Slides and audio recordings online - Classification & Ontology

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 Patrick Hayes kick-started a two-day programme consisting of 21 talks and two poster presentations.

Excellent input from all speakers combined with a very engaged audience made this conference an important and successful event. The meeting of semantic technology specialists and classificationists, inspired many interesting discussions and gave us plenty of ideas and topics for the next UDC Seminar.

Slides and audio recordings can be accessed from the conference programme page.

Proceedings, published by Ergon can be purchased online on the conference website.

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

International UDC Seminar 2011
CLASSIFICATION & ONTOLOGY
Formal Approaches and Access to Knowledge

VENUE: The Hague, National Library of the Netherlands
DATE: 19-20 September 2011
WEBSITE: http://seminar.udcc.org/2011/
CONTACT: seminar2011@udcc.org

The difference between bibliographic knowledge classifications and ontologies resides in their particular purpose/function, and levels of formality. However, they are both based on observation and reasoning (ontological analysis) and share some structural principles and elements.

Automatic processing of knowledge classifications is significant whenever there is a need to support intuitive services. For instance, ontology-like representations of classifications are recognized as potentially important facilitators in creating a web of linked data (the semantic web).

The objective of the conference is to promote collaboration and exchange of expertise between the bibliographic, the semantic web and the AI domains.

Papers are now invited covering the following topics:

• Modelling and representation of knowledge classifications
• Standards and solutions for innovative and high-quality classification data processing
• Applications and implementations of classification structures as ontologies
• Theoretical considerations of the role of knowledge classifications

Read call for papers more at the conference website or download the print version (pdf).

Contributions may include conference papers and posters. Authors should submit a proposal in the form of an extended abstract (1000-1200 words including references, for papers, and 500-600 words for posters).

IMPORTANT DATES:

30 Jan 2011 Paper proposal submission deadline
28 Feb 2011 Notification of acceptance
01 Apr 2011 Paper submission

Conference proceedings will be published by Ergon Verlag and will be distributed at the conference.

ORGANIZER: Classification & Ontology is the third biennial conference in a series of UDC Seminars organized by the Universal Decimal Classification Consortium (UDC Consortium) and hosted by Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The National Library of Netherlands).

Belle Époque in Europe: Organizing knowledge... , Mons (Belgium), 20-21 May 2010

Transcending Boundaries in Europe in the Period of the Belle Époque: Organizing Knowledge, Mobilizing Networks, and Effecting Social Change

VENUE: Mundaneum, Mons (Belgium), 20-21 May 2010
FEE: 70 EUR
TO REGISTER: conference website

The Belle Epoque is a turbulent period in Western European history between about 1880 and 1914 characterized by an emerging modernization in social and political organization, artistic and literary life and in the conduct and discoveries of the sciences.

Papers for the colloquium will explore aspects of network development, information creation, organization and exchange, and related “boundary spanning” activities of individuals and institutions and the scholarly tools and techniques that enabled them to develop during the period of the “Belle époque” in which the Western European world underwent extensive social, political and “epistemic” change.

PAPERS (PROGRAMME):

