Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Widad Mustafa El Hadi is Professor at the University of Lille 3, in Iinformation and Documentation Studies, department where she is in charge of International Relations, Master Diploma both professional and research tracks. She is a member of Geriico http://geriico.recherche.univ-lille3.fr/index.php?page=cv-widad-mustafa-el-hadi. Her main areas of interest are: theoretical approaches to knowledge organization; language & culture and their impact on knowledge organization; knowledge organization systems and their evaluation; cross-language and cross-cultural information retrieval and more recently Digital Humanities. She has been active in ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization http://www.isko-france.asso.fr/home/ since 1996 as co-founder with Jacques Maniez of the French ISKO Chapter and as the first elected ISKO-France president (1996-2001). She organized the Fifth Intentional ISKO Conference in Lille (1998) and the Eighth ISKO-France Conference in Lille (2011). She publishes regularly on knowledge organization, digital cultures & digital humanities. She supervised many doctoral theses in terminology and its role in information mediation; library and information science; information literacy; archiving and knowledge organization systems.