Events
ISKO UK events
Past events
DIS has organized a successful series of events for ISKO UK, including
two major half-day workshops, 'Sharing vocabularies on the Web', and
'Ranganathan revisited: facets for the future'
RECORDS AND INFORMATION MANAAGEMENT IN TRANSITION: all the better for teamwork. September 2009
This ISKO-UK meeting proved another success in bringing together
professionals from diverse backgrounds. Teamwork is needed to design and
implement a records management system that works well from the
differing points of view of users inputting the records, staff trying to
find past records, and managers seeking efficiency and effectiveness in
their workforce.
The meeting brought together an audience of 60 including records managers, information managers, IT managers, academics and consultants from many sectors.
Marc Fresko (Inforesight), Cerys Hearsey (Metataxis), Liz Scott-Wilson (Tubelines)
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HUMAN-MACHINE SYMBIOSIS FOR DATA INTERPRETATION April 2009
Much work on search, retrieval and interpretation is caught between the
Scylla of restrictive taxonomies and the Charybdis of the semantic web.
Too much of IT practice is based on the assumption that the human brain
is a "limited capacity information processing device" (A-Level
psychology text book) and that language has a common structure and
meaning.
In this presentation David Snowden reported on pioneering work on the
use of semi-constrained signifier sets, allowing humans to tell and
index their own material within a loose structure. This work enables
the pattern basis of human intelligence to be augmented by information
processing power, without losing the insights that are essentially human
in nature. The development is based on more than a decade of work in
weak signal detection and on overcoming cognitive bias in intelligence
and decision support systems.
A devotee of Wagner and of Welsh rugby, David Snowden is also the founder and Chief Scientific Officer of the consultancy organisation Cognitive Edge. He describes his work as in the area of naturalising sense-making, seeking to base social science research and practice on natural science. A pioneer in the application of complex adaptive systems theory to a range of social issues, and in the development of narrative as a research method, Snowden's originality guarantees a compelling presentation. Snowden's work extends across government and industry in a variety of fields including knowledge management, strategic planning, conflict resolution, weak signal detection, decision support and organisational development. He holds visiting professorships in the universities of seven countries from Australia through China and Italy to the UK .
SHARING VOCABULARIES ON THE WEB via SKOS (Simple knowledge organization system) July 2008
This event, the third in ISKO UK's KOnnecting KOmmunities series, was an opportunity to learn more about SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System), the up-and-coming standard for publishing controlled vocabularies on the Web.
The topic proved to be enormously popular. There were 94 people present
coming from government, publishing and broadcasting agencies, public
service organisations, commercial companies and academia. Reassuringly
many practitioners were present including subject matter experts,
librarians, information architects, software developers etc.
We were fortunate in having speakers from the forefront of SKOS
development and implementation who were able to draw a general picture
of the role of knowledge organization systems in the Semantic Web
development but also guide us through the intricate details of what it
means to express controlled vocabularies in such a way so that they
their semantics can be exploited in information integration and
discovery.
A lively discussion enabled all to develop their own thinking on the
opportunities to share and even generate new information through the
combination of linked information resources and the vocabularies
supporting them.
The afternoon represented a refreshing step forward in thinking through
the more powerful application of controlled vocabularies and offered a
valuable learning experience.
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Alistair Miles |
Antoine Isaac | Stella Dextre Clarke | Leonard Will | Nicholas Cochard | Douglas Tudhope |
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AGENDA FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL. June 2008
Three eminent speakers: Brian Vickery, Stephen Robertson and Ian
Rowlands, addressed issues that have been on the information retrieval
agenda from the 1950s to the era of Google.
Brian Vickery took a look back at the development of information
retrieval, and some of the problems it has faced. A chemist at the start
of his career, Brian Vickery has had enormous influence on knowledge
organization since 1952, as one of the founder members of the
Classification Research Group. For the last ten years Stephen Robertson
has been a researcher at the Microsoft Research Laboratory. In his
talk, he gave a non-technical overview of some current concerns of core
IR research, in particular on the use of different kinds of evidence in
searching and ranking. Ian Rowlands, reader at DIS, UCL, and a member
of its CIBER research group is the author of the recently published
report on searching behaviour of the ‘Google generation', commissioned
by JISC and the British Library. Ian focused on the issues from the
perspective of the user and presented some findings related to the
users' information behaviour that disperse the myth of so called 'Google
generation'.
The talks were followed by a lively and stimulating discussion chaired by Stella Dextre-Clarke.
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Stephen Robertson | Ian Rowlands |
CONFRONTING THE FUTURE: organizing and managing knowledge in the Web 2.0 age
DIS will co-host with ISKO UK an open meeting on March 5 2008
Two distinguished speakers gave their views on where the new shift in
disintermediation brought by Web 2.0 and related changes in information
technologies are leading our profession.
Paul Dodgson is Vice-Chair of the Records Management Society of Great
Britain and will describe where he sees the increasingly important
Records Management function going in the coming years.
Peter Griffiths is CILIP Vice-President 2008 and has enjoyed a long
career in government libraries. Peter will tell us how this
heterogeneous professional body sees the future for librarians and
information scientists in both the public and private sectors.
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RANGANATHAN REVISITED: FACETS FOR THE FUTURE
5th November 2007
Venue University College London
Sir David Davies Lecture Theatre (G08), Ground Floor, Engineering Faculty
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Mark Stapleton |
Matt Adams |
Jan Wylie |
Simon Eaton |
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ISKO UK held its second KOKO (KOnnecting KOmmunities) event from 14:00 -
20:00 on 5th November entitled Ranganathan Revisited: Facets for the
future. The intention was to explore the current status of faceted
classification from both theoretical and practical viewpoints. The event
was sponsored by Factiva from Dow Jones and the venue was provided by
the Department of Information Studies (DIS) at University College London
UCL). Eighty-one people attended.
S. R. Ranganathan was the Indian librarian and academic who, in the
1930s, developed the theory of faceted classification. Faceted
classification is an approach to presenting and organizing knowledge
based on the identification of fundamental subject categories (‘facets')
that allows the combination of relevant values from one or more facets
to define a compound subject with great precision.
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TOOLS FOR KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION TODAY
4th September 2007
14:30 - 17:30
Venue
University College London
Gower St, WC1E 6BT
Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2
ISKO UK (in cooperation with the UCL Department of Information Studies,)
held a half-day event titled "Tools for Knowledge Organization Today".
The Seminar explored current developments in knowledge organization
systems and the work of groups in the knowledge organization field, such
as NKOS and BCS-KIDMM. The programme included presentations on the new
standard for structured vocabularies (BS 8723) and an automatic metadata
generation project. Speakers included Stella Dextre Clarke, convenor
of the working party on the new standard, and Douglas Tudhope, Chair of
NKOS and Professor of Computer Science at Glamorgan University.
The seminar was preceded by a brief business meeting for ISKO UK members. There were 46 participants.
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International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization
In 2004 DIS hosted the 8th International ISKO Conference, with Vanda
Broughton as Conference Chair. The keynote address was given by
Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, and
sixty papers were presented by delegates from Europe, America, Africa
and Asia.
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