post-truth: Developing a knowledge organisation response
In 2016 the Oxford English Dictionary chose ‘post-truth’ as word of the year. Their decision was based on the proliferation of fake news stories and misinformation that accompanied both the US national election and the British EU referendum. On Earth Day in April 2017 thousands of people gathered in London for a March for Science, protesting the negative impact of post-truth culture and politics on science, research and education. How can the Knowledge Organization community engage with and respond to these issues?
In January 2018, St. George’s House, Windsor Castle, held a consultation to consider the impact of fake news and post-truth on democracy, and specifically to explore the impact of search and social media technologies. Participants at the consultation came from diverse backgrounds with expertise in web standards and technology, business and media, democracy and civil society, government, and library and information science.
In this session, Dave Clarke will summarize the proceedings and calls to action, and outline how ISKO members can get involved. He will describe the problem space and comment on the issues from the perspective of knowledge organisation and information science. The session will conclude with audience participation, including a discussion about how the KO community can get involved and contribute ideas for solutions.
In January 2018, St. George’s House, Windsor Castle, held a consultation to consider the impact of fake news and post-truth on democracy, and specifically to explore the impact of search and social media technologies. Participants at the consultation came from diverse backgrounds with expertise in web standards and technology, business and media, democracy and civil society, government, and library and information science.
In this session, Dave Clarke will summarize the proceedings and calls to action, and outline how ISKO members can get involved. He will describe the problem space and comment on the issues from the perspective of knowledge organisation and information science. The session will conclude with audience participation, including a discussion about how the KO community can get involved and contribute ideas for solutions.
About our Speaker
David Clarke is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London, and a Leadership Fellow at St. George’s House, Windsor Castle. He is co-founder and CEO of the Synaptica® group of companies, providers of enterprise software solutions for knowledge organization and discovery. He served on the authoring committee of the 2005 version of the US national standard for controlled vocabularies, ANSI/NISO Z39.19. David leads research and development at Synaptica, including software solutions for taxonomy and ontology management, text analytics and auto-categorization, image annotation and indexing, and Linked Data management. He is involved in educational outreach programs including LD4PE, the Linked Data for Professional Education initiative of DCMI. Synaptica software solutions have attracted numerous international awards including: Knowledge Management World magazine’s 100 Companies that Matter in KM and Trend Setting Product of the Year (multiple awards between 2011 and 2017). In 2016 Clarke was awarded the Knowledge Management Leadership Award by the Global Knowledge Management Congress. |
Date/Time
Venue Type of Event |
Friday 01 June 2018, 4pm-5.30pm.
Room 202 (2nd floor) The British Council 30 Napier Road Singapore 258509 (nearest car parking at Tanglin Mall) Case Discussion | Networking | Panel | Site Visit | Talk & Discussion | Workshop * |
SESSION MATERIALS
Here is a comprehensive set of slides from which Dave Clarke drew for his talk. They also contain links to further resources. Download here.
Here is a text version of Dave's talk, delivered in Wales in April 2018, with comprehensive references and links at the end. Download here.
Here is the video of the main portion of Dave Clarke's talk.
Here is a text version of Dave's talk, delivered in Wales in April 2018, with comprehensive references and links at the end. Download here.
Here is the video of the main portion of Dave Clarke's talk.
RESPONSE FROM MATT MOORE
Here's a fascinating critical response from Matt Moore, made in March 2019.
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