On February 26, Professor Rick Szostak, President of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), officially announced that the 18th ISKO Conference in 2024 would be hosted by the School of Information Management, Wuhan University, China.

In recent years, our school has published more than 150 papers related with knowledge organization in authoritative and core journals at home and abroad, which is the Chinese university with the largest number of papers published in ISKO journal Knowledge Organization. Many teachers in our school are ISKO members, among whom Professor Lu An serves as ISKO Director. Considering our school's great contribution to the field of knowledge organization, deep understanding of ISKO Conference and rich experience in holding top international academic conferences, ISKO decided to hand over the right to hold ISKO Conference in 2024 to our school. This will be the first time that ISKO Conference in China.

ISKO was founded in 1989, and is committed to promoting the research, development and application of knowledge organization system, and promoting the exchanges and cooperation among members about knowledge organizations. As interdisciplinary society, ISKO brings together scholars and researchers from more than 20 countries in the fields of information science, computer science, linguistics, philosophy and medical informatics, etc., and has high international influence in the fields of library and information science, etc. ISKO Conference is the top international academic conference in the field of knowledge organization, which is held every two years.

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