Fundada em 1989, a International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) é a principal sociedade científica na área de Organização do Conhecimento.
A ISKO possui um escopo amplo e interdisciplinar. Desta forma reúne profissionais de diferentes áreas do mundo todo, tais como os campos da Ciência da Informação, Filosofia, Linguística, Ciência da Computação, bem como domínios específicos como, por exemplo, a Informática Médica.
Sua missão é incentivar o desenvolvimento de trabalhos conceituais sobre a Organização do Conhecimento em todas as suas formas, para qualquer propósito, como por exemplo, banco de dados, bibliotecas, dicionários e Internet.
Aqui encontramos seus capítulos, conforme informado no Encontro Anual de 2023 (Annual Meeting 2023).
Brasil
- president: Rita do Carmo Ferreira Laipelt (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre)
- vice-president: Célia da Consolação Dias (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte)
- secretary: Luciana De Souza Gracioso (Federal University of São Carlos)
- treasurer: Rene Faustino Gabriel Junior (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre)
- email: iskobrazil@gmail.com
- website: isko.org.br
- events
Previous president: José Augusto Guimarães (2009-2011), Vera Dodebei (2012-2015), José Augusto Chaves Guimarães (2016-2017), Thiago Henrique Bragato Barros (2018-2019), Natália Bolfarini Tognoli (2020-2023)
Canada + Estados Unidos
- president: D. Grant Campbell (University of Western Ontario)
- treasurers: Vanessa Schlais (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) & Thomas M. Dousa (University of Chicago)
- program officer: Carlin Soos (UCLA)
- Web content manager: Hilary Thorsen (Stanford University Library)
- email: contact@iskocus.org
- website: http://iskocus.org
- student section at University of British Columbia: iskoubc.wordpress.com/
- online payment of membership fees: iskocus.org/membership.html
- events
Previous presidents: Kathryn La Barre (2009-2013), Hur-li Lee (2013-2017), Laura Ridenour (2017-2019), Heather Moulaison Sandy (2019-2021), Brian Dobreski (2021-2023).
China, People's Republic
- chair: Shujin Cao (Sun Yat-Sen University)
- vice-chair: Qing Fang (Whuhan University)
- contact person: Yijin Chen
- email: iskocn@163.com
- website: www.iskocn.net
- events
Previous contact persons: Dongmei Bao and Wei Fan (-2019)
France
- president: Omar Larouk (ENSSIB)
- email: admin@isko-france.asso.fr
- website: www.isko-france.asso.fr/
- events
Previous presidents: Widad Mustafa El Hadi (1996-2001), Jean-Paul Metzger (2001-2005), Stéphane Chaudiron (2005-2009), Fidelia Ibekwe-San Juan (2009-2011), Amos David (2011-2015), Widad Mustafa El Hadi (2015-2023)
Germany + Austria + Switzerland
- chair: Ernesto De Luca (Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig)
- vice-chair: Ivo Keller (Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences)
- treasurer: Lena-Luise Stahn (Free University of Berlin)
- co-opted: Christian Wartena, Peter Ohly
- email: deluca@gei.de
- website: www.isko-de.org/
- events
Previous chairs: Peter Ohly (1998-2009), Karsten Weber (2009-2013), Christian Wartena (2013-2019)
India
- president: K. S. Raghavan (PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore)
- secretary/contact person: Biswanath Dutta (DRTC, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore)
- email: ksragav@hotmail.com
Iran
- chairperson: Rahmatollah Fattahi (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad)
- vice-chair: Mortaza Kokabi (Shadid Chamran University)
- secretary: Ebrahim Emrani (Iranian Research Institute for Information and Technology)
- program Officer: Mahdi Taheri (Islamic Culture and Science Academy)
- treasurer: Abdolrasooul Khosravi (Khalij Fars University)
