Reminder: Call for Papers, ISKO-UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE "KO Pushing the Boundaries" – London 8/9 July 2013

*CALL FOR PAPERS: Knowledge Organization - Pushing the Boundaries*

*ISKO**-UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE – 8/9 July 2013, London.
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**Dear SKOS Colleagues,
Most SKOS developments are highly relevant to the third biennial 
conference of the UK Chapter of ISKO (International Society for 
Knowledge Organization). Please take this opportunity to share news of 
your work with the rest  of us, and/or alert any colleagues who may be 
interested. See more details at http://www.iskouk.org/conf2013/index.htm

*Conference theme and topics*

**On the general theme of “pushing the boundaries”, some boundaries that 
deserve challenge include:

-between research and practice: how to achieve better synergy?

-between one type of KOS and another, e.g. between thesauri and 
terminologies

-between knowledge management professionals and IT professionals

-between one scientific discipline and another (with new knowledge 
taking shape at the boundary)

-between the resources on the Web and those behind our firewalls.

In confronting any of the above, or indeed a boundary of your own 
choice, a contribution on any KO topic is welcome, especially if it 
helps us move forward. Topics currently of interest include:

-Linked open data initiatives

-Metadata management

-Ontologies applied to knowledge engineering

-Searching in a networked environment

-Evolution of social media

-Transmedia narrative

-Semantic modelling

-Vocabulary crosswalks and registries

-Organizing and integrating images.

*Submissions*
Proposals should be submitted in English via the _Abstract submission_ 
<http://www.iskouk.org/conf2013/abstractsubmissions.htm> page, by 30 
November 2012 at latest. Please provide an abstract of 300-500 words, 
and indicate whether you plan a short or long presentation, or a poster. 
You will be informed by 1 February 2013 whether your proposal has been 
accepted. For publication on the website, your full paper should be 
submitted by 2 July 2013. Editorial guidelines will be available from 
February 2013, on the conference website. Presentation slides too should 
be submitted by 2 July 2013. They will be pre-loaded on the conference 
PC, and released on the conference website immediately after the event.

*More background*
ISKO is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with the 
objective of promoting research and communication in the domain of 
knowledge organization, within the broad field of information science 
and related disciplines. The emphasis in our UK Chapter is to build 
bridges between the research and practitioner communities, in pursuit of 
which we attract lively and steadily growing audiences to our afternoon 
meetings. You can see past and future events at 
http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm, most with MP3 recordings. The 
proceedings of our first and second biennial conferences are available 
in electronic media at http://www.iskouk.org/conf2009/proceedings.htmand 
http://www.iskouk.org/conf2011/programme.htm respectively.

We look forward to hearing from you,
Stella Dextre Clarke

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Stella Dextre Clarke
Information Consultant and Chair, ISKO UK
Luke House, West Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8RR, UK
Tel: 01235-833-298
Fax: 01235-863-298
stella@lukehouse.org
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