Dear Moderator : Kindly arrange to announce the attached invitation to the benefit of lis-forum members. Yours truly, K.N. Prasad Executive Officer Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science ****** *Categories, Relations and Contexts in Knowledge Organization* *University of Mysore, 6-9 August 2012* * * * * 12th International ISKO Conference The International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) will hold its 12 th Biennial International Conference (ISKO 2012) in the University of Mysore, Mysore, India from 6th - 9th August 2012. The University of Mysore will play host to this international event. The conference will be jointly organized by the ISKO (India Chapter), the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science and the University of Mysore. The conference has been co-sponsored by DRDO, Government of India, The PES Institute of Technology (Bangalore), Ranganathan Centre for Information Studies (Chennai), the Society for Information Science (Bangalore Chapter) and the University of Madras Department of Library & Information science. ISKO is an international professional body that holds biennial international conferences in different parts of the world. The last two conferences were hosted respectively by the University of Montreal (Canada) in 2008 and by the Sapienza University, Rome, Italy in 2010. This is only the 2nd time that the ISKO has decided to have its Biennial International Conference in India. The proposed conference will bring together disparate groups from Information sciences, Computer Sciences, Library Sciences, Philosophy and Linguistics on a single platform to discuss issues of contemporary interest in Knowledge Representation and Organization. The theme: *Categories, Relations and Contexts in Knowledge Organization* *Keynote speaker*: *Prof. Richard P. Smiraglia, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA: * *Universes, Dimensions, Domains, Intensions and Extensions: Knowledge Organization for the 21st Century* *Other Eminent Speakers include (not exhaustive)*: *Prof. Michael Shepherd, Dalhousie University, Canada Prof. Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan Prof. Carolyn Watters, Dalhousie University, Canada* *Prof. Birger Hjorland, Royal School of Information & Library Science, Copenhagen* *Dr. Hemelatha Iyer, State University of New York at Albany* *Prof. Marcia Zeng, Kent State University, USA* *Prof. A. Neelameghan (Former Professor & Head, DRTC)* *Dr. Joseph Tennis, University of Washington, Seattle, USA* *Prof. Mustafa El Hadi, University of Lille, France* *Mr. Peter Ohly, President, ISKO* *Dr. Chrstopher Khoo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore* *Prof. Jose Augusto Guimaraes, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil* *Dr. Kavi Mahesh, PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore* * * The facets for paper presentations include: · *Classification Schemes, Taxonomies, and Categorization Schemes* · *Facet Analysis as the theoretical basis of knowledge representation & organization* · *Relationships in Thesauri, Semantic networks and Ontologies*** · *Categories and Conceptual Structures for the Digital Environment* ** · *Alternative subject access, Web Indexing, social tagging, etc*** · *Data Modeling for the Semantic Web vis-à-vis tools such as RDA, FRBR, MARC formats*** · *Indexing and searching in Multilingual environments* · *Organizing Unstructured Information; Enterprise Knowledge Organization and Management* · *Knowledge Organization and the Multimedia challenge: Text, Audio, Video, Images, etc * · *Linguistic and other issues in Automatic categorization & Indexing* Over 55 refereed papers by eminent scholars from around the world will be presented during the conference. The complete conference programme will shortly be made available on the conference website (www.isibang.ac.in/~isko). The *Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Lectures 2012* will be delivered during the conference by *Prof. Shigeo Sugimoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan) *on: “*Sharing Information Resources across Communities and over Time: metadata, digital libraries and archives, and information schools*”. *A panel on* ‘*Is Classification Necessary?’ led by Prof. Birger Horland *will be held on 9th August as part of the conference*. * A pre-conference workshop on *Categories for the Web* will be held on 6thAugust and admission to the workshop is free for all those who register for the ISKO Conference. *Registration Fee*: (Includes admission to the pre-conference workshop, pre-conference volume, Tea and Lunch and invitation to conference dinner) ISKO Members INR 5000.00 Others INR 6000.00 Students INR 4000.00 *For any information please contact: Dr. K. S. Raghavan (ksragav@hotmail.com; raghavan@isibang.ac.in; srels@dataone.in) Convener of the conference. * -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.