I S K O

International Society for Knowledge Organization

LIS | knowledge representation | terminology | other domains

Library and information science

• IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
• Subject Analysis and Access Section
• FID: Fédération Internationale de la Documentation [closed in 2002]
• CR: Classification research section
• ASIST: American Society for Information science and Technology
• SIG/CR: Special Interest Group on Classification Research
• Special Libraries Association. Taxonomy Division
• CILIP: [UK] Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
  • Cataloguing and Indexing Group
• KOrg: Knowledge organization research groups (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)
• Brazilian KO Group
• DRTC: Documentation Tesearch and Training Centre (Indian Statistical Institute)
• Classification Research Group: London
• Dewey Services (OCLC)
• UDCC: Universal Decimal Classification Consortium
• BCA: Bliss Classification Association

Knowledge representation

• Semantic Web (W3C)
• SemanticWeb.org: the Semantic web community portal
• WebOnt: Web Ontology Working Group (W3C)
• SKOS: Knowledge organisation systems and the Semantic Web
• NKOS: Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services
• Vocabulary Mapping Framework (JISC)
• Knowledge extraction and semantic interoperability (DELOS)
• IAOA: International Association for Ontology and its Applications
• Upper Ontology Summit (NIST)
• OOR: Open Ontology Repository Initiative
• SEMIC.EU: Semantic interoperability centre Europe
• British Computer Society. Electronic Publishing Specialist Group
  • KIDMM: Knowledge, Information, Data and Metadata Management
• NCOR: [US] National Center for Ontological Research
• Ontology Research Group (SUNY. University at Buffalo)
• OASIS. TC Published subjects
• TaxoCoP: Taxonomy Community of Practice
• AIFIA: Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture
• FIND: Special interest and research group on Dynamic taxonomies and faceted search (University of Turin)
• TREC: Text Retrieval Conference
• Description logic
• ICSS: International Conference on Conceptual Structures
• Description logics (KR Inc.)
• Conceptual graphs
• A formal concept analysis homepage (Napier University)
• Concept maps (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition)
• TopicMaps.org

Terminology

• International Agreement of Indexing Societies
• ISO: International Organization for Standardization
  • TC 37: Terminology and other language and content resources
• ISA: International Sociological Association
  • COCTA: Committee on Conceptual and Terminological Analysis
• Terminology Forum
• TermNet: the international network for terminology
• Infoterm: International Information Centre for Terminology
• Realiter: Rete panlatina di terminologia
• GTW: Gesellschaft für Terminologie und Wissenstransfer = Association for terminology and knowledge transfer
• AFIA. TIA: Groupe de travail Terminologie et intelligence artificielle
• JISC. Terminology services and technology
• Minerva Europe. Multilingualism and thesaurus subgroup
• Ecoterm (European Environment Agency)

Other domains

• cMap: Classification and mapping for e-business and e-procurement
• IFCS: International Federation of Classification Societies [statistics]
• GfKl: German classification society = Gesellschaft für Klassifikation [statistics]
• The Systematics Association [biology]
• WHS: Willi Hennig Society [cladistic taxonomy]
• CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model [museology]
• Le monde du classement / Thomas Heitz

 

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