I S K O

Scientific and Technical Advisory Council (STAC)
Observing knowledge organization scholarship and applications

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About STAC

In line with ISKO's mission, the Council is concerned with the scholarship, theory, principles, and applications of the pervasive subject of Knowledge Organization

as dealt with in Information Studies, Philosophy, History, the Ontology community, Psychology and Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Computer Science (Data Modeling, AI, ML), Taxonomies (Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, Literary Genres, Museum Objects, etc.) and all kinds of data schemas and formats used in databases and the Web
applied in, among others,
- libraries, bibliographic information systems, publishing, the Web, archives, museums,
- preserving and providing access to cultural heritage across domains and institutional contexts;
- (digital) humanities, natural language understanding, education, instructional design;
- process modelling (including business processes, production processes, etc.);
- information systems, icluding health, finance, legal, government, etc.

Learn more about Council's role in Terms of reference [DOCX]

Members

Governance

Chair: Dagobert Soergel (University at Buffalo, USA)

Contact: stac@isko·org

Council Members

Wiesław Babik (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland)
Claudio Gnoli (University of Pavia, Italy)
Koraljka Golub (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
Ágnes Hajdu-Barát (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
Birger Hjørland (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) [ex officio as encyclopedia editor-in-chief]
Junzhi Jia (Renmin University of China)
Deborah Lee (University College London, UK)
Gercina Lima (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Daniel Martínez Ávila (University of León, Spain)
Robert Montoya (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Widad Mustafa El-Hadi (Université Charles de Gaulle, France)
Catalina Naumis Peña (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
Jian Qin (Syracuse University, USA)
Pauline Rafferty (Aberysthwith University, UK)
Aida Slavić (UDC Consortium, Netherlands)
Sayed Mahdi Taheri (Allameh Tabataba'i University, Iran)
Natália Bolfarini Tognoli (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil) [ex officio as journal editor-in-chief]
Douglas Tudhope (University of South Wales, UK)
Xiaoguang Wang (Wuhan University, China)
Jonathan Ward (Getty Research Institute, USA)
Marcia Lei Zeng (Kent State University, USA)
Maja Žumer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Reports

Annual report 2020-2021
Annual report 2021-2022 [PPTX]
Annual report 2022-2023 [PPTX]
Annual report 2023-2024 [PPTX]

Working Groups

STAC is in the process of forming working groups which are going to be open to experts inside and outside ISKO. In 2022 the STAC will announce Working Group programme and invite participation. The following is a list of possible topics for Working Groups that resulted from brainstorming among STAC members. Topics can be added. Interest expressed by STAC members and others will determine which working groups will be formed.

Guidelines for the effective use of subject metadata in discovery systems (already active)
Annual Review of Knowledge Organization
Education in KO across disciplines (information science, education linguistics, computer science, medical informatics, ...) (has already drawn much interest)
KO for learning
KO support for the movement for social justice
KO support for sustainability
KO support for crisis management
KO support for dealing with misinformation on social media
KO support for information and education on healthy behavior
KO support for team science, especially interdisciplinary teams
Semantic technologies in publishing, sharing and accessing KOSs
Terminology shifts in KOSs and management of semantic shift over-time
KOS representation standards and KOS ontologies
KO and subject access in information retrieval
Information behavior in relation to KO
KOS visualization/GUI