12th ISKO Italy Meeting
"Knowledge Organization and Representation:
Convergences and New Opportunities"
University of Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), April 10-11, 2025

The International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) brings together scholars interested in how information contents can be structured in knowledge organization systems (KOSs) such as classifications, thesauri, taxonomies, ontologies, semantic networks, etc. The principles underlying these systems are conceptual in nature and have traditionally been identified intellectually. However, they are now increasingly supported by automatic natural language processing (NLP) techniques and other artificial intelligence techniques. The conference aims to connect these different aspects, viewing them not as competitors but as allies with the common goal of structuring and using knowledge, exploring them from an interdisciplinary perspective including information science, text and document science, linguistics, computer science, and philosophy. Contributions are invited on the following topics:
    - principles and techniques of knowledge organization;
    - documentary languages and knowledge organization systems (KOSs);
    - ontologies and Semantic Web representation languages (SKOS, RDF, OWL, SPARQL, etc.);
    - knowledge graphs and artificial intelligence for knowledge organization;
    - applications based on the conceptual structuring of information;
    - application of KO solutions to information systems with specific purposes and/or targeted to particular user groups.

Organizers

The conference is organized by the Documentation Laboratory, Department of Cultures, Education and Society of the University of Calabria, the Institute of Informatics and Telematics, National Research Council (IIT-CNR), Unit of Cosenza, and the Italian Chapter of ISKO and will be held in person at the University of Calabria. As is customary, the event will also be an opportunity for the presentation of scientific activities related to the themes of the conference by ISKO members. 

 

Call for papers

Important dates
Deadline for extended abstract submission (1000-1200 words, including bibliography): December 20, 2024  January 12, 2025
Notification of acceptance to authors: January 31, 2025
Conference: April 10-11, 2025
Deadline for full paper submission: July 15, 2025
Notification of acceptance to authors: September 30, 2025
Camera-ready submission: October 20, 2025
Proceedings publication: December 2025

Participation Modes
Presenters in person, participants in person and/or online.

Contributions
Proposals, written in Italian or English, must be submitted anonymously in .doc or .docx format to the following address: iskoitalia2025@labdoc.it. Submitted proposals will undergo a double-blind review process and will be published in issue 3-4 July-December 2025 of AIDAinformazioni: Rivista di Scienze dell’Informazione (ISSN: 1121-0095, https://www.aidainformazioni.it).

 

Registration

Information about registration will be available closer to the conference date.