• Dave Muddiman: Imperialism, Trade and the Beginnings of Business Information: the Commercial Intelligence Bureau of the Imperial Institute, London, 1887-1903
• Alistair Black: An Information Management tool for the Dismantling of Internal Barries in Expanding and Internationalising Companies : The Staff Magazine in Britain before de First World War
• Heather Gaunt: Information, the archive, and the Australian colonies
• Hartman Frank: World Communication Cables and Ernst Kapp‘s Philosophy of Technology
• Volker Barth: World News Order: Structures and Conditions of International Communication, 1859-1940
• Christophe Verbruggen & Julie Carlier: The transcending advocacy network of Les Documents du Progrès (1907): a comparison of laboratories of social thought
• Noémie Goldamn: Art and Politics. The XX (1894-1914) and their transboundary cultural networks
• Wouter Van Acker: Paul Otlet and the International Sociology of Intellectual Work
• Mary Carroll & Sue Reynolds: The Great Classification Battle of 1910: A Tale of “Blunders and Bizzareries” at the Melbourne Public Library
• Damiano Matasci: Transnational Networks and School Reforms in France during the Belle Époque Period (1880-1914)
• Mary Niles Maack: From the Classified Catalog to Open Shelf Libraries: Americans in Paris
• Valérie Montens: The Royal Belgian Commission for International Exchanges: creation, organization and activities of an international artistic network (1871-1919)
• Jan Vandersmissen: How King Leopold II used Emile de Laveleye’s intellectual network for the benefit of his African project
• Françoise Levie: Punch-up at the Palais Mondial ; an analysis of the buried and contradictory tensions that came into conflict at the second Panafrican Congress in Brussels in 1921
• M. Herve Hasquin: Une Belgique avant-gardiste
• Bruno Notteboom: Paysage urbain. Louis Van der Swaelmen and the classification of the urban, rural and national problem in Préliminaires d’Art Civique
• Sophie Hochhäusl: From Mulhall to Brinton, From Number Charts to Picture Statistics
• Nader Vossoughian: Architecture, Type, and the Rethinking of the Humanist Tradition during the Belle Époque
• Geert Somsen: Uniting the World through Science: Pieter Eijkman’s World Capital in The Hague
• Jan Surman: Divided Space – Divided Science? The Variety of Boundaries in Habsburg Empire and their Influence on Science Before the First World War
• Daniel Laqua: Scientific Pacifism’ in the Belle Époque: Alfred H. Fried’s Efforts to Promote Peace across National Borders
• Markus Krajewski: Organising a Global Idiom. Esperanto, Ido and the World Auxiliary Language Movement before WWI
• Fabian de Kloe: Beyond Babel: Science and International language during the Belle Époque
• Mikel Breitenstein: Unity Through Language: BASIC English by C. K. Ogden
• Alex Csiszar: Material Practices of Unity: The International Catalogue of Scientific Literature in Action
• Paul Servais: Scientific Networks and International Congresses; Orientalists before the First World War
• Charles van den Heuvel: Transcending Networks – Transcending Classifications (1905-1935)

Conference Outputs "Classification at a Crossroads"

The International UDC Seminar 2009 entitled "Classification at a Crossroads - multiple directions to usability" took place in the Koninklijke Bibiotheek in The Hague on 29-30 October 2009.

There were 135 delegates in attendance from 32 countries.

The highlights of the conference programme include keynote addresses by Dagobert Soergel: "Illuminating chaos: using classification to harness the Web" and Dan Brickley: "Open Web standards and classification: foundations for a hybrid approach", but a number of other talks reinforced the message put forward by Dagobert and Dan in terms of the relevance of classification schemes for resource discovery and for creating a web of linked data.

Slides and mp3 recordings of these and the other twenty talks are now available from the conference website.

Recordings by Dan Brickley and Jakob Voss are also available in Slideshare and have been synchronised with their presentation slides, which colleagues may find especially interesting. Both talks contain some inspiring ideas that relate classification schemes and semantic technologies.

Last call for registration: Classification at a Crossroads

Classification at a Crossroads: Multiple Directions to Usability
Internatinal UDC Seminar
The Hague, 29-30 October 2009.

The final Programme with abstracts and speakers' biographies containing a selection of 22 talks is now available.

This conference will cover a variety of topics: classification of web resources, automatic classification, relationships between thesaurus and classification, terminology services, web ontology standards, some new approaches in using or presenting classification and classification use in library networks.

The programme highlights are talks by our keynote speakers Dagobert Soergel "Illuminating the Chaos: Using Classification to Harness the Web" and Dan Brickley "Open Web Standards and Classification: Foundations for a Hybrid Approach".

A recent addition to the programme is a presentation by Stella Dextre Clarke "Providing for interoperability between thesauri and classification schemes in ISO 25964" on the new ISO standard for structured vocabularies and its approach to classification.

Ergon Verlag will exhibit and sell books from its series Advances in Knowledge Organization at a special 50% discount. All delegates are given 20% discount to Facet Publishing Titles. Both publishers contributed a number of books for a lottery draw and delegates will have a chance to win a book.

