The Knowledge Management Education Hub

Communities

Worldwide Chapters

• …in Brazil (since 2007), China, Czech Republic*, Czechoslovakia / Slovakia*, France (since 1996), Deutsche Sektion (Germany + Austria + Switzerland) (since 1989), Iberico (Spain (since 1993) + Portugal) (since 2013), India (since 1990), Iran, Italy (since 2004), Kenya (since 2023), the Low Countries (covering Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands) (since 2019), Maghreb (Tunisia + Algeria + Morocco) (since 2010), Nordic Chapter (Denmark + Finland + Faeroe Islands + Iceland + Norway + Sweden)* (2007-2011), North America (Canada + USA) (since 2009), Poland (since 1995), Russia*, South America*, Singapore (since 2015), United Kingdom (since 2007), West Africa (since 2017)
• Local contacts in: Australia, Hungary, Georgia, Northern Europe, Russia, Slovakia

Scientific and Technical Advisory Council (STAC) working groups

• Subject Access Metadata / Guidelines for the effective use of subject metadata in discovery systems (since 2023)
• Annual Review of Knowledge Organization (ARKO; since 2023)
• Education in Knowledge Organization (KO) across disciplines (information science, education linguistics, computer science, medical informatics, …) (planned)
• Knowledge Organization (KO) for learning (planned)
• Knowledge Organization (KO) support for the movement for social justice (planned)
• Knowledge Organization (KO) support for sustainability (planned)
• Knowledge Organization (KO) support for crisis management (planned)
• Knowledge Organization (KO) support for dealing with misinformation on social media (planned)
• Knowledge Organization (KO) support for information and education on healthy behavior (planned)
• Knowledge Organization (KO) support for team science, especially interdisciplinary teams (planned)
• Semantic technologies in publishing, sharing and accessing Knowledge Organization Systems (planned)
• Terminology shifts in Knowledge Organization Systems and management of semantic shift over-time (planned)
• Knowledge Organization System representation standards and Knowledge Organization System ontologies (planned)
• Knowledge Organization (KO) and subject access in information retrieval (planned)
• Information behavior in relation to Knowledge Organization (KO) (planned)
• Knowledge Organization System visualization/GUI (planned)

Conferences

Int’l conference in even years; Chapter conferences in uneven years

• International Society for Knowledge Organization Conference (ISKO)*
• European ISKO Conference, Bratislava, Slovakia, September 14-16, 1994
  (orgainzed by the ISKO Slovak Chapter)
  Conference Theme: Environmental knowledge organization and information management
• ISKO Chapters’ Conferences
  (As for the active chapters and their conferences pls. refer to the chapter pages)
  • Russian Chapter
    • Third Russian ISKO Conference, 1998, Moscow, Russia
      Conference Theme: Library-Bibliographical Classification: New Horizons of the Knowledge Organization
    • Second Russian ISKO Conference, Moscow, Russia, May 16-18, 1995
      Conference Theme: Knowledge organization: Linguistic aspects
    • First Russian ISKO Conference, Moscow, Russia, May 10-14, 1993
      Conference Theme: Knowledge organization: Problems and tendencies
  • Czechoslovak Chapter (NISKO)
    • International conference on knowledge organization, terminology, and information access management (NISKO ’91), Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, May 13-16, 1991

Meetings

• Annual General Meeting incl. Biennial General Assembly (in conjunction with the ISKO Int’l Conference)
• Jul 2023: 20th ISKO Annual Meeting
• ISKO STAC working group meetings
  • ISKO ARKO: May 31, 2023, June 1, 2023