The Integrative Levels Classification #ILC research group held its 1st meeting on Nov 15 in margin of ISKO conference in Porto: www.iskoi.org/ilc/meeting1.php. We shared updates and plans in a lively atmosphere. Our #KO system keeps developing! @badtaxonomist.bsky.social @davidbawden.bsky.social

Next I2SP Research Group Seminar (LERASS) November 28, 2:00 p.m. (Paris time) Yutong Fei – Classification of Citation Contexts Marcin Roszkowski – Knowledge Organization Practices in Wikidata Join via Zoom: univ-montp3-fr.zoom.us/j/9369868199... #KO

"Information and the Emergence of Complexity" I'm looking forward to an IAIS dialogue with @saraimari.bsky.social, moderated by Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic. Wednesday, November 19th, 2025 17:30 (CET) | 11:30 AM (EST) meet.google.com/gqm-frcd-apg... More info: sites.google.com/view/iais-in...

An intense day at ISKO Ibérico in Porto, presenting with Patrícia de Almeida of #ILC research group on citation order in freely faceted classification. #KO

E' uscita una nuova puntata della mia rubrica di #KO su AIDA informazioni: "Il macellaio pragmatista", su come si possa suddividere la realtà in classi più o meno naturali, da Platone a John Dupré... www.aidainformazioni.it/index.php/ai...

Can AI help build correct equivalence relationships and scope notes in thesaurus construction? doi.org/10.31083/KO4... Why read? Culture-specific task & solid methodology. What’s next? Author: need for automated evaluation, cross-domain exploration. #KO #Thesaurus #Relationships #ScopeNotes #AAT

On 7 Oct 2025, ISKO UK hosted its 8th Biennial Conference, “Knowledge Organization in the Age of AI”. We welcomed: 🌍 80 participants from 25 countries 💡 10 expert speakers Thanks to all who joined us for a global & engaging event. 🖥️ Slides: iskouk.org/isko-uk-conf...

📢 In uscita il 24 ottobre il libro dell'amico Davide Astori: "Che cos’è una lingua inventata"! www.carocci.it/prodotto/che...

Just created #KO bsky.app/starter-pack...

@cilipmdg.bsky.social invites participants to a WorldCafe Event @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on the topic of Subject Analysis & LCSH within the current metadata landscape. Wed 26th November 2025 11:00-16:00 Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw #cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics

How can three popular chatbots support subject cataloging using DDC, LCC, and LCSH? doi.org/10.5860/lrts... Why read? Replicable assessment methodology for automatic indexing. What’s next? Observing real chatbot use in cataloging (as the authors suggest). #ShortReview #KO #AI #SubjectCataloging

Link to the conference: www.iskouk.org/isko-uk-conf...

Why don't we use KOSs in addition to LLMs? A question put to us by Joseph Busch at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference

@gnoli.eu chaired the first session of the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference. An emerging theme seems to be about the use of AI to enhance indexing of resources, but with human oversight. We do not seem to be yet at the stage where AI generated indexing or metadata is totally reliable.

Today is the ISKO UK conference "Knowledge Organization in the Age of AI." The programme is here: iskouk.org/isko-uk-conf... #AI #KnowledgeOrganization #Conference #ISKOUK

Philosopher John Searle has died.

We’re excited to share our new covers for our ‘Introduction to’ series! Written by experts, these titles will enable readers to gain an in-depth understanding of the topics, ranging from healthcare knowledge to documentation studies. Learn more: www.facetpublishing.co.uk

Stephen Jay Gould was born OTD in 1941. “Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table.... Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.” 🦫🦋🐋🌱🧠🗃️🧪#HistSTM #PhilSci #EvoBio

Droninoite is a mineral originated both in outer space and on Earth: www.altavaltrebbia.net/2025/09/03/t... Same conditions produce items of the same entity though with different histories. Typology vs genealogy, David Hull would say. But not a real difference according to informational ontology...

Coloured ribbons representing the ten #ILC categories at 2nd MaVi rally: black=type, then clockwise quality, quantity, part, property, transformation, opposition, agent, place, time, perspective #KO

Very excited to be doing this panel "Ontologies at the End of the World" with @murmz.bsky.social on Instauration in Bruno Latour and Francis Bacon — our talk Memory, Reason & Imagination, and the Coloniality of Knowledge Organization

An interesting new entry in ISKO Encyclopedia of #KO, from an ARIST paper: Semantic primitives, by Birger Hjørland www.isko.org/cyclo/primit... @kausch.bsky.social you're cited...

