Conference Venue: Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Conference Dates: June 16-17, 2011

During the 2nd NASKO a workshop was conducted to elicit questions still unanswered in knowledge organization (KO). This is a small sample of questions that emerged from the workshop:

Instruction: What should we be teaching in KO?

Funding: What are the funding needs in order to pursue a future KO research agenda?

Theory: How do we encourage cumulative theory building in KO? How does culture/language influence information retrieval practices? What relationships would be useful in organizing concepts/subjects? What is the best way to convey relationships within classification/KOS? Is there really a conflict between "ontological" and "epistemological" approaches to KO? What is a concept?

Practice: Are there distinct "flavors" of KO in different international areas? Who do you need to be working with? What is a community? How do we visualize complex multidimensional classifications? How do we create crosswalks from one system to another? How do we create flexible systems for changing users and artifacts?

Open research questions: How do artifacts evolve in terms of their use and representation? How do we handle the collapse of the artifact in inter-linked resources that provide access to internal parts, and to aggregated wholes? How can the potential of social tagging best be harnessed? How can social tagging and vocabulary control interact? How do we bridge the gap between theories and applications? How can we apply KO so that we meet those (???) interdisciplinary needs?

The International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) – Canada/United States Chapter invites researchers to report on these and other open questions in KO research (e.g., domain analysis, synthesis of legacy KOSs and newer approaches, the intellectual culture of KO, etc.) at the 3rd NASKO through submissions of proposals for research papers, position papers, posters, and workshop proposals. Acceptable languages for conference submissions include English, French or Spanish. Doctoral students are especially invited to submit proposals.

Proposal categories:

Research and Position Papers: Proposals should include a title and be no more than 1500 words long. Proposals should be situated in the extant literature of knowledge organization and have a clearly articulated theoretical grounding and methodology. Those that report completed or ongoing work will be given preference. Diverse perspectives and methodologies are welcome.

Posters: Proposals should include a title and be no more than 650 words long.

Workshops: Proposals should include a title, an estimated time frame for the workshop, and a brief description (650 words maximum).

Publication: All accepted papers will be published online. The papers most highly-ranked during the peer-review process will, with permission of the authors, be published, in full, in a future issue of Knowledge Organization.

Deadline for proposals is February 15, 2011.

Proposal format: Proposals should include the name(s) of the author(s), mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and fax numbers. Please send proposals in Word or .rtf format to Nicolas George: nasko2011@iskocus.org.

Proposals will be refereed by the Program Committee. Authors will be notified of the committee’s decision no later than March 11, 2011. All presenters must register for the conference. Papers to appear as full text in the electronic proceedings must be submitted no later than May 20, 2011.

Planning Committee:

• Richard P. Smiraglia, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  
• Abby Goodrum, Ryerson University
  

Program Committee:

• Amelia Abreu, University of Washington
  
• Clément Arsenault, Université de Montréal
  
• Clare Beghtol, University of Toronto
  
• Thomas M. Dousa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  
• Jonathan Furner, University of California, Los Angeles
  
• Nicolas George, Indiana University, Bloomington
  
• Abby A. Goodrum, Ryerson University
  
• Rebecca Green, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
  
• Lynne Howarth, University of Toronto
  
• Michele Hudon, Université de Montréal
  
• Elin K. Jacob, Indiana University, Bloomington
  
• Margaret E. I. Kipp, University of Wisconsin, Milwakuee
  
• Barbara Kwasnik, Syracuse University
  
• Kathryn La Barre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  
• Hur-Li Lee, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  
• Aaron Loehrlein, University of British Columbia
  
• Christine Marchese, Long Island University
  
• Elaine Ménard, McGill University
  
• Shawne Miksa, University of North Texas, Denton
  
• Hope Olson, University of Wisconsin, Milwakuee
  
• David M. Pimentel, Syracuse University
  
• Richard P. Smiraglia, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  
• Rick Szostak, University of Alberta
  
• Joseph T. Tennis, University of Washington
  
• Nancy Williamson, University of Toronto