Scientific and Technical Advisory Council (STAC) |
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About STAC
In line with ISKO's mission, the Council is concerned with the scholarship, theory, principles, and applications of the pervasive subject of Knowledge Organization.
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As dealt with in
Information Studies, Philosophy, History, the Ontology community, Psychology and Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Computer Science (Data Modeling, AI, ML), Taxonomies (Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, Literary Genres, Museum Objects, etc.) and all kinds of data schemas and formats used in databases and the Web.
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Applied in, among others
- libraries, bibliographic information systems, publishing, the Web, archives, museums
- preserving and providing access to cultural heritage across domains and institutional contexts
- (digital) humanities, natural language understanding, education, instructional design
- process modelling, including business processes, production processes, etc.
- information systems, including health, finance, legal, government, etc.
Learn more about the Council's role in its terms of reference:
Members
Governance
- Chair Dagobert Soergel University of Maryland, USA
- Vice-Chair Gercina Lima Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Secretary John Beverley University at Buffalo, USA
Contact: stac@isko·org
Council Members
- Wiesław BabikJagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
- Carlo BianchiniUniversity of Pavia, Italy
- Julaine ClunisOld Dominion University, USA
- Claudio GnoliUniversity of Pavia, Italy
- Koraljka GolubLinnaeus University, Sweden
- Ágnes Hajdu-BarátEötvös Loránd University, Hungary
- Lala HajibayovaKent State University, USA
- Birger HjørlandUniversity of Copenhagen, DenmarkEx officio · encyclopedia editor-in-chief
- Junzhi JiaRenmin University of China
- Deborah LeeUniversity College London, UK
- Benildes Coura M.S. MaculanFederal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Daniel Martínez ÁvilaUniversity of León, Spain
- Widad Mustafa El-HadiUniversité Charles de Gaulle, France
- Catalina Naumis PeñaNational Autonomous University of Mexico
- Jian QinSyracuse University, USA
- Pauline RaffertyAberystwyth University, UK
- Rosa San SegundoCarlos III University of Madrid, Spain
- Negin Shokrzadeh HashtroudiShahid Beheshti University, Iran
- Sahbi SidhomUniversity of Lorraine, France
- Sayed Mahdi TaheriAllameh Tabataba'i University, Iran
- Natália Bolfarini TognoliFluminense Federal University, BrazilEx officio · journal editor-in-chief
- Douglas TudhopeUniversity of South Wales, UK
- Xiaoguang WangWuhan University, China
- Marcia Lei ZengKent State University, USA
- Maja ŽumerUniversity of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Working Groups
STAC is in the process of forming working groups, which will be open to experts inside and outside ISKO.
Working group
Working Group on Group Metadata. Innovative approaches in the new information landscape
The only fully productive group working under the STAC umbrella. It operates as two subgroups.
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Subgroup 1 Subject Access Metadata Guidelines for the effective use of subject metadata in discovery systems.
- Claudio Gnoli
- Koraljka Golub
- David Haynes (Chair)
- Athena Salaba
- Aida Slavic
- Maja Žumer
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Subgroup 2 Metadata across many types of information objects and many applications Takes a broad look at metadata as an important component of Knowledge Organization, across many types of information objects and many applications, with the aim of eventually producing a fundamental paper.
- Carlo Bianchini
- Junzhi Jia
- Marcia Lei Zeng
- Birger Hjørland
- Satyam Kumar
- Marcos Luiz Cavalcanti de Miranda
- Marjorie Hlava
- Ziyoung Park
- Bhakti Gala
- Ana Lúcia Terra
- Joseph Busch
- Peipei Zhu
- Carla Beatriz
- Lara Whitelaw
- Charlene King
- Amreen Taj
- Cristiana Bettella
Possible topics
The following is a list of possible topics that resulted from brainstorming among STAC members. Topics can be added. Interest expressed by STAC members and others will determine which working groups are formed.
- Annual Review of Knowledge Organization Project outline (PDF)
- Education in KO across disciplines information science, education, linguistics, computer science, medical informatics, and others Strong interest already
- KO for learning
- KO support for the movement for social justice
- KO support for sustainability
- KO support for crisis management
- KO support for dealing with misinformation on social media
- KO support for information and education on healthy behavior
- KO support for team science, especially interdisciplinary teams
- Semantic technologies in publishing, sharing and accessing KOSs
- Terminology shifts in KOSs and management of semantic shift over time
- KOS representation standards and KOS ontologies
- KO and subject access in information retrieval
- Information behavior in relation to KO
- KOS visualization and user interfaces
Past Governance – Scientific Advisory Council
Former chairs
- 2023–2024 Jonathan Furner
- 2020–2023 Dagobert Soergel
- 2010–2020 Birger Hjørland
- 2006–2010 Alexander Sigel
- Until 2006 Winfried Schmitz Esser
Former regular members
Since 2006.
- Thiago Barros
- Maria Teresa Biagetti
- Emilia Currás
- Thomas M. Dousa
- Melodie J. Fox
- Francisco Javier García Marco
- Winfried Gödert
- Rebecca Green
- Hemalata Iyer
- Edward N. Jacob
- Michael Kleineberg
- Fulvio Mazzocchi
- Joan Mitchell
- Koti S. Raghavan
- Otto Sechser
- Eduard Sukiasyan
- Kim H. Veltman
- Karsten Weber
- Yejun Wu