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The call for participation (CFP) for the Recent NKOS Research Special Issue of TEL (The Electronic Library) has been posted at https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/recent-networked-knowledge-organization-systemsservicesstructures-nkos-research. The deadline is May 1, 2023, but submissions may be made from January-May at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tel. On the submission page, please select “Recent Knowledge Organization Systems/Services/Structures (NKOS) Research” as the issue you are submitting to.

The 2022 NKOS Workshop will be held as part of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications on October 6-7 from 9-1 PDT at the University of Washington in Seattle. Participation can be in person or virtual. Registration will be free. The NKOS Workshop is seeking submissions for presentations and demonstrations related to Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) themes and topics listed in the Call for Participation (CFP). The submission deadline is Friday, June 17, 2022.

Joseph Busch is co-guest editor with Joseph Tennis of Special Issue of Knowledge Organization: Best Papers from NKOS Consolidated Workshop 2020 Part 1 48:3 Knowledge Organization (2021) and Part 2 48:4 Knowledge Organization (2021).

Download Taxonomy Strategies 2021 holiday card. Canoers on Lake Armington, Piermont, NH. Photo by Joseph Busch (September 9, 2021). See all Taxonomy Strategies holiday cards at our Facebook site.

Joseph Busch is co-guest editor with Douglas Tudhope of Special Issue of Journal of Data and Information Science (JDIS) on NKOS (April 2020) Volume 5: Issue 1.

Joseph Busch speaks about what it means to help associations “organize their stuff” in the Fall 2019 Issue of Associations Now.

Photos are in a post on our Facebook page.

Watch a short video demonstration of the initial offering.

Hear Joseph Busch discuss Artificial Intelligence at the Amsterdam Public Library Vogin IP conference.

Read Joseph Busch’s Foreword to the Second edition of The Accidental Taxonomist by Heather Hedden.

Play Straits Knowledge podcast “Taxonomy Development Process Case Studies” with Joseph Busch (Taxonomy Strategies’ Founder) presenting case studies that illustrate different taxonomy development methods.

Read The Semantic Puzzle blog post “American Physical Society Taxonomy – Case Study” about Taxonomy Strategies’ work to develop a new faceted classification scheme.

• Intro
• Business and IA
• Taxonomy (Controlled Vocabulary)
• Taxonomy Usability

For more information contact bob@metatorial.com.

Play Podcast in which Lisa Welchman (a leading expert on digital governance) and Joseph Busch define the terms “taxonomy” and “metadata”, and provide advice on advancing taxonomy efforts in your organization.

Read about Busch’s golden law of facets, named for Joseph Busch (Taxonomy Strategies’ Founder), described in Steve Papas’ article “The Faceted Navigation and Search Revolution” originally published in KM World (April 2006).