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FWD - Revised dates for ISKO-7
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Thompson)
Wed Jun 20 20:36:20 2001
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:30:31 -0500
From: Mike Thompson <jmthompson@UH.EDU>
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Please excuse cross-posting. Please note revised dates for the
conference.
The Seventh International ISKO Conference. Granada, Spain, 10-13
July, 2002. "Challenges in Knowledge Representation and
Organization for the 21st Century: Integration of Knowledge across
Boundaries." Call for papers.
The need for a worldwide communication system that can retrieve
information efficiently, regardless of national and cultural
boundaries, has become more and more pressing. New electronic
environments (such as the Internet, where the world is at hand,
where all cultures coexist, and where quality is low) have created
this need. These new environments provide significant challenges
for those dedicated to study and research on knowledge
representation and organization. Similarly, the digitalization of
information is responsible for increasing emphasis on the need for
integrating models of knowledge representation and organization.
Digitalization allows a huge amount of information to be stored and
retrieved, and the challenge is to develop models to improve the
management of information in this new framework. Traditional
information retrieval systems face similar problems because we lack
retrieval tools designed to integrate knowledge. In this situation,
an in-depth examination of the integration of knowledge across
boundaries is warranted.
Study of the integration of knowledge leads to other important
topics. One of these is the concept of universality. New insights
into universality needs to include topics geared to the revision of
the concept, such as how universality was previously understood
in knowledge organization, and what problems arose as a
consequence of this understanding. Further, we need to move to a
consideration of the concept of universality as it should be
understood now, in the electronic era. How can universality be
represented in conceptual structures? Integration of specialized
knowledge across geographic or cultural domains can be a way to
address this unsolved problem. Related to the same problem are
topics such as how the integration of knowledge affects different
subject domains and users, linguistic issues, and applications that
support new models. In addition, we need to look at equality in
knowledge organization. This is an important aspect for
supranational systems, and it means that we need a special focus on
minorities so that we can represent them well in knowledge
structures. At the same time, professional ethics needs to be
reflected within this framework because knowledge organization
affects the way people think about and perceive reality, and
minorities and other similar groups may become invisible or wrongly
conceptualized. Professionals need to be aware of these issues and
should be attempting to solve these problems.
In light of these considerations, the integration of knowledge
across boundaries is the general theme of the 7th International
ISKO Conference to be held in Granada (Spain) in July 2002. The
Conference has two main objectives: 1) to analyze models for
knowledge representation and organization, as a state of the art
departure point, and 2) to propose new models, methods and
techniques of integrating knowledge across boundaries in order to
improve performance in the new century.
The conference will include the following specific topics,
among others:
1.Epistemological foundations of knowledge representation and
organization systems and theories
2.Models, methods and concepts for knowledge representation and
organization: towards integration and universality
3.Professional ethics in knowledge representation and organization
4.Users in multicultural domain-oriented and/or general systems
5.Evaluation of supranational systems
6.Internet and the integration of knowledge: artificial intelligence,
data mining, and multicultural systems
Researchers and practitioners involved in knowledge representation
and organization are invited to submit abstract between 500 and
1000 words by September 15, 2001 to Prof. Maria J. Lopez-
Huertas.
Electronic submissions in Word or RTF format are recomended
(please include ISKO in the subject line) to the following address {
HYPERLINK "mailto::mjlopez@ugr.es" }mjlopez@ugr.es
In preparing your abstract please include objectives, methodology
and results as far as possible, and relate your topic to the theme of
the Conference and indicate the category above to which you
believe your paper belongs. An international programme committee
will review the papers, and authors will be notified of decisions by
November 15, 2001. The deadline for submission of papers for the
printed Conference Proceedings will be March 1, 2002.
Accommodation and travel information will come later. Venue of
the Conference:
Palacio de Congresos de Granada (Spain)
Conference Chair: Maria J. Lopez-Huertas
Mailing address: Facultad de Biblioteconom=EDa y
Documentacion (Faculty of Library and Information Science)
Universidad de Granada. Colegio Maximo de Cartuja.
18071 Granada (Spain)
Fax: 34 958 243490
e-mail: { HYPERLINK "mailto:mjlopez@ugr.es" }mjlopez@ugr.es
Clare Beghtol, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Faculty of Information Studies
University of Toronto
140 St. George St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G6
Canada
voice: (416) 978-8852
fax: (416) 971-1399
Clare Beghtol, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Faculty of Information Studies
University of Toronto
140 St. George St.
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G6
Canada
voice: (416) 978-8852
fax: (416) 971-1399
