The Spanish Chapter of ISKO (International Society of Knowledge Organization) invites original research contributions for the *“9th Conference of the ISKO Spanish Chapter” *which will be held in *Valencia *on *11, 12 and 13 March 2009*.
http://www.iskoix.org/?page_id=13
Under the general heading “New perspectives for the organisation and dissemination of knowledge”, the following topics will be addressed:
– The Epistemology of Knowledge
The challenges of managing knowledge in a multicultural context
The ubiquitous nature of knowledge
Inclusion of ontology
Information design and systems through ontology
Knowledge life cycles: renewal and obsolescence
Ergonomics of perception for improving knowledge
– Representation of knowledge: quantitative modelling
Multi-modal metadata
Indexing and recovery of images, video and audio using search engines
Multi-modal indexing
Ontology and semantic maps
Recommendation and collective filtering systems
Regulations and Standards contributing to the dissemination and accessibility of knowledge
– Social networks and collaborative knowledge
New perspectives for knowledge in Web.2
Access to knowledge
Reusing knowledge in e-administration
Technologies for a semantic Web
Personalising and adapting content
*Proposals for Contributions*
1. Types of contribution accepted
Accepted for this congress will be: papers, posters and workshop proposals.
Individuals wishing to present a paper at the 9th Conference of the ISKO Spanish Chapter must submit a summary which will be checked and then published in a monograph published by Valencia Polytechnic University Publications Service.
2. Checking of papers
The scientific committee of the 9th Conference of the ISKO Spanish Chapter will check and assess summaries to decide on whether to accept or not based on relevance, quality, clarity and originality.
Authors must make clear the central aim or hypothesis of the research, in addition to presenting some initial results.
Key Dates
Submission of summaries: *until 15 september 2008 at the following address
magies@aaa.upv.es
3. Guidelines for sending summaries*
Languages used at the Conference will be Spanish, English and Portuguese, and summaries must be between 500 and 1000 words.
The first page must feature the following information:
– 9th Conference of the ISKO Spanish Chapter, Valencia, 11-13 March 2009
– Names of Authors
– Membership
– Contact details
Type of contribution (Paper, Poster, Workshop)
Title
The summary must be on the second page (no names must appear on this page)
We recommend sending a Word or RTF document by email (with ISKO* *as the Subject) to the following address: magies@aaa.upv.es
The rules for presentation of the contributions accepted shall be sent to the authors when they are informed of the decision of the Scientific Committee.
*IX CONGRESS ISKO – SPAIN */NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR THE ORGANISATION AND DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE/
*Website: www.iskoIX.org <http://www.iskoIX.org>*
*Contact Information*
Secretaría del Congreso
Grupo de Investigación CALSI.
Instituto de Diseño y Fabricación
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Camino de Vera s/n C.P. 46022, Valencia.
Phone: 963877000 Ext. 88924
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