IC-ININFO 2011: International Conference on Integrated Information

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. Sessions will include:

• 4th Symposium on Business and Management and Dynamic Simulation Models supporting management strategies
• Information content preservation as outcome of Conservation of Cultural Heritage: Ethics, Methodology and Tools
• Graph Motifs in Information Networks
• Artists’ Responses to the Museum after 1900 and the Writing of Art History
• Contemporary issues in Management: Organisational Behaviour, Information Technology, Education & Hospital leadership
• Electronic Publishing: A developing landscape
• Open access repositories: self-archiving, metadata, content policies, usage
• Evidence-Based Information in Clinical Practice
• Information and Knowledge Management
• 2nd AMICUS Workshop: "Motifs in Cultural and Scientific Narratives"
• Symposium on Advances Information for Strategic Management
• Symposium on Business Management and Communication Strategies supporting Decision Making Process in Tourism Sector
• Information History: Perspectives, methods and current topics
• Divergence and convergence: information work in digital cultural memory institutions

Co-organisers of the last-mentioned session, Dr. Susan Myburgh (University of South Australia) and Dr Anna Maria Tammaro (University of Parma), have issued a Call for Papers (6 August 2011) with a deadline of 7 September. Authors of accepted papers do not necessarily have to travel to KOS.

Further information...

(Via Conrad Taylor and the KIDMM list)

Free UKeIG Intranets Forum Meeting

What would an intranet be like if it was designed by a librarian?

Free informal Intranets Forum meeting for UKeiG members
to be held at:
LAWRENCE GRAHAM LLP

4 More London Riverside

London

SE1 2AU

Thursday 19th February 2.30 – 4.30 p.m.

There will be two presentations:

Jennifer Smith, OneIS

Frustrated by the lack of good information management principles in most IT systems, Jennifer Smith, a law librarian, created OneIS. Jennifer will demonstrate the system which is due for launch in Spring 2009.

Janet Corcoran, A survey of Imperial College London Library staff intranet: process and results

Location:
A map and directions are available at http://www.lg-legal.com/contact_us/london.html

Nearest tube: London Bridge

Bookings:
If you would like to attend this meeting, please contact:
Janet Corcoran, Imperial College London j.m.corcoran@imperial.ac.uk

If you are not a member of UKeiG but would like to come along to this meeting, visit the UKeiG website http://www.ukeig.org.uk/join/index.html for joining details.

Findability - survey's shock findings

AIIM (the Association for Information and Image Management) have just completed a survey on Findability to be published soon (see their press release).

The 'shock' finding is that among more than 500 businesses surveyed, "69% of respondents report that less than half of enterprise information is searchable online".

Dan Keldsen is Director of Market Intelligence at AIIM, and his blog offers an interesting discussion of these preliminary results.

We had similar findings reported back in March by Cap Gemini in their Information Opportunities Report.

How many more of these reports do we have to suffer before people realize that actively organizing knowledge and information is the only way to ensure findability? Add your weight to the argument by submitting a comment to Dan's blog, arguing the case for knowledge organization in your organization, or by commenting on this post.

Or, preferably, all three!

Invasion of the Knowledge Organizers

London, England, 22 August 2007.

The authorities in London have issued a warning that the city is likely to be hit by several swarms of Knowledge Organizers next month. The first swarm will make landfall on 4 September, when the UK Chapter of ISKO hold their half-day seminar Tools for knowledge organization today.

Disorganized knowledge workers are advised to take extra care on 12 September, when mixed swarms of knowledge managers and data managers are forecast to hit the Charing Cross area. First to arrive will be those attending the afternoon seminar of NetIKX - the Network for Information and Knowledge Exchange - at the DWP in John Adam St., where Stella Dextre Clarke will be speaking on Standardising the language of information and knowledge management – the Agony and the Ecstasy.

Following in the early evening of the 12th., another swarm is expected to descend upon the British Computer Society's premises in Southampton Street for a meeting entitled Information, data and metadata: why they need to be managed. The meeting marks the launch of Keith Gordon's new book Principles of Data Management: Facilitating Information Sharing.

After a brief respite, we are warned that a further swarm is due to hit the Covent Garden area on 17 September in the form of the BCS KIDMM (Knowledge, Information, Data and Metadata Management) day conference KIDMM: MetaKnowledge Mash-up 2007. Since this gathering comprises a number of different species which do not normally swarm together, visitors to the area are advised to be on their guard against unpredictable behaviour.

So, make sure you get these in your diary:

04 September: Tools for knowledge organization today
12 September: Standardising the language of information and knowledge management – the Agony and the Ecstasy
12 September: Information, data and metadata: why they need to be managed
17 September: KIDMM: MetaKnowledge Mash-up 2007

ISKO News Section - include commercial events?

I know that I am not the only one among ISKO UK's membership, but I am a member of the North American taxonomy mailing list TaxoCop. This list is primarily oriented towards the role of taxonomies (and related approaches to structuring information) in the corporate information environment. There is an associated Wiki. The list is run by Seth Earley of Earley and Associates, whose business is taxonomy building and deployment, although TaxoCop is not run as a commercial operation.

From time to time, the TaxoCop community run conference calls on specific topics. Some of these are free, but more often they cost USD50 per person (plus the call costs, of course). TaxoCop have announced such a conference call for March 28th, entitled 'Taxonomy and KM'. I am wondering if we wish to carry notices of such items in the News section on the ISKO site?

Although the TaxoCop conference calls are charged, they are not really commercial events, and may therefore qualify to appear in our News section. However, there are a number of events around the topic of taxonomies which are run as commercial events, such as the Taxonomy conferences which Ark Group (used to?) run, and the very interesting sessions at the Online Conference last November involving Joseph Busch, Jayne Dutra, Tom Reamy and others. Should we carry news items for such commercial events also, where they are relevant?

I have no wish to interfere with editorial policy for our Web site, but it seems to me that we need to clarify our position in this respect. What do other members think?

Regards,

Bob

Information work in museums - articles

A collection of articles on information work and research in museums and implications of introducing new technologies into the museum environment (2005, 2006, 2007) by Paul F. Marty are now available in dLIST open archive.