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I’m just back in the Netherlands after a week in India for the 12th International ISKO Conference “Categories, Relations and Contexts in Knowledge Organization, University of Mysore, 6-9 August 2012.”
To say it was an exciting event is the understatement of the century in KO. We had four jam-packed days of contributed papers, invited sponsored lectures, Indian dance, Indian food, and Indian culture.
The opening ceremony was the most elaborate I’ve ever seen, with the lighting of the torch of knowledge: 
a choir to sing the anthem of the university, and the launching of IOrg’s new book Cultural Frames of Knowledge, 
, which was presented in a package of golden paper, unwrapped on the dais by Prof. Naik (a noted physicist) and the president of the university. 
I gave the keynote 
really, I did 
. So there. The text (except the last bit) is in the proceedings.
Appalling was the near total absence of North Americans and western Europeans. There were about 6 Americans, 2 Canadians, a couple of French and Germans. There were a host of Brazilians, who turned out in force. Even more appalling was the number of papers from North Americans who did not show up but had them read by people who did.
I’ve lots more to say, of more substance, in future posts. This is the official “whistle whetter.”