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Claudio Gnoli @gnoli.eu · 10/09/2026

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Introduction to Knowledge Organization

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#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.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#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.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#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.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#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.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

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

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

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

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

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

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#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.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#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.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#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.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#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.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#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.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#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.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#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

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#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.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#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.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#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

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“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

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

When “Used For” Is Not Equivalent by Kempf, Hajra and Potoczki at #ISKO2026. They maintain that a different approach to traditional thesaurus relations is needed. LLMs have a role in this using a cascade ensemble evaluation to provide a confidence score to decide when human intervention is needed.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

AI-Assisted Reading vs. Traditional Screen Reading - paper by Yue Gong, Jibin Zhang and Xiaoguang Wang at #ISKO2026 highlights the tension between exploration and efficient retrieval.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Came across the concept of 'Counter-archiving' - looking beyond traditional, institutional, colonial approaches to archiving. Questioning the logic of existing archives. #ISKO2026

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Diversity of Approaches to Knowledge Organization in Times of Technological Uncertainty - round table at #ISKO2026 What impact will generative LLMs have on information retrieval, libraries, the world of work?

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Widad El Hadi examines KO ethics through the epistemology of violence. AI-driven KOSs inherit colonial and exclusionary legacies. These biases persist in contemporary AI systems. #ISKO2026

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Widad Mustafa El Hadi at #ISKO2026 focuses on the problem of bias in AI systems. Possibly the same considerations apply to human-generated KO systems. Refers to Olson's 'power to name'. Naming is never neutral, but an act of authority.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Widad Mustafa El Hadi at #ISKO2026 puts forward a vision of dismantling intellectual hierarchies and affirm the legitimacy of all communities as knowledge organisers. It is not sufficient to mitigate existing biases.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Looking back, going forward: ethics in knowledge organization through the lens of epistemologies or violence. Keynote speaker Widad Mustafa El Hadi (Lille University). Knowledge Organization now perceived as politically and culturally charged. #ISKO2026

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Delighted to be in São Paulo for the #ISKO2026 19th international conference, Transforming Knowledge Organization: critical approaches to Epistemological, Technological, and Cultural Change

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It's been a pleasure to work with @gnoli.eu Koraljka Golub, Athena Salaba and Aida Slavic on the survey on the use of subject metadata.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Thanks to Aida Slavic and #ISKOUK for organising a brilliant biennial conference on 'Knowledge Organization in the Age of AI'

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Maybe we cannot 'solve' the problem of different representations of communities. It is more of a process (e.g. by participatory governance). Otherwise we could be guilty of erasure of other experience. It is difficult and could be uncomfortable. Joseph Busch at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Terminology is used in specific context. Participatory governance - include the communities that are being described by those systems - to more fairly represent communities. Julaine Clunis at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Joane Casenave, Widad M El Hadi, and Thibault Grison from the University of Lille (France)  are doing a joint presentation on 'Artificial intelligence, KO and information mediation on the Web: from ethical dimensions to social responsibility' at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Good to see a typology of explainable AI (XAI) methods used for analysing KOSs in Julaine Clunis' paper at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Very interested to hear about Biases in KOSs in Julaine Clunis' talk at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference. This is a real problem when it comes to algorithmic bias.

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Need a formal evaluation of 2dseach rather than the error checking and anecdotal evaluations - according to Tony Russell-Rose at #ISKOUK 2025 Conference

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David Haynes @jdavidhaynes.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Refinement of searches through exploration built into the LEGO model described by Tony Russell-Rose at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference.

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