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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 provide 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.

News

Recently published       (older)

    Knowledge organization. 51. Issue 7 now available to ISKO members (volumes >3 years old OA)
    Subject analysis and Bibliography (ISKO Encyclopedia of KO)
    KM World. [Taxonomies, AI...]
    KOSs and provenance: experiences and challenges (ASIS&T)
    The behavioural and social sciences ontology (BSSO) foundry
    Linking not typing... KO at the network level
    Wartime patient classification in military hospitals [in Korean]
    Classification and KO (Handbook of information science)
    LCSH, DDC and the ambiguity of representation of Central, Eastern and SE Europe (CEEOL)
    Responsabiliser les utilisateurs finaux dans le développement d'ontologies terminologiques (TSR)
    Ética, dados e KO (I&I)
    Terminology: cognition, language and communication

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

 2025-01-22/24    Bangalore Semantic techniques for data and knowledge representation. 2
 2025-01-27/31    Pavia Global WordNet Conference. 2025
 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
 2025-09-04/05    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
 2025-10-08    online Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp. 2025. 3
 2025-11-13/14    Porto   Spanish-Portuguese ISKO Conference. 7
 2026-06-00    Los Angeles   International ISKO Conference. 19

 


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