7th ISKO Spanish Chapter Conference (Barcelona, 6-8 July 2005) (no sender) 09 Aug 2004 22:47 UTC
7th ISKO-Spain Conference The human dimension of knowledge organisation Barcelona 6-8 July 2005 The focus of the 7th ISKO-Spain Conference is on orienting users of systems and applications of information organisation and retrieval in companies, public administration, archives and document centres, portals or internet services, databases and digital libraries. Knowledge organization has traditionally been centred on representational objects -texts, images and documents in general- or on computer systems that facilitate information retrieval. It is ever more apparent that there is a need to take into consideration the cognitive, physical, and affective characteristics of different types of people when designing applications. Currently, with the availability of personalized systems that facilitate the interaction between persons and organisation systems, questions are being asked such as: -How to improve universal access to information? -How to obtain maximum performance from the management of knowledge in organizations? -How to incorporate users into the design cycles of knowledge organization systems? -How to respond to differences (social, cultural, etc.) of the users of these systems? TOPICS . Theoretical base of knowledge organization: what it contributes to understanding the context of human perception; linguistic, social and cultural bases; and structures for representing knowledge. . Design centred on the user of knowledge organization systems: management of content in different systems; usability, personalization, interoperability and multilingualism; design models based on artificial intelligence and natural language processing; its evaluation. . Users and use of knowledge organization systems: search behaviour and the social use of Internet; training and competence in information handling; accessibility and the digital divide between different sectors of society; detecting needs for accessing web-based contents and electronic training for the disabled. . Applications of knowledge organization systems: the market for knowledge organization systems; content classification systems (categories and taxonomies of web sites); intermediaries, disintermediation and re-intermediation; ethical aspects. SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS OF PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS Authors have to present an abstract of their work -either oral presentations or posters- that will be reviewed by an evaluation committee as to timeliness, interest and originality. Abstracts of presentations should be at least 700 words long. They should include: title, objectives and the premise of the work, methodology followed, conclusions arrived at and, if relevant, references to 3 works used as a bibliography. The length foreseen for the presentation, not to exceed 20 minutes, should also be indicated. Abstracts of posters should be 500 words long and include titles, objectives, conclusions and a formal description of the poster. In all cases the name and address (post and electronic) with the contact's telephone should be provided for each presenter. Abstracts should be sent by e-mail in MS Word or another compatible format to isko2005@ub.edu. Acceptance of the abstract of a presentation requires the tacit commitment that at least one of the authors will be present to make the presentation during the congress. The working languages of the conference will be Catalan, Spanish and the English although works may be submitted in other languages. DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS: 25 OCTOBER 2004 Additional contact information: 7th ISKO-Spain Conference http://bd.ub.es/isko2005/ Technical Secretariat of the Conference Departament de Biblioteconomia i Documentació de la Universitat de Barcelona Edifici UB-Sants Melcior de Palau, 140 08014 Barcelona, SPAIN Tel. (34) 93 403 57 67 Fax (34) 93 403 57 72 e-mail: isko2005@ub.edu