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The International Society for Knowledge Organization: UK Chapter (ISKO UK) offers the following Knowledge Management education and training opportunities:

Training

Knowledge Organization Education (KO-ED)

C. Knowledge Organization Systems Workshops (~~June – September 2021 August/September 2021~~ October 2021 – January 2022)
Workshops: Representing concepts in subject indexing: challenges of vocabulary control; Introduction to Universal Decimal Classification; Practical Thesaurus Construction

B. Theoretical Perspectives in Knowledge Organization (January – ~~March~~ February 2021)
Classes: Why search engines cannot replace knowledge organization?; Disciplines and phenomena in knowledge organization systems; Information foraging in knowledge organisations; Critical Description and Evaluation of Classification Schemes; Towards interoperability of KOS vocabularies; Automatic subject indexing and evaluation: an introduction; Automated indexing: implementation case studies; Some reflections on genre and knowledge organization;…

A. Introduction to Knowledge Organization (October – December 2020)
Classes: Definition and scope of KO in relation to Information Retrieval; Content analysis; Language of description; Subject headings: a word-based approach to organization and retrieval; General principles underlying knowledge organization systems (KOS); Faceted classification; From concepts to knowledge organization systems; What is a thesaurus? How and Why so?; How should today’s thesaurus earn its keep?

Workshops

Workshop series on Linked Open Data (LOD) ¹⁾
– May 2018: Linked Open Data Professional Development Workshop

Meetings

Knowledge Organization Research Observatory (KO-RO)
(last Wednesday every month; In collaboration with other Chapters of ISKO)

Apr 2023: TBC
Jan 2023: Cultural hospitality and ethical responsibilities in subject cataloguing (Revising vocabularies for cultural hospitality: an argument for hospitable processes; The Cataloguing Code of Ethics 2021: informing subject cataloguing and indexing for marginalised communities)
Nov 2022: Governance and alignment of taxonomies across the UK Government (The Taxonomy Oversight Group and its role in UK Government taxonomies; Careers information: a single source)
Aug 2022: Terminology standardization and standardization in general under a microcontent perspective (Re-sceduled from Jul 2022: Terminology Standards (2 presentations)
Jun 2022: Bibliometric experiment with the full text of research papers (Terminology standardization and standardization in general under a microcontent perspective; Are self-citations a normal feature of knowledge accumulation? (CANCELLED); Understanding scientific disagreement)
May 2022: Challenges of scholarly communication: bibliometric transparency and impact ~~Bibliometrics. Scientometrics~~ (Analysing self-citations in a large bibliometric database; Research impact beyond scholarly communication: the big challenge of Scientometrics 2.0)
Apr 2022: Doing bibliometrics responsibly (Openness of bibliometric metadata; The CWTS Leiden Ranking: a responsible approach to university ranking))
Jan 2022: Knowledge Organization and Indigenous Knowledge (Indigenous metadata: the view from a Pākehā (non-Māori person); Translating a western classification of knowledge into indigenous languages of South America)
Nov 2021: Research Repositories and Dataverse: Negotiating Metadata, Vocabularies and Domain Needs (Flexibility in Metadata Schemes and Standardisation: the Case of CMDI and the DANS EASY Research Data Repository; Adapting Flexible Metadata Support in Dataverse to the Needs of Domain-Specific Repositories: the Case of the Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing))
Oct 2021: Advancements in Enabling the Fair Principles and Semantic Interoperability (FAIR + FIT : Functional Metrics for Linked Open Data (LOD) KOS Products; Gerard Coen: Recommendations for FAIR Semantics from the FAIRsFAIR projects)
Sep 2021: Research Fields Classifications: Essential Tools in Reporting and Harmonising Scientific Information (The Flemish Research Discipline Standard: One Step Towards Harmonised Research Information in Flanders; Developing a Classification for Interdisciplinary Research Fields for the German Science System)
Jun 2021: Observing Knowledge Organization trajectories in healthcare (Home care nursing information behavior: expansion of a knowledge base in a time of pandemic; Making healthcare data FAIR data: the ontologies-data models-instances conundrum)
May 2021: Knowledge Organization Systems in the Spotlight: Collecting and Observing KOS (Observing trajectories in Science: Building the DANS KOS Observatory; Looking both ways, BARTOC then and now as it prepares for the future of Knowledge Organization) – w. ISKO Low Countries chapter
Apr 2021: Computational ethnography: tracking the flow of information
Mar 2021: AI in exploiting information assets to enhance verification, creativity and innovation (Exploiting information assets to enhance verification in Journalism: the DMINR approach; Exploiting information assets to enhance creativity and innovation: the CebAI approach)

Round Tables

Oct 2024: Questions for Knowledge Organization and the information profession (virtual)

