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ISKO logo This is the official website for ISKO – the premier international scholarly society devoted to the theory and practice of knowledge organization, bringing together professionals from different disciplines such as information science, philosophy, linguistics, and computer science, as well as special domains such as health informatics. ISKO's world-wide reach is supported through its regional Chapters.


ISKO hosts an international conference in even-numbered years. It last met in Wuhan, China, in March of 2024 and will meet again in 2026 in Los Angeles, USA. Proceedings of international conferences are listed here. In odd-numbered years most of ISKO's regional chapters host conferences; many of these are multilingual.


ISKO publishes the journal Knowledge Organization eight times a year. ISKO also is publishing an online encyclopedia of knowledge organization. We have provided a database of KO literature and link to a repository of KO documents, to BARTOC KO registry and to other organizations of interest to KO scholars.

Recently published       (older)

    Knowledge organization. 51. Issue 8 now available to ISKO members (volumes >3 years old OA)
    Known item search and Dewey Decimal Classification (ISKO Encyclopedia of KO)
    Tendências e desafios na KO: homenagem a MG Simões
    OntoPortal Workshop. 2024
    ICD-11 update. 2025
    Review of Topics of thought (NDPR)
    IFLA Metadata Newsletter. 10. 2
    From KO to KR and back (ALIS)
    O amplo, o restrito e o sem lugar: sentidos de KO em Foucault (Logeion)
    A relação entre KO e KM
    Subject matters: metadata standards and subject access
    Percursos da CI para o desenvolvimento sustentável na Amazônia. 2: KO

Coming KO events       (ISKO only — by year/country)

 2025-03-12    online Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp. 2025. 1
 2025-03-19    Athens Metadata standards matter
 2025-04-06/10    Lucca European Conference on Information Retrieval. 47
 2025-04-10/11    Cosenza   Italian ISKO Meeting. 12
 2025-04-29/05-03    Philadelphia Information Architecture Conference. 2025
 2025-06-02/05    Glasgow CoLIS: IC Conceptions of library and information science. 12
 2025-06-16/20    Vienna IC on Advanced Information Systems Engineering. 37
 2025-06-18    online Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp. 2025. 2
 2025-06-19/20    Thessaloniki Multilingual digital terminology today. 4
 2025-06-19/20    Portland   North American Symposium on KO. 10
 2025-06-25/27    Canela   Brazilian ISKO Conference. 8
 2025-07-00    online   UK ISKO Conference. 8
 2025-08-18/22    Astana IFLA World Library and Information Congress. 89
 2025-09-03/07    Seattle Open panel 51: Welcome to the beings of instauration (4S. 50)
 2025-09-04/05    online Formal ontology in information systems. 15.1
 2025-09-08/12    Catania Formal ontology in information systems. 15.2
 2025-09-23/26    Tampere Theory and practice of digital libraries. 29
 2025-09-29/10-01    Budapest IC on Lexicology and Lexicography. 1
 2025-10-01/03    Zaragoza IberSID: EC sistemas de información y documentación. 30
 2025-10-08    online Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp. 2025. 3
 2025-11-13/14    Porto   Spanish-Portuguese ISKO Conference. 7
 2025-11-14/18    Washington Annual Meeting of ASIS&T. 88
 2025-12-03/05    Manila IF on Data, Information and Knowledge. 2025
 2025-12-10    online Satellite Meeting of ASIS&T
 2026-06-00    Los Angeles   International ISKO Conference. 19

 


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