I S K O
International Society for Knowledge Organization
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.
News
- The international ISKO Conference 2026 will be held in São Paulo, Brazil. The call for papers will be issued soon.
Recently published (older)
Knowledge organization. 52. Issue 3 now available with open access
Classification Research Group and Content analysis (ISKO Encyclopedia of KO)
Brazilian ISKO Conference. 8
Workshop de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação. 7. Sessão KO
Gene Ontology: June 1 release
IFLA Statement on universal bibliographic control
IFLA Metadata Newsletter. 11.2
Semantic primitives and compositionality (ARIST, JASIST)
Análise facetada: um estudo metodológico (EB)
Paul Otlet, la CDU e la classificazione dei documenti amministrativi
Ontological modeling of music and musicological claims (IJDL)
Dai dati alla conoscenza: introduzione all'epistemologia dell'informazione
Coming KO events (ISKO only — by year/country)
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