International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) Singapore

International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) Singapore is rated 3 out of 5 in the category civic & social organization. Read and write reviews about International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) Singapore. Our mission is to promote the theory and practice of organising knowledge and information to support organisational effectiveness, community benefits and social progress. We do this through fostering awareness, sharing, learning, dialogue and networking among practitioners and researchers in the field both locally and internationally. Founded in 1989, the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) is the leading international society for the organization of knowledge. The Society has a broad and interdisciplinary scope. Its mission is to advance conceptual work on knowledge organization in all kinds of forms, and for all kinds of purposes such as databases, libraries, dictionaries and the Internet. As an interdisciplinary society, ISKO brings together professionals from many different fields, with more than 500 individual and institutional members from all over the world, working in fields such as information science, philosophy, linguistics, computer science or special domains such as medical informatics. More specifically, ISKO aims to * promote research, development and applications of knowledge organization systems that advance the philosophical, psychological and semantic approaches for ordering knowledge * provide the means of communication and networking on knowledge organization for its members * function as a connecting link between all institutions and national societies, working with problems related to the conceptual organization and processing of knowledge The Singapore Chapter was founded in 2015. In line with ISKO values we believe in open sharing of materials and resources from our events. Selected past events are posted on our LinkedIN page.