ISKO UK event: On Location: organizing and using geospatial information

Thursday 29th March (14.00-18.00)
Wilkes Room - British Computer Society London Office

In this ISKO UK and BCS joint meeting, we will hear from experts about the current geospatial information landscape and its challenges, some of the standards and frameworks that have been put into place to ensure interoperability and the potential for linking data. We will also hear how some users of GIS systems have applied them in their own organizations.

The event is free to ISKO and BCS members and to full-time students. The fee for non-members is just £40, payable in advance. Registration opens at 1.45, immediately following the ISKO UK AGM, and we shall start promptly at 2 p.m. The programme will be followed by a chance to network, with wine and nibbles.

For full details and booking go to: http://www.iskouk.org/events/location_march2012.htm

Presentations and audio recordings - Meta Knowledge Mash-up 2007

The BCS "Knowledge, information, data and metadata management" (BCS-KIDMM) project - organized a one-day conference on 17 September 2007 entitled "Meta Knowledge Mash-up 2007: Putting information back into IT".

A Mash-up for knowledge: From an origin in Jamaican creole and the music industry, ‘mash-up’ has come to mean putting together data from different sources to produce a useful new resource. The aim of our event is to tear through the boundaries between different professional specialisms, and ‘mash-up’ the perspectives we carry from our own practice, to create something for the benefit of all.

Slideshows and audio recordings can be found at the Mash-up outputs page

Talks:

• Conrad Taylor (Electronic Publishing SG) "Introduction to the day, plus: An overview of methods of adding ‘handles and labels’ to data, information and knowledge products"
  
• Tony Rose (Infomation Retrieval SG) "Information Retrieval today: an overview of issues and methods"
  
• Tom Khazaba (SPSS) "Data Mining, Text Mining and the Predictive Enterprise"
  
• Ian Herbert (Health Informatics Forum) "Interoperability of health information, and the role of controlled vocabularies"
  
• Dan Rickman (Geospatial SG) "Geospatial information and its applications"
  
• Christopher Marsden (Victoria & Albert Museum) "The V&A’s Core Systems Integration project: Using a common data model to unify museum catalogue databases"
  
• Terry Freedman (The National Archive) "Digital preservation – what are the issues?"
  
• Leonard Will (Will Power) "Overview on subject indexing classification and thesauri"
  
• Richard Millwood (Core UK) "Enabling knowledge communities"