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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 nominations
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ISKO UK
ISKO UK and the British Computer Society co-hosted an event all about location data.The first speaker was Mike Sanderson of 1Spatial, who described using geo-spatial data as helping to power a European knowledge economy. He spoke of the need for auditing and trust of data sources, particularly ways of mitigating poor quality or untrustworthy data. At 1spatial, they do this by comparing as many
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Thursday 29th March (14.00-18.00)Wilkes Room - British Computer Society London OfficeIn 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
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ISKO UK
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
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ISKO UK
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
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ISKO UK
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
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ISKO UK
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
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ISKO UK
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
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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
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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
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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,
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ISKO UK
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.
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ISKO UK
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.
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ISKO UK
The second biennial ISKO UK Conference now has a full review on its own blog page.
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ISKO UK
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
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ISKO UK
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
[www.ukeig.org.uk]
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ISKO UK
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
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ISKO UK
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
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ISKO UK
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
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ISKO UK
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
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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),
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ISKO UK
[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:
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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
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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
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ISKO UK
International UDC Seminar 2011CLASSIFICATION & ONTOLOGY Formal Approaches and Access to KnowledgeVENUE: The Hague, National Library of the NetherlandsDATE: 19-20 September 2011WEBSITE:
[seminar.udcc.org] seminar2011@udcc.orgThe difference between bibliographic knowledge classifications and ontologies resides in their particular purpose/function, and levels of
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Andy Powell, one of our speakers at the forthcoming one-day conference Linked Data: The Future of Knowledge Organization on the Web is cycling the length of Britain to raise money for two charities, St Peter's Hospice in Bristol and Book Aid International.Andy was prompted to undertake the ride after his close colleague at UKOLN in Bath, Rachel Heery, died in July. Rachel, Deputy Director at
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ISKO UK is sorry to announce the death of Jack Mills, on 9 July 2010, at his home in London, at the age of 91.Jack had a long and distinguished career as a professional librarian, academic, teacher and researcher, and, for the last 40 years, as Editor of the Bliss Bibliographic Classification, Second Edition (BC2).In recent years his work had been marked by the award of an Honorary Fellowship of
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ISKO UK
Hot on the heels of the UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award...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.CriteriaThe Award is given in
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ISKO UK
UKeiG is now seeking nominations for 2010 for this prestigious award.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
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ISKO UK
2010-06-17, A new DCMI Task Group has been established on the issue of Metadata Provenance. The group aims to define an application profile that allows for making assertions about description statements or description sets, creating a shared model of the data elements required to describe an aggregation of metadata statements in order to collectively import, access, use and publish facts about
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Courtesy of our colleagues in the SKOS community, we learned in April that the National Széchényi Library (NSZL) in Budapest has published its entire OPAC and Digital Library as Linked Data. The vocabularies employed are:RDFDC for bibliographic dataFOAF for name authority entriesSKOS for subject terms and geographical namesAdam Horvath, Director of Informatics at NSZL says:Our RDFDC, FOAF and
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Call for Presentations and posters9th European NKOS Workshopat ECDL 2010Glasgow, 9th-10th September 2010Proposals are invited for presentations and posters on work related to the themes of the workshop (see below).Submission deadline: 14th June 2010Notification of acceptance: 12th July 2010Please email proposals (maximum 1000 words for presentations and 500 words for posters, including aims,
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You are cordially invited ot the next ISKO UK event "Seeing is believing: new technologies for cultural heritage"DATE: 9th June 2010, 13:30-19:00VENUE: University College LondonFEE: £20 (ISKO members & students free)The organization of, and access to, cultural and humanistic resources presents particular problems because of the diversity of material and the uniqueness of many individual items.
