The International Society for Knowledge Organization are a not-for-profit scientific/professional association dedicated to promoting the theory and practice of organizing knowledge and information. One of their objectives is to “encourage and support the next generation of Knowledge Organization (KO) researchers and practitioners, with attention to continuing professional development as well as basic education and training”.

The ISKO are offering students a grant of up to £500 for their research project related to Knowledge Organisation. This includes students who are in the planning or initial stages of their dissertation and need funding to help you with their research. This research could include (but is not limited to):

Linked open data
Cataloguing
Classification
Authority files
Thesauri
Metadata
Ontologies
Taxonomies,
Information architecture

For further details please visit:

http://www.iskouk.org/content/isko-uk-grants-students