Knowledge Organization Meetups ²⁾

Nov 2024: Introducing Jekyll RDF
Oct 2024: What’s New in Skosmos 3, a web-based tool providing services for accessing controlled vocabularies
Sep 2024: Documents, Databases, Knowledge Graphs, LLMs and Their Common Roots in Natural Language
May 2024: FINRA’s Machine-Readable Rulebook Initiative
Apr 2024: What Information Behaviour and Practices Mean for Use of Metadata and Knowledge Organization Systems
Nov 2023: Information Governance
Oct 2023: How Can a Knowledge Audit Contribute to Knowledge Management Planning
Sep 2023: coli-conc: Mapping Knowledge Organization Systems
May 2023: One Information Management System for Compliance, Governance and Findability
Apr 2023: The Opportunities and Challenges in Leveraging Sustainable Finance Taxonomies (was: Working with ESG Taxonomies)
Mar 2023: Vocabs Editor and Taxonomy Publishing Ecosystem
Nov 2022: Data Discovery at Wiley
Oct 2022: How Taxonomies Can Solve Complex Business Problems; British Ecological Society case study (CANCELLED)
Sep 2022: How to build a knowledge graph (title was: Knowledge Graph Tools)
Jul 2022: (Vocabs Editor and) Taxonomies for Confluence
Jun 2022: Why graphs? The limits of hierarchical thinking (planned was: AI and ML in Knowledge Organization)
May 2022: The Evolution of UX Strategy
Apr 2022: Keywording Creative Content (title was: Digital Asset Management)
Mar 2022: Getting a great start to creating structured vocabulary (title was: Basic steps in creation of structured vocabulary)
Feb 2022: E-commerce Search is Broken – How to Fix it With Open Source Software
Jan 2022: The evolving role of metadata (title was: Doing Magic With Metadata: The Six Purposes Of Metadata)
Nov 2021: Introduction to Wikibase (Hands-on Meetup) (title was: Introduction to Wikimedia)
Oct 2021: Coping with complexity: building a knowledge graph for UK Parliament (title was: Talking about Parliament Ontologies)
Sep 2021: Copyright in a knowledge organization workplace (was: Building Better Ecommerce Search with Open Source Software)
Aug 2021: On the pre-history of information technology
Jun 2021: Semantic Tagging and Text Classification for Archives and Content Systems; VocBench Workshops: Part 3: VocBench Vocabulary Versioning and Data Catalogue
May 2021: MS Teams – the case for Information Architecture and Governance; VocBench Workshops: Part 2: VocBench Data Import with Sheet2RDF (Hands-on Meetup)
Apr 2021: Beyond the Hero’s Journey; VocBench Workshops: Part 1: Introducing VocBench (Hands-on Meetup)
Mar 2021: Going virtual with Taxonomy Boot Camp London
Feb 2021: Searching fast and slow: exploring alternatives approaches to search for knowledge workers (was: Putting Search Theory to Work on Large Datasets)
Jan 2021: Managing business correspondence in the email era (and in the MS Teams era)
Dec 2020: VocBench – getting started (Interactive Workshop)
Nov 2020: Myths and half truths about semantic data modelling
Oct 2020: Times Tags: Metadata at The New York Times
Sep 2020: Practical Tools for Taxonomists (virtual)
Aug 2020: Knowledge Graphs, Part II: Practical Applications (virtual)
Jul 2020: Knowledge Graphs, Part I: Theories and Definitions (virtual)
Jun 2020: How the BBC is approaching metadata quality measurement (virtual)
May 2020: Knowledge Organization every day and everywhere, but is it beneficial or not? (virtual)
Apr 2020: Data visualisation – Hands-on practice (virtual)
Feb 2020: Taxonomies vs. Thesauri vs. Ontologies
Oct 2019: Taxonomy Chill-out (in conjunction with the Taxonomy Boot Camp London; with SLA and SLA Europe)
Jul 2019: ISKO UK Pre-conference get-together @ The Peasant
Jun 2019: What are the purposes of Knowledge Organization Research?
May 2019: CANCELLED
Apr 2019: To what extent do Library & Information Professionals actively manage change?
Mar 2019: Machine Learning and Visualization for the Information Professional
Feb 2019: Creativity in Knowledge Organization
Jan 2019: Ontology of Risk Workshop
Oct 2018: Taxonomy Chill-out (in conjunction with the Taxonomy Boot Camp London)
Jul 2018: IA, UX and Taxonomy in Digital Agencies
Jun 2018: Semantic enhancement, discovery and the ISKO digital strategy
May 2018: Change Management and Knowledge Organization
Apr 2018: Different strokes for different folks; wrangling unstructured information
Mar 2018: Can metadata be viewed in terms of its purposes?
Feb 2018: More content intelligence, more performance potential
Oct 2017: Taxonomy Chill-out (in conjunction with the Taxonomy Boot Camp London)
Oct 2016: Taxonomy Chill-out (in conjunction with the Taxonomy Boot Camp London)
Jul 2016: User Centric Design
Mar 2015: Findability and information management in the corporate workplace