Was not aware that crossovers between the fields of terminology in translation studies and knowledge organization go back to Ingetraut Dahlberg and the founding of InfoTerm out of UNESCO? www.infoterm.info

William Sharp Macleay was born OTD in 1792. His Quinarian system launched a vogue in the 1820s-1830s for systems of biological classification based on the assumption that nature is so well ordered that animals can be classified in a nested hierarchy of simple, geometrical forms. 🌱🐋🧪 #HistSTM

Bravo @stefanorizzato.bsky.social a citare il motivo di protesta (Israele) del manifestante, che non mi pare abbia creato pericoli, anziché censurarlo come altri telecronisti. Lo sport ci piace se non si chiude in una torre d'avorio. @raisport.bsky.social

And you believed that shelf mark ordering was an issue of the past... #KO

L'uomo che ci ha insegnato a scrivere: il mio contributo in ricordo di Eugenio Gatto www.iskoi.org/doc/gatto/gn...

New placeholder entry in ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization #KO, filling an important gap: Classification Research Group (CRG), by Ia McIlwaine and Vanda Broughton www.isko.org/cyclo/crg

I support #climate activists as long as they focus on a clear plea. But some have started to address many different issues concerning inequality, wars etc. I believe this is not productive as they now become "those against everything" and as such are less considered. Let's focus on specific targets.

My sister Eve Kausch, an archivist at Kenyon College in Ohio, showing me their copy of Wilkin's Essay today in the special collections department

At long last, my PhD dissertation—Charles Darwin’s Science of History—has been filed and approved. I graduate shortly. The abstract is below. 🌱🐋🦋🦫🗃️🧠🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci

The proceedings for the forthcoming CoLIS 2025 conference are hot off the press, published in Information Research. Outstanding work by all involved! https://doi.org/10.47989/ir30CoLIS #colis #informationresearch #informationscience #libraries

This is completely wrong! And if I ask Google the same in Italian, the answer is Feb, Mar, Nov & Dec, which is also wrong -- in the case of February, it is even logically impossible. Are we sure we want to index documents by AI?...

On 20 May 2025, I was invited to give a webinar to the ISKO UK Meetup about our recenly published survey “A Survey on Knowledge Organization Systems of Research Fields: Resources and Challenges“. www.salatino.org/wp/webinar-t... #KOS #taxonomies #ontologies

A free seminar on #KO applied to linguistic education using #ILC categories

Reading this intriguing monograph thanks to the book review by @gnoli.eu . A well written and lucid book on the topic! I am learning a lot

Happy May Day from traditional begging for eggs and wine, singing and visiting the hamlets of Farini, Piacenza Apennines. #4P

My Ranganathan Lectures 2023 "Classification in the wider philosophical perspective of informational ontology" are now published in two parts in the Journal of Information and Knowledge. DM for details. #KO www.srels.org/index.php/sj...

How to order 187 geographic subdivisions of a class? Municipalities in the Province of Alessandria are now listed in #ILC by spiral order N-E-S-W of the 24 most populated ones, plus the surrounding ones kept at the same rank by emptying digit -z-: www.iskoi.org/ilc/no.php?n...

With some members of ISKO Italy and organizing team of a successful ISKOI conference at Uni Calabria #KO

The second day of an interesting meeting of the ISKO Italia at the University of Calabria. Yesterday the #ALLERGIDOC project was presented to an international audience.

How can we navigate the complex landscape of #Science and #Research? Our new survey paper on research organisation systems has been accepted by @QSS_ISSI! We analysed 45 taxonomies and ontologies and discussed key trends. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2409.04432 #OpenScience @kmiou

La version 3.0 de l'ontologie #ALLERGIDOC est désormais disponible en ligne : bioportal.lirmm.fr/ontologies/ALL… ! Elle peut être utilisée pour effectuer des annotations de textes dans bioportal.lirmm.fr/annotator .

Proud of my paper accepted for publication in Synthese, trying to build bridges between #philsci and #ko philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24918/

Very excited that my paper "Knowledge Translation as an Interdsiciplinary Method for Information Science" is out in the Journal of Documentation: www.emerald.com/insight/cont... I hope to follow up with this theoretical paper with more applied methods at NASKO this year

Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop 2025 will be held at TPDL conference in Tampere, Finland, on September 23. Consider submitting your extended abstract before April 4: nkos.dublincore.org/2025NKOSwork... #KO

Very grateful for the February Critcatenate summary of the LCSH changes to the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali headings as it made it nice and easy to explain to colleagues cataloginglab.org/2025/02/ #critcat

We just published a new entry in ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization #KO: The Soviet Institute of Scientific Information (VINITI), by Björn Hammarfelt @hammarfelt.bsky.social and Johanna Dahlin www.isko.org/cyclo/viniti

"The very bulk of scientific publications is itself delusive. It is of very unequal value; a large proportion of it, possibly as much as three-quarters, does not deserve to be published at all, and is only published for economic considerations" (JD Bernal 1939) @predatoryjournals.org