Thanks to Aida Slavic and #ISKOUK for organising a brilliant biennial conference on 'Knowledge Organization in the Age of AI'

Maybe we cannot 'solve' the problem of different representations of communities. It is more of a process (e.g. by participatory governance). Otherwise we could be guilty of erasure of other experience. It is difficult and could be uncomfortable. Joseph Busch at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference.

Terminology is used in specific context. Participatory governance - include the communities that are being described by those systems - to more fairly represent communities. Julaine Clunis at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference

Joane Casenave, Widad M El Hadi, and Thibault Grison from the University of Lille (France)
 are doing a joint presentation on 'Artificial intelligence, KO and information mediation on the Web: from ethical dimensions to social responsibility' at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference

Good to see a typology of explainable AI (XAI) methods used for analysing KOSs in Julaine Clunis' paper at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference

Very interested to hear about Biases in KOSs in Julaine Clunis' talk at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference. This is a real problem when it comes to algorithmic bias.

Need a formal evaluation of 2dseach rather than the error checking and anecdotal evaluations - according to Tony Russell-Rose at #ISKOUK 2025 Conference

Refinement of searches through exploration built into the LEGO model described by Tony Russell-Rose at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference.

What happens when you try to build a systematic search system 'for real'? What are the practicalities? Prof. Tony Russell-Rose at #ISKOUK 2025 Conference

Tony Russell-Rose of City St George's, University of London (UK)
 on 'Building and deploying LLMs for search and retrieval' at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference

In open world AI only 20 or 30 ontologies are used out of nearly 900 ontologies reviewed by Mayukh Bagchi and presented at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference

Mayukh Bagchi of the University of Trento (Italy)
 talks about 'Generative knowledge organization via human-LLM collaboration' at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference

Even small errors in automatic generation of a KOS can have a disproportionate effect on its performance. @angelosalatino.bsky.social #ISKOUK 2025 Conference

Using AI to generate KOSs - @angelosalatino.bsky.social proposes an alternative to statistical inference for automatic generation of ontologies of research topics #ISKOUK 2025 Conference

Machine-readable thesauri are essential. @angelosalatino.bsky.social identifies some major thesauri are only available as PDFs. There are a good number available in RDF. #ISKOUK 2025 conference

Angelo Salatino @angelosalatino.bsky.social of The Open University (UK)
 talks about 'Knowledge organization systems of research fields: overview and automatic generation' at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference

Tanja Svarre @drsvarre.bsky.social opens the third session of the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference with a presentation by Angelo Salatino @angelosalatino.bsky.social.

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

🤖 Is AI ever really neutral? Neutrality is an illusion. AI tools reflect the biases in their data and design. This week’s Slow AI practice: after any polished AI answer, pause and ask, who might this disadvantage? theslowai.substack.com/p/ai-neutral... #SlowAI #AIethics #AI #SciComm

Should prompting engineering be a part of preparation of students for the workplace? Joseph Busch has introduced some interesting concepts in his overview of the development of AI in retrieval at the #ISKOUK 2025 conference

Joseph Busch of Taxonomy Strategies (USA)
 talks about 'The case for general purpose categorizers as part of the AI ecosystem' at the #ISKOUK 2025 conference

Fascinating to learn about 'Potemkin Understanding' - i.e. a facade (or illusion) of understanding exhibited by LLMs - Ronald Siebes at the #ISKOUK 2025 conference

Ronald Siebes from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)
 talks about 'Potemkin Understanding: the illusion of thinking' 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.

Ziyoung Park from Hansung University (South Korea) talks about '
Co-creating with GenAI and expert review: empowering KOS projects through design, automation and recommendation' #ISKOUK 2025 Conference

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

The ISKO UK 2025 Conference "Knowledge Organization in the Age of AI: Innovation, Integration and Impact" online on 7 October 2025. Speakers will showcase ways to improve KOS quality and knowledge discovery with AI. All info here www.archivesportaleurope.net/blog/knowled... #iskouk

Marcia Zeng points out some of the problems of being solely dependent on AI for indexing #ISKOUK 2025 Conference

Prof. Marcia Zeng takes us on a tour of different semantic systems using AI technology to enhance indexing and search performance. This includes inferential reasoning. So for instance, a geographical name links to geographic coordinates, and regional information. #ISKOUK 2025 conference

Marcia Zeng from Kent State University (USA): talk about 'The role of KOS in AI-supported semantic integration: disambiguation, identification, linking' #ISKOUK 2025 conference

Fascinating talk by Andrea Scharnhorst about building knowledge bases. Interesting reference to co-creation of archival materials. Also considers multi-sensory and multi-layered indexing #ISKOUK 2025 Conference

Lijuan Luo talks about her research on ‘Internationalisation-at-home in Chinese Universities: Contradictions and Potential Changes’ #ENUDoctoralConference24 #ENUDCC24 @edinburghnapier.bsky.social

Andrea Nolan our president talks about her research career at Napier's first Doctoral College conference. She started her career as a vet, but got involved in research early in her career. #ENUDoctoralConference24 #ENUDCC24 @edinburghnapier.bsky.social

Aleksander Bielinski talks about his research on ‘Enhancing the Skill Extraction through Contrast’. #ENUDoctoralConference24 #ENUDCC24 @edinburghnapier.bsky.social

Marianne Wilson presents a good example of Delphi type studies for polling a panel of experts to discover consensus. Her research looked at the use of chatbots in career services. #ENUDCC24 #ENUDoctoralConference24 @edinburghnapier.bsky.social

Marianne Wilson talks about her research on ‘A Career Information Chatbot: Designing for usefulness with practitioners’ #ENUDCC24 #ENUDoctoralConference24 @edinburghnapier.bsky.social

Brilliant poster by Leslie Abbott on ‘From Margins to Metadata: Queer Power Structures’ #ENUDoctoralConference24 #ENUDCC24 @edinburghnapier.bsky.social

Great range of topics in the 3-minute pitches by research students, encompassing: intensive care, policing in Scotland, research methods, water contamination and cognitive therapy. Brilliant mind-expanding presentations at #ENUDoctoralConference24 #ENUDCC24

Great to attend the first Doctoral College Symposium at Edinburgh Napier University #ENUDoctoralConference24 with opening 3-minute presentations by our brilliant research students.

Good to see the latest issue of Knowledge Organization with part one of a special issue on 'Critical and Social Knowledge Organization' www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0943...

Implacáveis de Yuval Noah Harari foi uma leitura fantástica para alguém que está aprendendo português. Apresenta a história humana em um formato acessível sem condescendência.

Just finished reading Yuval Noah Harari’s latest book ‘Nexus’. Some interesting reflections on the role of algorithms in creating a storm of misinformation on certain social media sites. He suggests that AI could make things much worse.

Love learning Scots Gaelic on Duolingo, but annoyed by their habit of upgrading my account without my permission.