Conference Date: July 6-8, 2005
Conference Location: Barcelona, Spain
Deadline: October 25, 2004
7th ISKO-Spain Conference The human dimension of knowledge organisation.
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.
Guidelines
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@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.
For more information visit:
Call for Papers (English): http://bd.ub.es/isko2005/en/resums.php
Conference Main Page: http://bd.ub.es/isko2005/
