Nov 30
Planning a KM Portal: ISKO Singapore Workshop 27 November 2015
We held our inaugural workshop with ISKO Singapore last Friday on Planning a KM Portal led by myself – here are the the materials from the workshop, including slides, video and planning framework. For more about the workshop and ISKO Singapore, visit the ISKO Singapore website.
Here is the video:
Here are the slides:
ISKO-KM-Portal-workshop-nov2015b.pdf
Here is the planning framework:
Oct 27
UNICEF Knowledge Exchange Toolbox
The United Nations Children’s Fund has just released a set of tools and techniques for facilitating knowledge sharing, some of which have been written by very experienced facilitators. Check out their complete Toolbox.
Sep 23
Intranet Innovation Awards 2015
Step Two in Australia have just announced the winners of the 2015 Intranet Innovation Awards. The awards report gives detailed case studies of winning intranets, and as always illustrates designs and ideas that have a positive impact on the business. This year, you can get the full series of reports for the past nine years in a bundle for only $100 more than this year’s report. Check out the release here: http://www.steptwo.com.au/columntwo/winners-of-the-2015-intranet-innovation-awards/
Jul 28
IKO Post Conference Newsletter
We have published a post-conference newsletter for our IKO Conference attendees, containing a handy set of links to all the conference videos and supporting materials, additional articles from our speakers, and a link to an online competency framework for you to use in self development planning.
Jul 27
Innovations in Knowledge Organisation Conference: Follow Up Papers
Here are three follow up papers from our IKO Conference speakers, Ahren Lehnert on Finding the Value in Text Analytics, Marjorie Hlava & Bob Kasenchak on Smart Thesauri: Using Taxonomies with Linked Data and Matt Moore, on Building Competencies for Knowledge Organisation.
If you want to take the Knowledge Organisation Competencies survey, take it here! Leave your email address if you want to get the results (we won’t use your email for anything else). If you want to stay in touch on next year’s IKO Conference, drop your contact details here!
Jul 23
Research Fortnight Publishes Article on Taxonomy and Machine Classification
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
Jul 16
Rubbish Metadata
Metadata powers business intelligence. Patterns from metadata can be used to guide actions. Good metadata gives potential to good actions. Bad metadata is a waste of time. And when your customers have to navigate your rubbish metadata, you lose more than just business intelligence.
Jul 13
ISKO UK: Knowledge Organisation and Social Impact
Here is the presentation I made today at ISKO UK Conference in London (by pre-recorded video as I damaged my ankle and couldn’t travel to it) on the topic “From cataloguers to designers: Paul Otlet, social impact and a more proactive role for knowledge organisation professionals”
The slides are here, and the supporting paper is here – revised version 27 July 2015.
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Jun 24
IKO Conference Materials Online and Reflections on Conference Design
We have started posting the materials from the “Innovations in Knowledge Organisation” conference we organised last week. All the slides and notes are already posted, and we are now working our way through the videos. The video tutorials are posted already, the case studies will follow and then the keynotes.
We had great feedback on the interactive design of the conference, which you can pick up from the Conference Guide. There is nothing like leveraging the power of the participant knowledge and question-base to release knowledge sharing and show the power of KM. On that very topic, here’s a great post from Paul Corney on an Open Space Peer Assist he facilitated at the KM UK Conference the same week as IKO. What was particularly striking was the finding that only about 10% of his audience had actually used a Peer Assist in their organisations. Why is it so hard for KM professionals to practice what they preach?
Jun 12
IKO Conference - Conference Guide
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!
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”
