as the 2011 Tony Kent Strix Award winner

2011-09-30T08:36:00.000Z

UKeiG is delighted to announce this year’s winner of the UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award.Professor Alan Smeaton of the School of Computing, Dublin City University is a worthy winner of this prestigious award with sustained contributions in the field of natural language processing techniques for textual information retrieval as well as in the indexing and retrieval of image, audio and video data. He

Defragmentation of the Information Professions

2011-09-25T12:52:00.002Z

Since August 2010 there has been some discussion and debate within CILIP and some other groups about how the information professions seem to be increasingly fragmenting into different specialist interest groups with no over-arching organization to pull them together. ISKO UK has been asked to offer its opinions and possibly support for the setting up of some kind of umbrella group that could

International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA)

2011-09-12T09:15:00.004Z

I attended the 42nd conference of IASA in Frankfurt last week and spoke to the Organising Knowledge Task Torce. There is a lot of interest in semantic metadata and Linked Open Data in particular amongst the archival community. Some archivists are already well versed in Semantic Web techniques and technologies, others are just beginning to think about how to make their collections findable online,

Classification & Ontology, 19-20 September, The Hague

2011-08-13T13:18:00.005Z

Invitation... CLASSIFICATION & ONTOLOGY: Formal Approaches and Access to Knowledge International UDC Seminar 2011 9-20 September, The Hague, Netherlands VENUE: Koninklijke Bibliotheek FEE: €200 (€170 students) The conference fee includes the conference proceedings book published by Ergon Verlag, refreshments, reception and two lunches. To secure your place at this event register online.

IC-ININFO 2011: International Conference on Integrated Information

2011-08-07T16:48:00.004Z

IC-ININFO-2011 is an international interdisciplinary conference covering research and development in the field of information management and integration. Furthermore, IC-ININFO-2011 aims to bring together scientists, engineers and product designers in order to fill the gap between research and development.The conference will be held from 29 September to 3 October on the Greek island of KOS.

Review of Conference - Facets of Knowledge Organization

2011-07-11T18:29:00.003Z

The second biennial ISKO UK Conference now has a full review on its own blog page.

Facets of Knowledge Organization - ISKO UK Conference 2011

2011-07-06T17:38:00.004Z

The second biennial conference, in honour of the life and achievements of Brian C. Vickery, was a great success. Opening with an insightful address by Stephen Robertson, from Microsoft Research, on On Retrieval System Theory, the conference attracted a wide range of speakers, poster presenters, and attendees. Highlights included the keynote addresses by Professor Amanda Spink, Liz Orna, and

NOW is the time to nominate for UKeiG Awards

2011-06-27T10:15:00.003Z

Each year UKeiG makes two awards: the UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award and the UKeiG Jason Farradane Award. Nominations are sought during the Spring and Summer, with the Strix Award closing on 26th August and the Farradane Award closing on Friday, 21st October.See http://www.ukeig.org.uk/news/ukeig-awards-time-nominate-now

UKeiG seeks the 2011 nominations for its Jason Farradane Award

2011-05-04T09:00:00.004Z

The UKeiG Jason Farradane Award is made to an individual or a group of people in recognition of outstanding work in the information profession. The Award embraces activities in the information profession in its widest sense, while the UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award focuses more narrowly on information retrieval.The Award is given in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the information

Social metadata for libraries, archives and museums: Research findings

2011-04-17T18:01:00.003Z

The results of a joint research project by OCLC and National Library of Australia are discussed in a presentation to the Libraries Australia 2010 forum, October 20, 2010. Ten percent of the respondents in the survey were UK-based.The research generated three reports:Website reviews, and use of third party sites (150 pp.)Analysis of website manager survey results (50 pp.)Recommendations for social

Review of the Public Access to Information event

2011-04-14T20:26:00.005Z

Public Access to Information? Challenges for Information Gatekeepers was a joint event between ISKO UK and Taxonomies in the Public Sector (TiPS). Michael Warner opened with a short description of TiPS, a discussion and, networking group that seeks to influence government in information issues. The group was established four years ago and welcomes new members.The Ins and Outs of Information

UKeiG seeks the 2011 nominations for the prestigious UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award.

