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Information Storage and Retrieval

Notes Thus was born IASLIC. Prof. P.C. Mahalanobis , member of the Planning Commission and then
Director of Indian Statistical Institute, had all along been engaged in perspective planning. He sensed
the dependence of productivity of industries and of research in the country on prompt and pinpointed
documentation services. As early as 1956, he requested Prof. Ranganathan, who was then in Zurich
to come back to India and to establish a training school. But Prof. Ranganathan felt that the time
was not ripe enough.
DRTC is widely considered to be the best research centre in India in the fields of library science and
information science. It also has a very strong research program and a Ph.D collaboration with the
University of Trento, Italy.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
1. In 1947, its documentation (sectional) committee was formed with prof. ...... as chairman.
2. A proposal was made to union ministry of Education for the establishment
of a ...... .
3. The result was the establishment of Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre
(INSDOC) in ...... .
4. DRTC is widely considered to be the best research centre in India in the field of ...... and ...... .

3.2 International Society for Knowledge Organization
The International Society for Knowledge Organization (also referred to by its abbreviation ISKO) is
the principal professional association for scholars of knowledge organization, knowledge structures,
classification studies, and information organization and structure.

Founded in 1989, ISKO’s mission is “to advance conceptual work in knowledge organi-
zation in all kinds of forms, and for all kinds of purposes, such as databases, libraries,
dictionaries and the Internet.”
An interdisciplinary association, ISKO’s worldwide membership draws from fields such as
information science, philosophy, linguistics, library science, archive studies, science studies, and
computer science.
ISKO “promotes research, development and applications of knowledge organization systems that
advance the philosophical, psychological and semantic approaches for ordering knowledge; provides
the means of communication and networking on knowledge organization for its members; and
functions as a connecting link between all institutions and national societies, working with problems
related to the conceptual organization and processing of knowledge.”
The Society publishes the quarterly academic journal Knowledge Organization, and it holds an
international conference every two years. It officially recognizes national chapters in Brazil, Canada,
China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
ISKO cooperates with international and national organizations such as UNESCO, the European
Commission, the International Organization for Standardization, the International Federation of
Library Associations and Institutions, the American Society for Information Science and Technology,
the Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services, and the International Information Centre
for Terminology.

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