International Society for Knowledge Organization

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International Society for Knowledge Organization
Formation1989; 32 years ago (1989)
FounderIngetraut Dahlberg
Legal statusActive
Region
World
President
Rick Szostak
President-Elect
Thiago Henrique Bragato Barros
Treasurer
Athena Salaba
Secretary
David Haynes
Lu An (CHINA)

Claudio Gnoli (University of Pavia, Italy) [ex-officio as Webmaster]
Birger Hjørland (, Copenhagen, Denmark) [as SAC Chair]
Athena Salaba (Kent State University, Kent, USA) [as Treasurer]
Richard P. Smiraglia (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA)
Rick Szostak (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) [as President]
Thiago Barros (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) [as President-Elect]

Marcia Lei Zeng (Kent State University, Kent, USA)
AffiliationsUNESCO, European Commission, ISO, IFLA, ASIS&T SIG/CR, NKOS, Infoterm
Websitehttp://www.isko.org/index.php

The International Society for Knowledge Organization, or ISKO, is a professional association for scholars of knowledge organization, knowledge structures, classification studies, and information organization and structure. Founded in 1989, ISKO's mission is "to advance conceptual work in knowledge organization in all kinds of forms, and for all kinds of purposes, such as databases, libraries, dictionaries and the Internet."[1] An interdisciplinary association, ISKO's worldwide membership draws from fields such as information science, philosophy, linguistics, library science, archive studies, science studies, and computer science. ISKO "promotes research, development and applications of knowledge organization systems that advance the philosophical, psychological and semantic approaches for ordering knowledge; provides the means of communication and networking on knowledge organization for its members; and functions as a connecting link between all institutions and national societies, working with problems related to the conceptual organization and processing of knowledge."[1]

Publications[]

The Society publishes the academic journal Knowledge Organization as the official bi-monthly journal of ISKO. Founded in 1973 by Dr. Ingetraut Dahlberg, the first President of ISKO, it began publication the following year under the banner International Classification. In 1993 the title was changed to its present form. The journal publishes original research articles relating to general ordering theory, philosophical foundations of knowledge and its artifacts, theoretical bases of classification, data analysis and reduction. It also describes practical operations associated with indexing and classification. In addition to being a technical resource, the journal traces the history of knowledge organization and discusses questions of education and training in classification.

Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization[]

Since 2016, ISKO has published the Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization (IEKO), edited by Birger Hjorland and Claudio Gnoli. This work covers the history and development of different approaches to knowledge, core concepts in the space, comparisons of different systems and processes, and examples from current practice in regional and global projects.[2]

The organization also holds biennial international conferences.

Chapters[]

ISKO officially recognizes regional chapters in Brazil, Canada and the United States, China, France, Germany (including Austria and Switzerland), India, Italy, Maghreb (including Tunisia + Algeria + Morocco), Poland, Singapore, Spain (including Portugal), the United Kingdom, and West Africa. ISKO cooperates with international and national organizations such as UNESCO, the European Commission, the International Organization for Standardization, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, the Association for Information Science and Technology, the Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services, and the International Information Centre for Terminology.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "About ISKO". www.isko.org. Retrieved 2016-10-17.
  2. ^ Hjorland, Birger. "ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization". www.isko.org. Retrieved 2021-07-12.

Other reading[]

Dahlberg, Ingetraut (2010) International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition, 1: 1, 2941 — 2949.

External links[]

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