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.
Recently published (older)
Knowledge organization. 51. Issue 8 now available with open access
Content analysis and VINITI (ISKO Encyclopedia of KO)
Extraction et gestion des connaissances. 2025
Tendências e desafios na KO: homenagem a MG Simões
Allergy Ontology version 3
Indexing and AI
[Gulf of Mexico and Mt. Denali in LCSH] (Critcatenate)
A survey on KOSs of research fields (QSS)
Knowledge translation as an interdisciplinary method for IS (JDoc)
Conceptual models of the sociotechnical: special issue (JASIST)
A Socratic RAG approach to connect NL queries with KOSs (arXiv)
Semantic modeling for data
Coming KO events (ISKO only — by year/country)
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