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ISKO News 34

Edited by Clare Beghtol

Sixth International ISKO Conference Theoretical and Formal Aspects of Indexing; Indexing and its Content; and Indexing and Users Studies. Pa­ The 6th International ISKO Conference will be pers will be in French or English. Further informa­ held at the Faculty of Information Studies, University tion is available by email from [email protected] or at of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, on July 10·13, http://enssibhp,enssib .frlEnssi blactu/isk0 99, 2000, The general theme of the Conference is Dyna­ mism and Stability in Knowledge Organization, and paper proposals on specific themes arc invited. The specific themes are: Cognitive and Linguistic Founda* Formation of Czech ISKO Chapter (ISKO-CZ) tions; Theories of Knowledge and Knowledge Or­ ganization; Information Policies and Management of A new ISKO Chapter in the Czech Republic is in Knowledge Structuresj Global Users and Uses of the process of being formed, The Preparatory Board Knowledge and Knowledge Organization; and New of ISKO-CZ met in Prague in June, 1999 to draft its Information Technologies for Knowledge Organiza­ mission and statues. The Chapter plans to convene at tion, The full Call for Papers appears in this issue of least one conference a year and possibly other meet­ Knowledge Organization. Please address enquiries to ings. More detailed information can be obtained from [email protected],ca. Josef Schwarz, Protestant Theological Faculty of Charles University, email [email protected].

Sixth National German Workshop IN MEMORIAM: Eric de GROUER The German Chapter of ISKO will host its 6th National Workshop, entitled Globalization and Eric de Grolier passed away on February 21, 1998, Knowledge Organization, on September 23-25, 1999, at the age of 86, and his brilliant and deep insights The Workshop, which contains a strong program of will be sadly missed in our field, His and 50 papers, will take place at the Fachhochshule in publications on classification problems have covered Hamburg, More information and the full Workshop most of this century, since he first published at program for each day can be found at twenty and carried on up to his last years. Summariz­ http://www.bonn.iz-soz.de/wiss-org/HHprog.htm ing his contribution to a better understanding of and a poster is also available at http://www.bonn.iz­ knowledge organization is a difficult task, in that he soz,de/wiss-org/HHplakatOH,ppt, explored so many scientific domains (classification Please direct other enquiries to the convenor, H. Pe­ science itself, of course, but also linguistics, semantics, ter Ohly, at oh@bonn,iz-soz,de, sociology, ) and had such varied social ac­ tivities (an advocate for popular reading, book seller, librarian, translator, terminologist, teacher, re­ searcher, expert in classification schemes and in in­ Second ISKO- Conference formation management!), It seems that the hallmarks of this outstanding intellectual were an encyclopaedic Indexing in the Age of the Internet will be held in curiosity and a powerful synthetic mind, the very Lyon on October 21-22, 1999, This interdisciplinary qualities of his self-professed intellectual guide: Did­ Conference is sponsored by ISKO-France, ENSSIB erot, the philosopher of the Enlightenment, and ERSICO-Universite Jean Moulin Lyon 3, and As a researcher in the field of classification, he specific topics include Metadata; Traditional Indexing authored a number of publications, among which was and Classification Tools; Multimedia and Hyperme­ the well-known 'Study of General Categories Appli­ dia Documents; Natural Language Processing; Index­ cable to Classification and Coding in Documentation' ing and Multilingual Information Retrieval; Indexing (1962), He was also recognized as a respected expert and Image Retrieval; Pattern Recognition Techniques; Know!. Org. 26(1999)No.l 51 ISKO News 34

in the international organizations which asked him Nacke, Wagner had become the Editor of the journal for reports and advice (Unesco, FID, IFLA). Unfor­ Methods of Information in Medicine (also founded by tunately, his prospective views on the necessary de­ Nacke), and still is active for it, Other speakers men� velopment of as a new field of tioned Nacke's activities as director of the Bielefeld and research did not receive the support Institute for Social Medicine and his interest in organiz� they deserved in his own country, although he did re­ ing relevant conferences, such as one on UDC devel� ceive an �ward from the French National Center for opment ("Experts meet Experts", 1975), since he had Scientific Research. chaired the UDC Committee 61 Medicine, and an� Eric de Grolier enjoyed teaching. He taught other one on "Documentation and Mathematics", courses in several Colleges or Universities in France, Prof. Nacke was also a member of the German Society Morocco, Canada, the USA, and many of his former for Classification and contributed in a lively way to its students still remember the brilliant and humorous development until ISKO was founded. style of his lectures. After his retirement Prof. Nacke devoted himself When Ingetraut Dahlberg decided to create to studies in science-theoretical topics in medicine and 'Knowledge Organization' as a new international so­ became a member of the Board of Editors of the rele­ ciety, she naturally asked him to become a member vant journal which Derek de 5011a Price had and consulting editor, which he accepted in an enthu� founded, Thereafter, on the basis of insights he got siastic letter, One year later, he participated in the from establishing a major bibliography on "Error­ first ISKO conference in (1990) both as a research in medicine" some 30 years ago, his inventive speaker and as a summarizer - a task at which he ex� spirit detected a new field of interest, In his own, es­ celled. On his 80" birthday, in June 1991, Ingetraut sentially academic lecture on the occasion of this Dahlberg kindly devoted a special issue of Interna­ birthday invitation, he defined, explained and de­ tional Classification to him, in order - she then wrote scribed this new field, which he had named "Veritol­ - "to honor him ... for all his 'fighting' for the recog­ ogy and Error Researcb", He showed to the quite as­ nition and future of knowledge organization tonished audience what he had developed in the past throughout the past 60 years". seven years concerning the contents and structure of Eric de Grolier, many of whose wfltmgs were the "Science of Truth - Veritology". And he was ab­ never published, has bequeathed his archives to the solutely up-to-date in demonstrating the use of his French National Higher School of Librarianship lap-top to bring his findings onto a large screen, He (ENSSIB). Let us hope that young researchers will surprised in this way not only his old and young study them extensively and prolong the influence of friends but also his relatives, his children and grand­ his vigorous and fruitful insights, children. ISKO can really be proud of its very first member, Let us hope and wish that his great desire, to Jacques Maniez 61 rue de la Corvee F-21000 DIJON organize an international conference on this topic and Phone (033)03 80 41 35 40 to establish n Veritology and Error Researcb" as an E�mail: [email protected] autonomous field of science in the universities, may come true - possibly still in his lifetime!

