Eighth International ISKO Conference.

This article provides information on the International Society for Knowledge Organization's (ISKO) 8th International ISKO Conference to be held July 13-16, 2004 in London, England. The conference will be hosted by the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at University College London. The Theme of the Conference is: Knowledge Organization and the Global Information Society. The keynote address will be delivered by Clifford Lynch, executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information. Papers addressing the following themes have been selected: global users and uses of knowledge organization; theories of knowledge and knowledge organization:feasibility of universal solutions; linguistic and cultural approaches to knowledge organization: cross-cultural, cross-language and multilingual information retrieval; information policies, management, interoperability and maintenance of information systems; knowledge organization in corporate information systems; applications of artificial intelligence and knowledge representation; knowledge organization of universal and special systems; and, knowledge organization of non-print information: sound, image, multimedia. Vanda Broughton serves as chairman of the conference.