The registration for the conference will close on 20th October. To register, with an option to pay online go to http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/php/registration.php.

EARLY BIRD CLOSE: Content Architecture, ISKO UK 2009 Conference

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT CLOSES 31 MARCH 2009

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 - if registration is completed and payment received by ISKO UK on or before 31st March.

135 GBP
115 GBP (ISKO members, speakers and students)

To avoid delays, excessive and uncertain bank charges and exchange rate problems, payment by PayPal using a debit or credit card is strongly recommended for delegates from outside the UK. Those within the UK can also pay by bank transfer or by sending a cheque (if you trust first class post to deliver it in time!).

For payments received after 31st March, the fees are

165 GBP
135 GBP (ISKO members, speakers and students)

See the complete conference programme.

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 registration page.

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

Invitation "Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources" Conference

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

Venue: University College London.

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

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

Early Bird Fee (to 31st March):

£135 GBP
£115 GBP (ISKO members, students)

To take advantage of the early bird discount, register as soon as you can on the conference webiste.

Conference: A Picture's Worth a Thousand Euros - Return on Investment?

The "A Picture's Worth a Thousand Euros - Return on Investment?" event will be held at The Royal Thames Yacht Club, London, 28-29 January 2009.

Bridgeman Art Library, Collections Trust and Electric Lane are promoting industry-wide collaboration with The MILE (Metadata for Image Library Exploitation) Project to develop company infrastructure and commercial strategy, at this key event held at The Royal Thames Yacht Club, London.

“Running a picture library isn’t economic for many museums. These museums should either work together as a collective, or use an established commercial provider."
Nick Poole, Collections Trust

This event will challenge current working practices, exploring stakeholders’ and users’ needs in relation to workflow systems and productivity, and examining the commercial case for a unified approach to metadata classification.

Attendance includes lunch and refreshments and costs only £30!

To register contact lucy.geering@bridgemanart.co.uk

CFP: Classification at a Crossroads, The Hague, 29-30 October 2009

The International UDC Seminar 2009 entitled "Classification at a Crossroads: Multiple Directions to Usability" will take place on 29-30 October 2009 in the UDC Consortium headqarters in The Hague.

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

Papers and posters are now invited covering the following topics:

Classification and semantic technologies, e.g. experiences with vocabulary standards for expressing and porting classification data into the Semantic Web, vocabulary registries, terminology services
Classification in supporting information integration, e.g. classification use in alignment of vocabularies, classification as a common subject language in co-operative systems, experiences in multi-database systems, classification mapping to other subject languages, classification enhancement with social tagging
Verbal and multilingual access to classification, e.g. textual searching and display, management of subject-alphabetical indexes, extraction of thesauri from classification schemes
Classification authority control and library systems, e.g. issues with MARC formats, authority file development, maintenance and sharing of data
Visual representations/interface to classification, e.g. issues in classification browsing and faceted representation in classification tools and information systems
Experiences with classification outside the traditional library environment, e.g. use in different types of digital repositories (eprints, VLE), resource discovery on the Web, alerting services, specialised bibliographic services and databases, organization of physical objects etc.

The International UDC Seminar 2009 is 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.

To read more about conference and to submit abstracts (300-500 words) go to the conference website conference webiste.

CFP: ISKO UK Conference 2009

Call for papers is now opened for the

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 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 . 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!

To read more about the conference and to submit your abstract, go to the conference website.

Announcement: Cataloguing and Indexing Group Conference, Glasgow, September 2008

CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Conference entitled "Classification and subject retrieval in the 21st century: you can't make jelly without a mould" will take place at the The University of Strathclyde on 3 - 5 September 2008

The CIG conference 2008 web pages are now available at:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/CIG/2008/conf-glasgow/

Online booking is now open.