Ingetraut Dahlberg, Am Hirtenberg 13, ISKO Member No.1 D-64732 Bad Konig, Phone/Fax + +49-(0)6063-913857 Prof.Dr.med.Otto Nacke was the first to join ISKO after its foundation on July 22, 1989, ten years ago. Recently, on May 18, 1999, he decided to cele­ brate his 84'h birthday by inviting his colleagues, IN MEMORlAM: Julius 5hrejder friends and relatives to his home in Bad Salzuflen near Bielefeld for an additional reason: 50 years ago he On August 24, 1998, Juli Shrejder, one of the first founded, together with six other medical doctors, a two Russian ISKO members passed away, In the Committee for Medical Documentation and Statistics 1960s I became "acquainted" with him by document­ within the German Documentation Society, A few ing his relevant articles for the German periodical years later this Committee became a society of its Nacbricbten ffir Dokumentation from the Russian own that has about 2000 members now. Prof. Gustav NTI, and in 1974 I was pleased to sit next to him at a Wagner (82), the only one still living of these six oth­ conference in the large office of Prof. Michailov from ers, was the first speaker and gave an account of the VINITI. When, later on, scanning the Referativnyi founding and the development of this society. After Zhllmal for the bibliography in International Classifi­ cation and reading the excellent abstracts he had writ- 52 Know!. Org. 26(1999)No.1 ISKO News 34

ten, I was always surprised how adequately he related the contents aC e.g.) the articles in the AI-field. In 1991, the German ISKO Chapter invited him to pres­ ent his ideas at their 2nd conference. At that time he also wrote for our journal the book review on the UAI volumes World Problems and Human Potential. In my opinion, his major contribution to our field was his insight into the meronomical structure of knowledge which I described in my paper at the Al­ bany classification conference, Noy.1988, Juli Shrejder was born on Oct. 28, 1927, in Dne­ propetrovsk. He became a mathematician and gradu­ ated from Moscow State University with a PhD in numerical analysis. By 1962 he had already published two monographs about the Monte-Carlo method. From 1961-1989, he worked at VINITI, conducted re­ search in the field of informatics, mathematical lin­ guistics and theory of semantic information. Around 1970 he converted to the and subse­ quently lost his position as head of VINITI's Semiotic Department. Nevertheless, he began to publish theo­ logical articles, which was illegal in those years in . In 1981 he got a degree as Doctor of Science in Philosophy, the highest academic degree in Russia. From 1989 until his death he worked in the Labora­ tory of Consciousness Problems in the Institute for In· formation Transmission Problems of the Russian Acad� emy of Sciences, and was also the chair of the section Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Natural Science. In addition, he became a full Professor of the Catholic St. Thomas 17Je%gical College in Moscow, where he taught Logic and Epistemology, Ethics and Social Doctrine of the Church, and also of the Or­ thodox SI. Andrew Bible 17Je%gicai College in Mos­ cow. He also lectured in the Vatican and Rome (1991 and 1992), in (1993), and in Belgium (1995). In 1989, Juli Shrejder founded the Catholic Spiritual Dialogue Club in Moscow and remained its chair un� til his death. Also he was a member of several boards and two editorial boards. Although always extremely busy, he came to our Russian ISKO Chapter Confer� ence in 1993 and we also met with him during the second Russian ISKO Conference in 1995. Together with his wife, Tatjana Wentzel, docent at Moscow State University, whom Juli married in 1958, and his two children Sergej (1960) and Maria (1968), we feel we have lost a really wonderful friend and a brill ant colleague, but we are also grateful for all that he was able to give to us and to this our world!

Ingetraut Dahlberg, Am Hirtenberg 13, D-64732 Bad Konig, Phone/Fax + +49-(0)6063-913857