Here are the video files for our three keynotes, together with the supporting slides.

Patrick Lambe – The New Frontier in Knowledge Organisation: integrating methods, technologies and standards to deliver extraordinary results - the supporting slides are here
Charlie Hull – The Future of Search: fishing the streams of Big Data - the supporting slides are here
Matt Moore – Competence and Knowledge Organisation - the supporting slides are here

I have been working for some time on a National Science Foundation funded project with the American Institutes for Research to examine how machine classification working with taxonomies can be used to give greater insight into science and engineering activities, outputs and impact. An update on our project has just been published in the UK research periodical Research Fortnight, written with Evgeny Klochikin of the American Institutes of Research. RF460_p21_Klochikhin_Lambe.pdf

Here are the videos from 14 of the 15 case studies presented at the IKO Conference on 8-9 June. The video album containing all of the videos in a single gallery is here. We've also posted links to the supporting slides and materials against each video.

Agnes Molnar – Next Generation SharePoint Supporting materials here
Ahren Lehnert – Text Mining and Analytics Supporting materials here
Charlie Hull – Implementing open source search Supporting materials here 
Dave Clarke – OASIS: deep image indexing Supporting materials here 
Elisa Erriquez & Jenni Wardell – Linked Data at the BBC Supporting materials here 
Maish Nichani – Designing a search based app Supporting materials here 
Marjorie Hlava – Quick start smart thesaurus Supporting materials here 
Nor Azlinayati – Padipedia: knowledge base on padi production using semantic web technology Supporting materials here 
Eric Tsui – Hybrid folksonomy-taxonomy Supporting materials here 
Haliza Jailani – Enhanced search with entity recognition and Linked Data Supporting materials here 
Kia Siang Hock – Single OneSearch Service across libraries, archives and museums Supporting materials here 
Mark Glikson – Deploying a semantic operating system Supporting materials here 
Nor Azlinayati– KRSTE.my knowledge base on science and technology using Linked Data and semantic search Supporting materials here 
Patrick Lambe & Loh Yu Gene – Graph database to build a knowledge mapping tool Supporting materials here

Here are the videos for the 7 minute mini-tutorials in knowledge organisation from our “Innovations in Knowledge Organisation” Conference last week. Links to slides are also attached. These tutorials were delivered in Pecha Kucha format (20 slides at 20 seconds each, set to automatic advance) - hence very concise and fast-paced!

Taxonomies, ontologies and knowledge graphs – Patrick Lambe (download slides here)
Autoclassification and text analytics – Ahren Lehnert (download slides here)
Linked Data – Dave Clarke (download slides here)
Standards for taxonomies and Linked Data – Marjorie Hlava (download slides here)
No SQL and graph databases – Yu Gene Loh (download slides here)
Open source search – Charlie Hull (download slides here)
Search based applications – Agnes Molnar (download slides here)
Internet of Things – Maish Nichani (download slides here)


View the full collection of videos on Vimeo here.

A number of photos we took during the IKO Conference last week have now been posted on Flickr. Enjoy! https://www.flickr.com/photos/132267944@N05/sets/72157654172646200

Here's Agnes Molnar's review of the IKO Conference at ITUnity.com, with a great set of key takeaways and themes from the conference. I feel exactly the same way about this comment of hers: "It was really energizing to be able to be in the company of such great people, with a broad range of expertise". That goes for speakers and participants combined!

Here is the pdf version of the full Conference Guide provided to participants. The guide contains the complete agenda, the speaker profiles, the content of the case study outlines, and the knowledge organisation competency framework. It was a great conference, thanks to all the speakers and participants for their wonderful participation!

We'll be posting videos from the event over the next couple of weeks.

Here’s some of the feedback we received:

“Interesting topics in diverse range of disciplines”
“Short sessions around the tables are very good =)”
“How wide the range of uses and applications of the technologies were. The application of search to Linked Data sets as well is going to provide a lot of food for thought.”
“I feel you guys fed us well. =) More chocolates on the table!”
“The conference has given me much insights to KO, for a newbie like myself. The taxonomy and ontology is very interesting.”
“Collected IDEAS that I’m likely to explore & recommend for implementation.”
“Very informative and interesting!”
“A good understanding of the processes and tools employed by other organisations to organise information.”
“I still have a lot to learn!!! The tutorials were helpful.”
“As a beginner I got a good overview of KM/KO and the jargon/common terms used. I learned some common pitfalls of KO and how I would avoid these in my future projects. The most useful takeaway is the poster and how to build taxonomy and of course the very enriching and engaging sharing of experience.”
“Understanding what has been done by other institutions. This has given me an idea of how I would adopt some of them for my institution.”
“Good overview of KM related topics and current trends and how to integrate these into more balanced and holistic approaches.”
“I’m very amazed”
“Well done. Keep it up!”
“Keep doing it. The conference will grow”

Here are the slides from the Knowledge Organisation Clinic at the IKO Conference this week:

The topics and challenges identified at the end of Day 1, consolidated into ten topic areas
Reference slides on the standards process provided by Marjorie Hlava for her clinic session on Day 2