135 years after Melvil Dewey first had the idea for his classification scheme and with the exponential growth of new information storage and retrieval systems we are still wrestling with finding the right way to get things in order - on the shelves and in those very systems - and then to enable people to find them when they search. This conference is intended to explore current developments in classification and subject retrieval. The conference programme will cover both the longstanding methods - such as traditional classification schemes - right up to social networking and 'bleeding edge' ideas. The conference will also include the CIG AGM and Annual Standards Forum.

Following a call for papers, the conference programme is now in place. Papers will be considered for publication in Catalogue and Index following the conference. Powerpoint or similar presentation files, that accompany papers, will be published on the CIG website.

The varied programme of presentations and updates on standards will be complemented by opportunities to network with fellow professionals.

CFP: CILIP Cataloguing & Indexing Group Annual Conference 2008

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

“Classification and subject retrieval in the 21st Century: You can’t make a jelly without a mould"

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow 3-5 September 2008

135 years after Melvil Dewey first had the idea for his classification scheme and with the exponential growth of new information storage and retrieval systems we are still wrestling with finding the right way to get things in order- on the shelves and in those very systems – and then to enable people to find them when they search. This conference is intended to explore current developments in classification and subject retrieval. We hope to cover both the longstanding methods – such as traditional classification schemes - right up to social networking and ‘bleeding edge’ ideas. The conference will also include the CIG AGM and Annual Standards Forum.

Call for Papers: Proposals for papers are invited for the CIG/ CIGS Annual Conference 2008, “Classification and subject retrieval in the 21st Century: You can’t make a jelly without a mould.” To be held at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow from 3-5 September 2008.

Proposals for papers should be submitted to Andrew Coburn no later than Friday 29 February 2008. Please complete the attached form. Papers should be 30-45 minutes in length. Papers will be considered for publication in Catalogue & Index following the conference. If the presentation of the paper is accompanied by a PowerPoint or similar presentation, CIG will publish the presentation on its Website.

Submissions will be evaluated by the CIG committee and notification of the selection decisions will be made during March 2008. Please note that CIG will reimburse any reasonable travel and accommodation expenses incurred by invited speakers.

Press release - 11th conference of the German chapter of ISKO held in Constance 20-22 February 2008

The 11th conference of the German chapter of ISKO took place from 20 to 22 February 2008 in Constance. The conference was entitled Knowledge Organization 2008 - "Repositories of knowledge in digital spaces: Accessibility, sustainability, semantic interoperability" (Wissensorganisation'2008 - Wissensspeicher in digitalen Räumen: Nachhaltigkeit, Verfügbarkeit, semantische Interoperabilität).

There were 33 papers presented and over 70 participants in attendance. The Discussion Panel session 'Standardizing Heterogeneity', moderated by Peter Ohly, took place on 21st February. The speakers were Winfried Schmitz-Esser (University of Insbruck), Daniel Kless (University of Utrecht), Vivien Petras (German Social Science Infrastructure Services, Information Centre Bonn) and Ulrich Reimer(Technical College, St. Gallen). On the last day of the conference there was an English speaking session with Thomas H. Baker (Göttingen), Aida Slavic (London), Claudio Gnoli (Pavia), and Markus Kattenbeck (Regensburg).

A selection of photographs from the Constance conference are available at http://www.bonn.iz-soz.de/wiss-org/WissOrg11Fotos/.
Abstracts of the talks will be made available at http://www2.bsz-bw.de/cms/isko2008.

The Proceedings of the 11th German ISKO Conference are now in preparation and are planned to be published in 2008.

We are also pleased to announce that the newely elected members of the executive committee of the German ISKO are Joern Sieglerschmidt, Peter Ohly and Christian Swertz.

The next, 12th German ISKO conference with the theme "Knowledge - Science - Organization" will be held in Bonn at the end of 2009.

Strong UK representation at IBERSID 2007

Several ISKO UK members attended IBERSID 2007 (the XII International Conference on Information and Documentation Systems) in Zaragoza in early October. They were there to speak as well as to listen. Of 12 speakers in a day-long special session entitled Ontologies: principles and practice, five were from the UK, three of them ISKO UK members. The session was chaired by ISKO UK founder member Alan Gilchrist.