2011-02-23T16:00:00.004Z

The UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award is given in recognition of an outstanding practical innovation or achievement in the field of information retrieval. This could take the form of an application or service, or an overall appreciation of past achievements from which significant advances have emanated. The Award is open to individuals or groups from anywhere in the world. The deadline for

ISKO UK Meeting - Public Access to Information, London 14th April 2011

2011-02-12T19:09:00.005Z

We are pleased to invite you to the next ISKO UK open meeting to be held on 14th April 2011 entitled Public Access to Information? Challenges for information gatekeepers.This ISKO UK event is organized in cooperation with Taxonomies in the Public Sector and UCL Department for Information Studies.Speakers are Christopher Graham (UK Information Commissioner), Carol Tullo (The National Archives),

Newsletter, December issue - IFLA Classification & Indexing Section

2011-01-17T12:48:00.006Z

[courtesy of David Miller]The latest issue of the issue of the Classification and Indexing Section Newsletter is now available. The contents include: A Few Words from the Chair Classification and Indexing Section Report Reports: IFLA Namespaces Task Group; UDC News in 2010; Dewey Decimal Classification News News from... Czechia, Italy, Portugal, United States (Library of Congress) More News:

Booking for July conference starts soon

2011-01-17T10:46:00.003Z

Look out for the start of registration for the ISKO UK 2011 Conference which will open soon.As well as invited papers, submissions are being reviewed and the programme will be finalised at the beginning of February. Booking starts from Feb 7th 2011.We expect a diverse international programme of presentations and posters on knowledge organisation, with key themes of:Classification, information

Review of conference paper submissions

2010-12-31T18:30:00.008Z

The Conference Review Panel have been busy reviewing submissions of proposals of papers and posters for the forthcoming ISKO UK 2011 Conference. The proposals cover a huge range of fascinating topics, from analyses of broad cultural issues to technical descriptions of metadata projects and software developments. A noticeable trend is the huge amount of innovation that is taking place in

CFP: Classification & Ontology, 19-20 September, The Hague

2010-11-22T21:49:00.006Z

International UDC Seminar 2011CLASSIFICATION & ONTOLOGY Formal Approaches and Access to KnowledgeVENUE: The Hague, National Library of the NetherlandsDATE: 19-20 September 2011WEBSITE: http://seminar.udcc.org/2011/CONTACT: seminar2011@udcc.orgThe difference between bibliographic knowledge classifications and ontologies resides in their particular purpose/function, and levels of

Event Report - Legal Know-How: Organization and Semantic Analysis

2010-11-15T14:11:00.010Z

ISKO UK afternoon event Legal Know-How: Organization and Semantic Analysis took place on Wednesday 10 November 2010 at University College London.This was yet another successful ISKO UK event exploring the topic of knowledge and information organization practices in specilised domains. There were over 80 participants in attendance. Speakers included legal knowledge specialists from 3Kites

Linked Data Conference - a very successful event

2010-09-15T19:31:00.007Z

Linked Data: the future of knowledge organization on the WebBy Fran AlexanderISKO UK events consistently manage to cram in about twice as much content as seems possible given the time. With enough material for at least a two-day conference, no fewer than nine speakers and two poster presenters made for a packed day that provided a pleasing mix of fine technical detail, practical advice, and some

Invitation: ISKO UK event " Legal Know-How", 10 November 2010

2010-09-08T16:12:00.009Z

You are cordially invited to the next ISKO UK KOnnecting KOmmunities afternoon meeting Date: 10 November 2010. Venue: University College LondonFee: £20 (free for ISKO members and students)A number of specialists from the field of legal information are invited to talk about the ways law firms are organizing their know-how, how automated methods for extracting information from text are utilized

Bob McKee, 1950-2010

2010-08-20T20:12:00.003Z

It is with regret that we note the sudden death of Bob McKee, Chief Executive of CILIP and a prominent personality in the UK library community for many years. Bob was Chief Executive of the Library Association when it merged with the Institute of Information Scientists in 2002.Amongst the many roles he undertook, he was a member of the Executive Committee and Governing Board of IFLA, the

Building and Exploiting Taxonomies, 22 October 2010, Manchester

2010-08-14T23:16:00.003Z