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Suzanne Barbalet The Observatory for Knowledge Organisation Systems workshop, an event of KNOWeSCAPE – Analyzing the Dynamics of Information and Knowledge Landscapes, met in Malta from 1-3 February this year. KNOWeSCAPE is funded under the European Cooperation in Science and … Continue reading →

Suzanne Barbalet Summer began early for many of us who had travelled to Bergen to attend IASSIST 2016 held from 31 May to 3 June and we were grateful for the wonderful hospitality provided by Norwegian Centre for Research Data … Continue reading →

Suzanne Barbalet Subject authority control, a once taken-for-granted principle of resource discovery, is a somewhat neglected topic that the recent Biennial International UDC Seminar in Lisbon raised to prominence at a two-day meeting on the 29th-30th October 2015. One hundred … Continue reading →

Suzanne Barbalet The recent ISKO UK Conference 2015 was titled ‘Making a Difference’ and while the keynote addresses did not disappoint the paper that especially appeared to capture the theme and focus of the conference for all participants carried the … Continue reading →

Suzanne Barbalet Recently we attended an International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) event in London entitled The Great Debate: “This house believes that the traditional thesaurus has no place in modern information retrieval”. Little contention marked the proceedings in what, … Continue reading →