7th ISKO Spanish Chapter Conference (Barcelona, 6-8 July 2005)

[José Antonio Frías]

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 at 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 at ub.edu 




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