- website: www.iskoiran.org
Italy
- secretariat: Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia), Luca Giusti (Liguria Digitale)
- events: Claudio Gnoli (University of Pavia)
- email: segreteria@iskoi.org
- website: www.iskoi.org
- events
Previous contact person: Giliola Negrini (1990s-2003)
Low Countries (Belgium, Netherland and Luxembourg)
- chair: Steven Laporte (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
- vice chair: Sadia Vancauwenbergh (Hasselt University, Belgium)
- secretary: Ronald Siebes (Data Archiving and Network Services - DANS KNAW, Netherlands)
- treasurer: Gerard Coen (Data Archiving and Network Services - DANS KNAW, Netherlands)
- email: chair@isko-lc.org, info@isko-lc.org
- website: http://www.isko-lc.org
- events
Maghreb
- chairperson: Sahbi Sidhom (University of Lorraine & LORIA Lab., France)
- vice-president (Tunisia): Amira Kaddour (ENSTAB University of Carthage, Tunisia)
- vice-president (Algeria): Abdelkrim Meziane (CERIST, Algeria)
- vice-president (Morocco): Anass el Haddadi (ENSA Al-Hoceima, Morocco)
- vice-president (Libya): Nasar Aldian Shashoa (Libyan Academy Tripoli, Libya)
- vice-president (Lebanon): Fouad Zmokhol (Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth, Liban)
- secretary & treasurer: Sahbi Sidhom (by interim)
- email: sahbi.sidhom@loria.fr
- website: www.isko-maghreb.org
- events
Previous chairperson: Slah Hellara (2010-2011).
Poland
- president: Wiesław Babik (Jagiellonian University, Cracow)
- treasurer: Katarzyna Materska (University of Warsaw)
- email: w.babik@uj.edu.pl
- website: skryba.inib.uj.edu.pl/isko/
- events
Singapore
- president: Eileen Tan
- vice president: Azlinayati Manaf
- treasurer: Mark Garlinghouse
- secretary: Shaharudin Mohd Ishak
- contact: Patrick Lambe
- email: president@iskosg.org, secretary@iskosg.org
- website: www.iskosg.org
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Previous presidents: Patrick Lambe (2015-2019), Mark Garlinghouse (2019-2021).
Spain+Portugal
- president: Ana Lúcia Terra (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
- vice president: Carmen Agustín Lacruz (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
- secretary: Carlos Guardado da Silva (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
- treasurer: María Olivera Zaldua (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
- email: anaterra@fl.uc.pt
- website: www.iskoiberico.org
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Previous presidents: Emilia Currás, María López-Huertas, Rosa San Segundo Manuel (-2015), Isidoro Gil Leiva (2015-2019).
United Kingdom
- chair: Sylvie Davies
- vice chair: Aida Slavic (UDC Consortium, The Hague)
- secretary: Tanja Svarre (Aalborg University, Denmark)
- treasurer: Duncan McKay
- email: chair@iskouk.org, secretary@iskouk.org, treasurer@iskouk.org
- website: www.iskouk.org/
- events
Previous chairpersons: Vanda Broughton (-2011), Stella Dextre Clarke (2011-2015), Judi Vernau (2015-2017), David Haynes (2017-2021).
West Africa
- president: Victor Odumuyiwa (University of Lagos, Nigeria)
- vice-president: Emmanuel Dada (University of Jos, Nigeria)
- secretary: Fleur Nadine Ndjock (University of Yaoundé 2, Cameroon)
- treasurer: Chika Yinka-Banjo (University of Lagos, Nigeria)
- email: vodumuyiwa@unilag.edu.ng, educatice77@gmail.com, chikagog@gmail.com
- website: iskowa.org/home
Previous presidents: Olufade Williams Onifade (2017-2019).
other local contacts
- Australia: Matt Moore
- Hungary: Ágnes Hajdu Barát
- Georgia: Irakli Garibashvili
- Northern Europe: Birger Hjørland
- Russia: Andrei I. Kapterev
- Slovakia: Jela Steinerova
Interested people and members from other countries should directly refer to the international Secretariat
*Fonte: http://www.isko.org/chapters.html