Annual General Meeting (AGM), followed by (afternoon) events / seminars

Apr 2024: 17th Annual General Meeting (Online)
Apr 2023: ISKO UK AGM (Online)
Apr 2021: ISKO UK Meetup – Beyond the Hero’s Journey (Virtual AGM)
Mar 2020: Knowledge Organization in publishing : Using Knowledge Organisation to deliver content (Virtual AGM; preceding event CANCELLED)
Apr 2019: Metadata, taxonomies and retrieval
Mar 2018: Knowledge Organization and Ethics
Mar 2017: Making Knowledge Organization Work: integrating taxonomies into technology
Mar 2016: Organizing information: roles, skills and training for the future
Feb 2015: The Great Debate: This house believes that traditional thesaurus has no place in modern information retrieval
Apr 2014: Taming the news beast Finding context and value in text and data
Mar 2013: The power of social media to support knowledge sharing
Mar 2012: On Location: organizing and using geospatial information (joint with the BCS Location Information Specialist Group (LISG))
Nov 2011 (Seminar): Interoperability: joining up knowledge and information in the health sector
Apr 2011: Public Access to Information? Challenges for Information Gatekeepers (in cooperation with TiPS (Taxonomies in the Public Sector))
Mar 2010: Recording the Living World (in cooperation with the Department for Information Studies, University College London)
Apr 2009 (Lecture): Human-Machine Symbiosis for Data Interpretation (in cooperation with the Department for Information Studies, University College London)
Mar 2008: Confronting the Future
Mar 2007 (Inaugural meeting): If it rained knowledge…

Afternoon meetings (half-day)

Jun 2018: Organizing Medical and Health-related Information (joint meeting with NetIKX)
Oct 2015: Knowledge Organization in Learning and Teaching
Nov 2014: Knowledge Organization goes Mobile
Jun 2014: Making metadata work (Joint Meeting with tutorial and workshop between ISKO UK, IRSG (Information Retrieval Special Interest Group of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT) and DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative))
Oct 2013: Information – a risky business
Nov 2012: Images in Focus: Organizing Visual Content for Use
Sep 2012: The shape of knowledge: improving the visual representation of information and knowledge.
Sep 2009: Records and Information Management in Transition (in cooperation with the Department for Information Studies, University College London)
Oct 2008: MetaKnowledge Mash-up 2.0: making and organising knowledge in communities (joint with BCS-KIDMM (Knowledge, Information, Data and Metadata Management) communit)
Jun 2008: Agenda for Information Retrieval (in cooperation with the School of Library Archives and Information Studies, University College London)

KOnnecting KOmmunities meeting series (half-day)

Nov 2010: Legal Know-how: Organization and Semantic Analysis (in cooperation with the Department for Information Studies, University College London)
Jun 2010: Seeing is believing: new technologies for cultural heritage (in cooperation with the Department for Information Studies, University College London)
Nov 2008: Semantic Analysis Technology: in search of categories, concepts & context (in cooperation with the School of Library, Archives and Information Studies, University College London)
Jul 2008: Sharing Vocabularies on the Web via Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) (in cooperation with the School of Library, Archives and Information Studies, University College London)
Nov 2007: Ranganathan Revisited: Facets for the Future (sponsored by Factiva from Dow Jones; venue provided by the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London)
May 2007: Content, knowledge, information: Same Difference?

Evening events

Sep 2016: Text and data mining – Open Sesame!

Afternoon tutorials, seminars & workshops

Sep 2014 (tutorial): Metadata Management in Sharepoint
(repeat of the over-subscribed tutorial held on 23 June in conjunction with the Making metadata work event)
Jun 2014 (tutorial & workshop): Metadata Management in Sharepoint & Vocabularies and the potential for linkage
(in conjunction with the Making metadata work event)
Jul 2012 (full day Seminar & Workshop): I think, therefore I classify (co-hosted by the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG))
Sep 2007 (Seminar): Tools for Knowledge Organization Today ( in cooperation with the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London)
Feb 2007 (Seminar): Blunt Dialectics

Conferences

International Society for Knowledge Organization UK Chapter Conference (ISKO-UK)*
Search Solutions Forum
(Organizer: Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the BCS – Chartered Institiute for IT (BCS IRSG); since 2014 together with ISKO UK)
Linked Data: The Future of Knowledge Organization on the Web, 14 September 2010, University College London, London, United Kingdom
(organized in cooperation with the Department for Information Studies, University College London)

Web Channels

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Notes:

1) ISKO UK in collaboration with TiPS (Taxonomies in the Public Sector), in association with the Open Dada Institute (ODI)
2) Knowledge Organization Meetups are organized by the Knowledge Organization Meetup Group, closely allied to the UK Chapter of the International Society of Knowledge Organization (ISKO)