• Epistemological Foundations in KO
• Models and Methods
• Systems and Tools – Ethics
• KO for Libraries, Archives, and Museums
• Non-Textual Materials
• KO in Multilingual Environments
• Users and Social Context
• Discourse Communities and KO
• KO for Information Management and Retrieval
• 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 5–8, 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 l’information. 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 l’information. 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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