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Official
Call is OPEN.
The
10th biennial International Conference of the International Society
for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) is organised and hosted by the École
de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de linformation, Université
de Montréal.
Previous ISKO conferences took place in Darmstadt (1990), Madras (1992),
Copenhagen (1994), Washington (1996), Lille (1998), Toronto (2000),
Granada (2002), London (2004) and Vienna (2006).
Time
and Place of ISKO 2008: Tuesday 5 to Friday 8 of August 2008, at
the Université de Montréal (Québec, Canada).
Website: http://www.ebsi.umontreal.ca/isko2008/
Contact: isko2008@gmail.com
Conference Theme: Culture and Identity in Knowledge Organization.
The proposed research topics for this edition
include:
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Epistemological
Foundations in KO
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Models
and Methods
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Systems and Tools Ethics
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KO
for Libraries, Archives, and Museums
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Non-Textual
Materials
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KO
in Multilingual Environments
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Users
and Social Context
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Discourse
Communities and KO
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KO
for Information Management and Retrieval
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Evaluation
Types of Contributions Accepted to ISKO
2008
Research papers, posters, and workshop proposals are accepted for this
conference.
The authors should clearly outline the central objective or hypothesis
of the research, and present preliminary or intermediary results. If authors
intend to present their most recent findings (not yet available at the
submission date) at the conference, they should clearly indicate their
potential significance. Research-in-progress papers may also be submitted
but may not be retained if underdeveloped.
Research Papers
Professionals and researchers are invited to submit abstracts with a maximum
of 1500 words for full and research-in-progress papers by November 16th,
2007. Full papers that are not accepted might be retained as posters.
Posters
Professionals and researchers are invited to submit abstracts with a maximum
of 500 words for posters by November 16th, 2007.
Workshop Proposals
Submission for workshops are also invited.
Review of Contributions
The international programme committee will review the abstracts, and authors
will be notified of decisions by December 14th 2007. The deadlines for
submission of papers for the printed conference proceedings are below.
All abstracts should be submitted through email (isko2008@gmail.com)
by November 16th 2007. Late submission will not be eligible for consideration.
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Guidelines for Submission of Abstract
Abstracts should be submitted in English. Upon request, participants will be allowed to make their presentation in French during the conference.
First page should include the following information (copy&paste in
your document):
Tenth International ISKO Conference
Montréal, August 58, 2008
Author name(s): {fill in}
Affiliation(s): {fill in}
Full contact information: {fill in}
Title: {fill in}
Conference topic: {fill in}
Type of submission: {Paper / Poster / Workshop}
Number of words: {fill in}
The abstract should follow on the second page (no name should appear on
this page).
Format: Word or RTF.
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Conference Chair
Dr. Clément Arsenault, Associate Professor, École de bibliothéconomie
et des sciences de linformation. Université de Montréal,
Canada. E-mail: clement.arsenault@umontreal.ca
Programme Chair
Dr. Joseph T. Tennis, Assistant Professor, The Information School of the
University of Washington, Seattle, USA. E-mail:
jtennis@u.washington.edu
Poster Session Chair
Dr. Michèle Hudon, Associate Professor, École de bibliothéconomie
et des sciences de linformation. Université de Montréal,
Canada. E-mail: michele.hudon@umontreal.ca
Programme Committee
- Jack Andersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark
- Tom Baker, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
- Clare Beghtol, University of Toronto
- Michael Buckland, University of California-Berkeley
- D. Grant Campbell, University of Western Ontario
- Allyson Carlyle, University of Washington
- Jonathan Furner, University of California-Los Angeles
- Claudio Gnoli, University of Pavia, Italy
- Rebecca Green, Dewey Decimal Classification, OCLC
- Birger Hjørland, Royal School of Library and Information Science
- Elin K. Jacob, Indiana University
- Traugott Koch, Max Planck Digital Library, Berlin
- Barbara Kwasnik, Syracuse University
- Kathryn La Barre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- María López-Huertas, Universidad de Granada
- Jens-Erik Mai, University of Toronto
- José Ángel Martínez Usero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- Ia McIlwaine, University College London
- Eva Méndez Rodríguez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
- Shawne Miksa, University of North Texas
- William Moen, University of North Texas
- Widad Mustafa, Université de Lille 3 Marianne
- Marianne Lykke Nielsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark
- Peter Ohly, Sozialwissenschaftliche Fachinformation
- John Old, Napier University
- Hope Olson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Uta Priss, Napier University
- Jian Qin, Syracuse University
- Ali Shiri, University of Alberta
- Alexander Sigel, Semantic Knowledge Services
- Richard Smiraglia, Long Island University
- Stuart Sutton, University of Washington
- Douglas Tudhope, University of Glamorgan
- Martin van der Walt, Stellenbosch University
- Marcia Zeng, Kent State University
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Authors will be requested to submit their final accepted contributions
using the ISKO 2008 formatting guidelines.
Valid Document Formats: Microsoft Word (.doc)
and Rich Text Format (.rtf).
Submission for Accepted Papers and Posters
- Papers
max. 7 pages (~3500 word). Papers will be published in the printed proceedings.
- Posters
max. 2 pages (~1000 words). Posters will be published on the website.
- To prepare your
camera ready manuscript you must use and conform to the ISKO 2008 paper
template or to the ISKO 2008 poster template. The templates and guidelines
will be posted on the website at a later date.
- Failure to conform
to templates will lead to paper rejection from Proceedings and Conference.
- The working language of the conference is English but, upon request, participants will be allowed to make their presentation in French if desired.
Important Dates
- Abstract submission,
deadline: November 16th 2007.
- Notification of
acceptance of paper submissions: December 14th 2007.
- Notification of
acceptance of posters: January 18th 2008.
- Camera ready papers
due in MS Word/RTF format: 1st March 2008.
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