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Slides and mp3 recordings of two talks from the ISKO March event Recording the Living World - available from the event website.Diane Tough "Collection description at the Natural History Museum "Graham Higley "Encyclopedia of Life"
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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 2010FEE: 70 EURTO REGISTER: conference websiteThe Belle Epoque is a turbulent period in Western European history between about 1880 and 1914 characterized by an emerging modernization in social and political
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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
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30 March 2010 - 15.30-19.00VENUE: University College London, Roberts Building, Torrington Place, WC1E 7JEFEE: £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
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We are very sorry to announce the death of Professor Brian Vickery on October 17th 2009, shortly after his 91st birthday.Brian was an enormously influential figure in the field of classification and information retrieval, a powerful force in the development of faceted classification and retrieval theory, and a prolific writer and researcher throughout his life. A founder member of the
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Knowledge Organization, vol. 36, no. 4 (2009) has been mailed to subscribers; electronic copy is available at Ergon's ISKO-members' page.CONTENTSInternational Society for Knowledge Organization. 12th General Assembly 2010. AgendaArticles:Joseph Tennis. Three Creative Tensions in Document Interpretation Theory Set as Evidence of the Need for a Descriptive InformaticsElaine Ménard. Image Retrieval
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ISKO UK
Draft of ISO 25964-1 "Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies. Thesauri for information retrieval”Work has been under way since May 2008 to revise and extend the international standards for thesauri, ISO 2788 and ISO 5964. The updated content of these two standards, plus other material needed to support interoperability, will be combined in a new standard ISO 25964, as follows:ISO
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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"
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ISKO UK
Courtesy of Traugott Koch:All presentations and posters from the 8th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) workshop, that took place at the ECDL conference in Corfu (Greece) on October 1st 2009, are available at the workshop website
[www.comp.glam.ac.uk] the topics covered are: a vocabulary bank; a SKOS
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Classification at a Crossroads: Multiple Directions to UsabilityInternatinal UDC SeminarThe 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,
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CALL FOR PAPERS:Colloguium: Transcending Boundaries in Europe in the Period of the Belle Epoque: Organizing Knowledge, Mobilizing Networks, and Effecting Social Change - Mons (Belgium), 20-21 May 2010VENUE: Mundaneum [see: wikipedia entry on Mundaneum]The colloquium will explore aspects of network development,information creation, organization and exchange, and related "boundary spanning"
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You are cordially invited to the next ISKO UK afternoon seminarRECORDS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT IN TRANSITION16 September 200914:00-18:00VENUE: University College LondonFEE: £20.00 (ISKO members and students FREE)Good governance, accountability, transparency, freedom of information: noble aims for our society but achieving them depends on keeping, and being able to find, records of our dealings
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ISKO UK
The 8th Networked Knowledge Organization Systems and Services (NKOS) Workshop will take place on Thursday, 1st October 2009, as part of ECDL 2009 in Corfu (Greece).Contributions are invited for the following topics: Linked data Models and methodologies for creation and development of KOS Social tagging KOS Interoperability Terminology services User-centred design issues
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In his report on Dave Snowden's talk to ISKO UK on 23 April 2009, Jan Wyllie, an ISKO UK member and co-founder of the Open Intelligence blog raises some challenging points regarding the role of librarians and information managers. "The ISKO audience of librarians and information professionals seemed somewhat bemused as to what disintermediation and self-signifying data had to do with them,
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EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT CLOSES 31 MARCH 2009Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources, ISKO UK 2009 ConferenceLondon, 22-23 June 2009VENUE: University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BTEARLY BIRD FEE - if registration is completed and payment received by ISKO UK on or before 31st March.135 GBP115 GBP (ISKO members, speakers and students)To avoid delays, excessive and
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From the W3C news;W3C Invites Implementations of SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) Reference; Primer Also Published2009-03-17: The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference. This document defines the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), a common data model for sharing and
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The next ISKO UK open meeting will be held on 23 April 2009, at University College London.David Snowden will talk about "Human-Machine Symbiosis for Data Interpretation" followed by a panel discussion. The seminar will be preceded by the ISKO UK Annual General Meeting to which all potential members are also invited.Tea will be provided, and there will be drinks and an opportunity for
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"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
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