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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. 52. Issue 2 now available with open access
    Classification Research Group and Content analysis (ISKO Encyclopedia of KO)
    CoLIS: IC Conceptions of Library and Information Science. 12
    KO in a dangerous time (CAIS/ACSI)
    Gene Ontology: June 1 release
    Can directories rise again? (HW)
    Qualities of a bad index (SI)
    Structural changes in Gene Ontology (MBE)
    KO in multi- and interdisciplinary dialogues: special issue (Informatio)
    Revisiting the APUPA pattern: the Publication Fall Index in DNA fingerprints research (ALIS)
    A study of various dimensions of ontology development methodologies (JIK)
    Dai dati alla conoscenza: introduzione all'epistemologia dell'informazione

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

 2025-06-25/27    Canela   Brazilian ISKO Conference. 8
 2025-06-30/07-02    London Metascience: research and priorities to accelerate science. 2025
 2025-08-14/15    Astana IFLA WLIC. Satellite M: IA, bibliographic control and legal matters
 2025-08-18/22    Astana IFLA World Library and Information Congress. 89
 2025-09-01/12-31    online Automatic and human KO in cultural heritage org's: PhD course
 2025-09-03/05    Vienna Semantics. 21
 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
 2025-09-08/12    Cluj-Napoca Concepts: IJC on Conceptual knowledge structures. 2
 2025-09-19/21    Birmingham Society of Indexers Conference. 2025
 2025-09-23    Tampere NKOS Workshop. 2025
 2025-09-23/26    Tampere Theory and practice of digital libraries. 29
 2025-09-27    Turin   La bottega del sapere: una giornata per Eugenio Gatto
 2025-09-29/10-01    Budapest IC on Lexicology and Lexicography. 1
 2025-09-29/10-02    São Paulo OntoBras: Seminar on ontology research in Brazil. 18
 2025-10-01/03    Zaragoza IberSID: EC sistemas de información y documentación. 30
 2025-10-08    online Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp. 2025. 3
 2025-10-13/14    Metz   French ISKO Conference. 14
 2025-10-15/17    Heraklion IJC on Knowledge Graphs. 14
 2025-10-20    Barcelona The document society
 2025-10-20/23    Poitiers ER: IC on Conceptual modeling. 44
 2025-10-22/25    Barcelona Dublin Core and metadata applications. 23
 2025-11-02/06    Nara International Semantic Web Conference. 24
 2025-11-03/05    Sydney Research applications in information and library studies. 2025
 2025-11-06/07    Tunis OCTA: Organization of knowledge and advanced technologies. 2025
 2025-11-13/14    Porto   Spanish-Portuguese ISKO Conference. 7
 2025-11-14/18    Washington Annual Meeting of ASIS&T. 88
 2025-11-25/26    London Search solutions. 2025
 2025-12-03/05    Manila IF on Data, Information and Knowledge. 2025
 2025-12-10    online Satellite Meeting of ASIS&T
 2026-03-11/13    Bristol CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group Conference. 2026
 2026-08-00    Los Angeles   International ISKO Conference. 19

 


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