NASKO 2021: The 8th North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization online; hosted by University of Washington iSchool, Seattle, Washington Seattle, WA, United States, July 9-11, 2021 |
Conference website | http://www.iskocus.org/index.php |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nasko2021 |
Submission deadline | February 28, 2021 |
Submission deadline: Short Papers and Doctoral Symposium | April 20, 2021 |
NASKO 2021: Resilience, Resistance, and Reflection: Knowledge Organization at a Crossroads
Conference Venue: online, hosted by University of Washington iSchool, Seattle, Washington
Conference Dates: July 9-11, 2021
Deadline for Research (Full) Paper Proposals: February 28, 2021
Deadline for Short Paper and Doctoral Colloquim Proposals: April 20, 2021
The eighth North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO 2021) will be held online July 9-11, 2021. NASKO 2021 is sponsored by the University of Washington iSchool. Please read on for conference information.
Recent world events have presented challenges and hardships, but have also provided opportunities for demonstrations of resilience and optimism. Traditional approaches to Knowledge Organization (KO) have significant cultural and social dimensions, as do newer approaches, including understanding instances of resistance, online calls for social justice and freedom of information made using social media and other collaborative online platforms. Knowledge organization has the power to support or subvert specific points of view and frameworks of understanding, and must be applied ethically and conscientiously online, in libraries and information agencies, in social media, and beyond. KO has a significant role in today’s information environment, as researchers in North America and around the world support health informatics in the midst of a global pandemic, but also work to reconsider the power of the words we use in light of systemic racism. Fake news, #metoo, post-truths, and outright concerns about the validity and contextualization of information invite work by the KO community. NASKO 2021 seeks both to address these issues and to reflect on the full continuum of KO activity, from research exploring community, people, and human-driven practices to theoretical research focusing on core practices in KO.
The Eighth North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO 2021) 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. Researchers studying topics from a KO perspective, including students, practitioners (e.g., librarians, archivists, information managers), and scholars from domains including information science, library science, human-computer interaction, and others are welcome to submit.