The papers presented in the ontology session were:

Ontologies: modelling and logic - Alan Flett, (Senior Consultant, TFPL)
From thesauri to ontologies: the challenges of standardisation - Stella Dextre Clarke (Information consultant)
Topic Maps: Theory and Practice - Bob Bater (ISKO UK Vice-chair & Principal Associate, InfoPlex Associates)
Semantic Web for the Public Sector - Dr. Harith Alani (University of Southampton)
The Lexical Constructional Model: the general architecture - Prof. Dr. Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez (Universidad de La Rioja, Spain) & Prof. Dr. Ricardo Mairal Usón (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain)
Cognitive Linguistics and Language: Guided Ontology Construction - Prof. Dr. Tony Veale (University College Dublin, RoI)
Ontologies and the semantic web: problems and perspectives for LIS professionals - Mtro. Javier Calzada Prado (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
A descriptive algorithm for a wine tasting lexicon corpus - Dña. Margarita Goded Rambaud (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain)
Contributions for an Improvement of the Children’s Catalogue in the Public Library - Mtra. Sandra Cosme (Universidade de Évora, Portugal)

These papers are not included in the main conference proceedings, but may be published separately next year.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications

DC-2007: International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications “Application Profiles and their Application in Practice” took place from 27 to 31 August 2007 in Singapore.
A report on the conference by Ann Apps is available here.

DCMI has just published the online version of the DC-2007 proceedings.



Papers

• Parallel writing in East Asian languages and its representation in metadata in light of the DCMI Abstract Model (pp. 1-9) by Akira Miyazawa



• Annotation Profiles: Configuring Forms to Edit RDF (pp. 10-21) by Matthias Palmér, Fredrik Enoksson, Mikael Nilsson, Ambjörn Naeve
  
  
• Theory and Practice of Application Profile Development (pp. 43-52) by Jon Mason, Helen Galatis
  
  
• Application Profiles: Exposing and Enforcing Metadata Quality (pp. 52-62) by Diane Ileana Hillmann, Jon Phipps



• Using an Application Profile Based Service Registry (pp. 63-73) by Ann Apps



• Identifying the Identifiers (pp. 74-84) by Douglas Campbell



• Using Metadata Schema Registry as a Core Function to Enhance Usability and Reusability of Metadata Schemas (pp. 85-95) by Mitsuharu Nagamori, Shigeo Sugimoto



• Virtual Archival Exhibition System: An Authoring Tool for Developing Web-based Virtual Exhibitions (pp. 96-105) by Ruan Yang, Chennupati K. Ramaiah, Schubert Foo



• Integrating Dublin Core Metadata for Cultural Heritage Collections Using Ontologies (pp. 128-139) by Constantia Kakali, Irene Lourdi, Thomais Stasinopoulou, Lina Bountouri, Christos Papatheodorou, Martin Doerr, Manolis Gergatsoulis



• Can a System Make Novice Users Experts? Important Factors for Automatic Metadata Generation Systems (pp. 140-150) by Sueyeon Syn, Michael B. Spring

Project Reports

• SCROL Application Profile (pp. 22-29) by Steven Wan Wu, Barbara Reed, Paul Loke



• The DCMI Tools Application Profile (pp. 30-34) by Thomas Severiens, Jane Greenberg


The DRIADE Project: Phased Application Profile Development in Support of Open Science (pp. 35-42) by Jane Greenberg, Sarah Carrier, Jed Dube


• Education.au and Metadata for Events (pp. 106-115) by Pru Mitchell



• Integrating Dublin Core and Learning Object Metadata for Describing Learning Objects for Enhanced Reusability (pp. 116-122) by Abdul Halim Abdul, Abdus Sattar Chaudhy, Christopher S.G. Khoo



• Audience-Centric Taxonomy: Using taxonomies to Support Heterogeneous User Communities (pp. 123-127) by Dave Clarke, Pei Jiun Tan
  

CFP - Tenth International ISKO Conference, Montreal 5-8 Aug 2008

Official Call for Papers is now open for:

10th biennial International ISKO Conference "Culture and Identity in Knowledge Organization"
5-8 August 2008

The conference is organised and hosted by the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information, Université de Montréal.

