International Society for Knowledge Organization 2008 conference
Amanda Hill reports on ISKO 2008 here. It was the first I had heard of the Names Project, which I see I will have to follow, given these comments:
The questions at the end of my talk included one from a librarian who took exception to the Names project’s aim of not having a preferred form of name for individuals. I had thought that this would be more acceptable now than it had been in the past – it’s a distinction between authority control and access control that has been fairly widely discussed in the library literature, but apparently it is still controversial. Interesting!
