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. 52. Issue 1 now available with open access
Content analysis and VINITI (ISKO Encyclopedia of KO)
KO in a dangerous time (CAIS/ACSI)
Information Architecture Conference. 2025. Friction and complexity (IP)
Allergy Ontology version 3
Qualities of a bad index (SI)
Introduction to Japanese edition of Hjørland's What is KO theory
Revisiting the APUPA pattern: the Publication Fall Index in DNA fingerprints research (ALIS)
A study of various dimensions of ontology development methodologies (JIK)
Is an all-purpose classification possible? (Synthese)
M-Classi: a new digital tool for the classification of the sciences in Islam (Micrologus)
Semantic modeling for data
Coming KO events (ISKO only — by year/country)
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