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 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
- Hanne Albrechtsen, the second ISKO president, died on October 5
- H. Peter Ohly, former secretary and president, has been appointed honorary member of ISKO.
Recently published (older)
Knowledge organization. 51. Issue 6 now available to ISKO members (volumes >3 years old OA)
Bibliography and Bliss Bibliographic Classification 2nd ed. (ISKO Encyclopedia of KO)
KOSs and provenance: experiences and challenges (ASIS&T)
Recent NKOS research (EL)
ISO 21127:2023: I&D reference ontology for cultural heritage information
Scale smart: AI-powered content organization strategies
Modeling a moving target (IP)
Learning takes more than one way of knowing (LQ)
Vocabulary mapping for archaeological infrastructure (JIS)
Book cluster: a new approach to explore the evolution of KO in ancient China (DSH)
Estudos críticos em organização do conhecimento
Cataloging and classification: an introduction, 5th ed.
Coming KO events (ISKO only — by year/country)
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