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Introduction to Knowledge Organization

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Coming to the end of the brilliant #ISKO2026 conference hosted by Brazilian colleagues in São Paulo. Thiago Barros (Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul) hands over the presidency of ISKO to Lu An (Wuhan University). Next biennial conference ISKO 2028 will be in Coimbra, Portugal.

#ISKO2026 Danielle do Carmo Pimenta Rioga talks about Epistemological and Practical Implications of Large-Scale Language Models for the Organization and Representation of Knowledge. LLMs based on what has been written, what has been asked and what has been answered.

#ISKO2026 Carla Beatriz advocates move towards dynamic and continuously evolving knowledge infrastructures found in living graphs.

#ISKO2026 Carla Beatriz talks about Adaptive Semantic Interoperability and Living Graphs: New Post-Static Paradigm Dynamics in Scientific Communication. Defines living graphs as including temporarily.

#ISKO2026 Gabriel Lopes Machado, and Arthur Matta present a thought-provoking paper on Ontologies: The Biggest Challenge for Large Language Models (LLMs). LLMs produce factually ungrounded outputs.

#ISKO2026 Maria Lígia Triques talks about 'The Brazilian Thesaurus for Representing Indigenous Artefacts: Critical Review'. She points out that it is important to include indigenous themselves in the revision to the thesaurus following CARE principles.

#ISKO2026 Maurício Coelho Silva talks about 'Accessibility and Thematic Representation of the Knowledge of Indigenous Peoples in Brazilian Digital Repositories'

#ISKO2026 Maria José da Costa Santos talks about Accessibility and Thematic Representation of the Knowledge of Indigenous Peoples in Brazilian Digital Repositories.

#ISKO2026 Carla Viola talks about 'Making Deliverable Auditable: faceted taxonomy for building information modelling in indigenous health infrastructure'.

#ISKO2026 Moulaison-Sandy suggests that human bring trustworthiness to the table. Librarians bring competence and sincerity to their work and this sets them apart from AI. Need to keep hold of trustworthiness.

#ISKO2026 Moulaison-Sandy explores the concept of authorship in the age of AI. Library of Congress insists that an author must be a person. But AI increasingly intervenes in the writing process.

#ISKO2026 Moulaison-Sandy describes the impact that Agent AI may have on information work. Worker's core skills will change. Constraints such as space limitations on catalog cards have led to innovations such as subject headings. AI constraints will have a similar effect.

#ISKO2026 Heather Moulaison-Sandy talks about Knowledge Organization under Constraint: equity, integrity and infrastructure in an AI era. Constraints can represent an opportunity, although it is not always easy to see.

Bei Yu speaks at #ISKO2026 about a literature review on AI- supported research ideation. She considers the role of AI in research and the potentials and problems of using AI. Suggests that AI is more useful in the early stages. Ideation is still a human focused activity.

AI knowledge and capability is essential for recruits to academic library staff. Quebao Wang speaks at #ISKO2026. E.g. using AI to augment item-level metadata. Transforming data archives into publicly-available resources. Creating the conditions for future knowledge production.

#ISKO2026 Xuebao Wang talks about from repository to knowledge engine. The changing role of libraries. Organise, contextualise and make relevant knowledge. Libraries becoming pro-active research engines.

#ISKO2026 Lu A talks about AI empowered Knowledge Organization research in uncertain research environments. Used data sources on natural disasters based on social media activity and official sources. Developed measures of quality of data analysis.

#ISKO2026 Structural and Symbolic Limits of Dublin Core for LGBTQIAPN+ Representation Laura de Andrade talks about responsive name ratification protocols, contextual relevance - visibility not to compromise safety, complimentary community-validated vocabularies

#ISKO2026 Significant differences between Web of Science and SCOPUS in the allocation of keywords to retrieved articles on LGBT+ and Knowledge Organization. SCOPUS descriptions considered more relevant to the LGBT+ community.

#ISKO2026 LGBT+ terminology is not a stable set of descriptors. Identity categories have positive and negative connotation. Important for recognition and visibility, but can also fix, reduce or fragment complex social experiences.

#SIKO2026 Terminological Visibility of LGBTQIAPN+ Themes in Knowledge Organization. Naming is power - affects visibility, search ability and recognition of marginalised identities. talk by Leandro Innocentini

How do members of marginalised communities interact with systems? Use the language people want to describe themselves. Avoid uncritical application of terms. When talking about deceased people. Chain of trust: public statements by the person, correspondence, partner at time of death, etc #ISKO2026

Critical cataloguing - B M Watson talks about involving marginalised communities about the description, cataloguing and indexing of works about their community. moving beyond solely experts imposing external views of communities. #ISKO2026

“Don’t Just Slap on Gay”: Validating and Developing Findings from the Largest Qualitative Interview and Community-Based Participatory Action Study of Queer Knowledge Workers B.M. Watson #ISKO2026

problem of interpreting the task by AI, which might be different from the intention of the original designers. D Grant Campbell speaks at #ISKO2026

D Grant Campbell talks about problem of very cursory and jargon-ridden documentation in AI systems. Tendency to refer to previous versions rather than explicitly stating their approach and policy. #ISKO2026

D Grant Campbell talks about three dimensions of description: embedded or separate metadata, internal or external authorship, high or low consistency. #ISKO2026

Model Cards: AI Regulation and the Renaissance of Structured Metadata D.Grant Campbell at #ISKO2026 The need for some kind of regulation is needed for AI, using model cards with metadata elements. Strong parallels with cataloguing standards such as AACR2, Dublin Core, etc.

Indexing Modelling from a Frame-Semantics Perspective: Challenges of Extraction and Interpretation by Artificial Intelligence. #ISKO2026 Juliana Oliveira Mauch and Rita Laipelt looking for a tool for extracting associative relationships from texts.