Category: information science

The ISKO-UK Conference (Glasgow, July 2023)

On August 15, 2023

Reading Time: 5 minutes

*The wonderful logo of ISKO, suggesting a Enlightenment masonic-like capturing of all knowledge in a harmonious whole*

Knowledge Organization! A mention of the subject leaves the average person scratching their heads. What exactly is it? In truth, attending a conference on …

Measuring Research: what everyone needs to know

By Michael Upshall

On April 11, 2022

In book reviews, information science, metrics

Reading Time: 6 minutes

Illustration by William Warby (Unsplash)

This short guide, in the “What Everyone Needs to Know” series from Oxford University Press, provides an outline of bibliometrics: measuring the impact and value of research. How to measure research is a topic that has …

Is a manual index worth doing?

By Michael Upshall

On September 18, 2021

In indexing, information science, scholarly publishing

Reading Time: 4 minutes

Note: I found Duncan’s book so fascinating that I subsequently wrote a much longer post about the book and the issues it raises.

That question is not exactly what Dennis Duncan has answered in his new book (Index, a history …

What became of Information Scientists?

By Michael Upshall

On July 27, 2021

In Content discovery, Events, information science

Reading Time: 4 minutes

I started fondly reminiscing (as one does) as I listened to Martin White and Sandra Ward last week at this year’s UKeiG’s annual conference, talking about their collaboration on a history of the Institution for Information Science (IIS), until I thought: …