NASKO 2019: Knowledge Organization: Community and Computation
Call for Participation
Conference Venue: Metadata Research Center, College of Computing & Informatics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Conference Dates: June 13 – 14, 2019
Conference information can be found here.
Deadline for Proposals: March 1, 2019
Knowledge organization systems, practices, and communities form the infrastructure for widespread knowledge sharing. Practitioners turn to universal knowledge organizing systems to produce and freely exchange data and information. Additionally, the digital information environment has invited experimentation and new approaches in KO-related computation, including ontologies and linked data applications.
Both traditional and newer approaches to KO have significant cultural and social dimensions that must not be underestimated though. Knowledge organization has the power to support or subvert specific points of view and frameworks of understanding. Historically, the perspectives of certain communities, including regional groups, cultural groups, and domains of practice have been underrepresented in knowledge organization. Computational approaches offer new possibilities in KO, but also run the risk of further marginalizing some community knowledges. KO has an even more significant role today’s information environment as well, as we face accusations of fake news, post-truths, and outright concerns about the validity and contextualization of information. NASKO 2019 seeks to address these issues by examining KO innovations, communities, and consequences, encompassing the full continuum of KO activity, from research exploring community, people, and human-driven practices to research on computational approaches.
The Seventh North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO 2019) invites submissions covering, but not limited to KO history and foundations, theory, epistemological stances, domain analytical approaches, community of practices, community representation and misrepresentation, digital life-cycle, and computational approaches.
Proposal Categories include: Research and Position Papers, Posters, and the Doctoral Symposium (described below).
The conference schedule will also include an Educators Open Forum addressing curriculum for KO educators. Further information on the Forum is forthcoming.
Instructions
Proposals for research papers, position papers, posters, and the doctoral symposium are welcomed. Acceptable languages for conference submissions include English, French, or Spanish. Graduate students are especially encouraged to submit proposals. Proposals should include the name(s) of the author(s), their complete mailing and e-mail addresses, and their telephone numbers. The title of the proposal should include a term denoting the category of submission: Paper, Poster, Doctoral Symposium.
All proposals should be uploaded to the EasyChair conference site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nasko2019
Proposal categories:
Research and Position Papers:
Proposals should include a title and be no more than 1500 words with citations (citations not included in word count). Proposals should situate themselves within the extant literature of knowledge organization, and have a clearly articulated theoretical grounding and methodology. Those that report on 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 500 words with citations (citations not included in word count).
Doctoral Symposium:
This is an opportunity for doctoral students to discuss their research in progress in a 15-minute presentation. Proposals should consist of a 500-word abstract with citations (citations not included in word count) and a one-page CV. Students will also have the opportunity to attend a general advising session to discuss their CVs, service commitments, and the job market. Students accepted into the doctoral symposium will have their conference registration fees waived (chaired by Jane Greenberg).
Publication:
All accepted papers will be published online in the University of Washington Archive; an open access repository. 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.
Program Committee:
Brian Dobreski, Syracuse University, co-chair
Laura Ridenour, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, co-chair
Melissa Adler, University of Western Ontario
Grant Campbell, University of Western Ontario
Rachel Ivy Clarke, Syracuse University
Thomas Dousa, University of Chicago
Melodie Fox, Bryant & Stratton College
Michael Ginda, Indiana University
Timothy Gorichanaz, Drexel University
Jane Greenberg, Drexel University
Eva Jansen, University of Toronto
Patrick Keilty, University of Toronto
Barbara Kwaśnik, Syracuse University
Hannah Lee, Power Level Productions
Daniel Martínez Ávila, São Paulo State University
Hyoungjoo Park, University of Wisconsin-Milwauke
Richard Smiraglia, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Ali Shiri, University of Alberta