The proposed research topics include:
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Epistemological Foundations in KO
­ Models and Methods
­ Systems and Tools ­ Ethics
­ KO for Libraries, Archives, and Museums
­ Non-Textual Materials
­ KO in Multilingual Environments
­ Users and Social Context
­ Discourse Communities and KO
­ KO for Information Management and Retrieval
­ Evaluation

Types of Contributions Accepted: research papers, posters, and workshop proposals. See detailed instructions here

Important Dates
­ Abstract submission, deadline: November 9th 2007.
­ Notification of acceptance of paper submissions: December 14th 2007.
­ Notification of acceptance of posters: January 18th 2008.
­ Camera ready papers due in MS Word/RTF format: 1st March 2008.


Contact: isko2008@gmail.com

Press release: North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization

Courtesy of Joe Tennis:

The first symposium North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization took place at the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto, on 14-15 June 2007. There were forty participants. Researchers contributed papers and posters, and delivered presentations over 2 days (to mention only a few R. Green, M. Kipp, K. La Barre, R. Smiraglia, J. Tennis)
The group resolved to form a North American chapter of ISKO, and are moving forward with that plan.

Papers are available in the dLIST archive.
Pictures from this event are available here .

Press release: JISC Conference on Digital Repositories

From JISC repositories discussion list:

Excerpts from a summary of the JISC Conference on Digital Repositories held in Manchester 6 June 2007:

'A major conference on digital repositories took place this week in
Manchester, attracting nearly 200 delegates from around the UK...

'Rachel Bruce, JISC programme director [said that] JISC's Digital
Repositories programme... had given significant impetus to repository
development in the UK...

'Andy Powell of the Eduserv Foundation gave the first keynote
presentation on the "Repositories Roadmap"... The vision for
2010... is increasingly "not if, but when" newly published scholarly
outputs [are] made... open access. The situation now might therefore
require us to set a more ambitious target than that of a "high
percentage"... the Web['s] role as a means of discovery and access
need[s] to be emphasised more... [C]onceptualising repositories as
websites forces us to "think about their usability, their information
architectures and their accessibility."

'Dr Keith Jeffrey of the Science and Technology Facilities Council
gave the second keynote address. The benefits of open access
repositories, he claimed, include faster "research turnaround",
improved quality for the originators of research as colleagues were
able review the research more easily, as well as improved quality for
the community in general. They also support innovation, he continued,
improve education and public engagement with science and research
and enhance an institution's standing.'

Further details of the conference, including presentations, will be available shortly.

CFP Knowledge Society: new spaces for its construction, Habana, Cuba

Courtesy of María López-Huertas:

Call for papers for
"The international conference on Information "Knowledge Society: new spaces for its construction"" - INFO' 2008
21-25 April 2008
Palacio de Convenciones de La Habana, Cuba

The conference has two main purposes: an international meeting on information and an
international workshop on business intelligence and knowledge management in companies.
Organizers: El Instituto de Información Científica y Tecnológica (IDICT) del Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Medio Ambiente de la República de Cuba.

The North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization, June 14-15, 2007

From ISKO-l and ISKOI lists:

Greetings Knowledge Organization researchers:

North American thinkers have commented on a number of changes and innovations in Knowledge Organization research. Beghtol, Mai, Smiraglia, and Svenonius have all noted a shift in knowledge organization research strategies and focus in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The task of laying the groundwork for future work is
imminent.

Likewise, the time is ripe for enhanced communication among Knowledge Organization researchers in North America. We are a diverse set of researchers interested in asking basic and applied questions on how knowledge is organized and how such organization can be improved through research. As ISKO members we are also are interested informing a North American chapter in order to share research findings, mentor students and maintain continuous conversations across the large landmass of North America.

That is why we invite you to Toronto, Ontario for the North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization, June 14 and 15, 2007.

Programme, registration, and accommodation information available:
http://www.slais.ubc.ca/users/iskona/events.html