Future Events

2023 North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO 2023)

June 15-16, 2023

The ninth North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization, sponsored by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will be held online with the theme Who Are We?: Reflecting, Shaping, and Challenging Identity Through Knowledge Organization.

Past Events

2021 North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO 2021)

July 9-11, 2021

The eight North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization will be held at the University of Washington iSchool, Seattle, Washington, USA with the theme Resilience, Resistance, and Reflection: Knowledge Organization at a Crossroads.


2019 North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO 2019)

June 13-14, 2019

The seventh North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization was held at the Metadata Research Center, College of Computing & Informatics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA with the theme Knowledge Organization: Community and Computation.


2017 North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO 2017)

June 15-16, 2017

The sixth North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization was held at the iSchool at Illinois, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA with the theme Visualizing Knowledge Organization: Bringing Focus to Abstract Realities.

View the symposium's programs and papers here.


2015 North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO 2015)

June 18-19, 2015

The fifth North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization was held at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA with the theme Producing Knowledge Organization.

View the symposium's programs and papers here.


2013 North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO 2013)

June 13-14, 2013

The fourth North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization was held at the Continuing Education Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA with the theme Transition Cultures, Transition KO: Evolving Exploration, Critical Reflection, and Practical Work.

View the symposium's program and papers here.


2011 North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO 2011)

June 16-17, 2011

The third North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization was held at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario Canda with the theme Expanding Our Horizons, Evaluating Our Parameters here.


2009 North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO 2009)

June 18-19, 2009

The second North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization was held June 18-19, at Syracuse University School of Information Studies with the theme Pioneering North American Contributions to Knowledge Organization.

View the symposium's program and paper abstracts here.


2007 North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization (NASKO 2007)

June 14-15, 2007

The first North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization was held June 14-15, at University of Toronto's Faculty of Information with the theme KO, Classification Systems, and Controlled Vocabularies Adjust to New Technologies and Service Areas-- What are YOU Doing?

View the symposium's program with abstracts and full papers here.