International Society for Knowledge Organization

The International Society for Knowledge Organization, or ISKO, is a professional association for scholars of knowledge organization, knowledge structures, classification studies, and information organization and structure.

International Society for Knowledge Organization

Formation	1989 (1989)
Founder	Ingetraut Dahlberg
Legal status	Active
Region	World
President	Thiago Henrique Bragato Barros
Past-President	Rick Szostak
Treasurer	Athena Salaba
Secretary	David Haynes
Board of directors	Lu An (CHINA) Claudio Gnoli (University of Pavia, Italy) [ex-officio as Webmaster] Birger Hjørland (Royal School of LIS, Copenhagen, Denmark) [as SAC Chair] Athena Salaba (Kent State University, Kent, USA) [as Treasurer] Richard P. Smiraglia (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA) Rick Szostak (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) [as President] Thiago Barros (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) [as President] Marcia Lei Zeng (Kent State University, Kent, USA)
Affiliations	UNESCO, European Commission, ISO, IFLA, ASIS&T SIG/CR, NKOS, Infoterm
Website	http://www.isko.org/index.php

Publications

The Society publishes the academic journal Knowledge Organization as the official bi-monthly journal of ISKO. Founded in 1973 by Dr. Ingetraut Dahlberg, the first President of ISKO, it began publication the following year under the banner International Classification. In 1993 the title was changed to its present form. The journal publishes original research articles relating to general ordering theory, philosophical foundations of knowledge and its artifacts, theoretical bases of classification, data analysis and reduction. It also describes practical operations associated with indexing and classification. In addition to being a technical resource, the journal traces the history of knowledge organization and discusses questions of education and training in classification.

Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization

Since 2016, ISKO has published the Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization (IEKO), edited by Birger Hjorland and Claudio Gnoli. This work covers the history and development of different approaches to knowledge, core concepts in the space, comparisons of different systems and processes, and examples from current practice in regional and global projects.

The organization also holds biennial international conferences.

Chapters

ISKO officially recognizes regional chapters in Brazil, Canada and the United States, China, France, Germany (including Austria and Switzerland), India, Italy, Maghreb (including Tunisia + Algeria + Morocco), Poland, Singapore, Spain (including Portugal), the United Kingdom, and West Africa. ISKO cooperates with international and national organizations such as UNESCO, the European Commission, the International Organization for Standardization, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, the Association for Information Science and Technology, the Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services, and the International Information Centre for Terminology.

Other reading

Dahlberg, Ingetraut (2010) International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition, 1: 1, 2941 — 2949.

External links

• International Society for Knowledge Organization (homepage)
• "ISKO" in ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization
• International Society for Knowledge Organization-Brasil