CALL FOR PAPERS
Special issue of the peer-reviewed Web journal
"Journal of Digital Information" (JoDI,
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/) on the theme of
NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS.
This special issue of JoDI is intended to complement and further
the aims of the workshop on "Networked Knowledge Organization
Systems (NKOS): European initiatives and projects / options for
global co-operation" at ECDL2000, the European Conference on
Digital Libraries in Lisbon, Portugal, 20 September 2000
<http://www.bn.pt/org/agenda/ecdl2000/>
Further information about the workshop follows at the end of this
message.
The scope of the special issue matches the scope of the ECDL2000
NKOS workshop, but extended to a global view rather than focusing
on European projects and developments. For more details, see the
topics for workshop presentations below.
The Journal of Digital Information (JODI, ISSN: 1368-7506) is
a peer-reviewed electronic-only journal
* about the management, presentation and uses of information in
digital environments
* covering research, technical, design and practical issues.
JoDI aims at high quality and intends to make the most of the medium's
capabilities.
The journal applies a non-exclusive publication model and is committed
to archiving.
Papers are normally published individually as soon as they are
positively reviewed and ready.
JoDI is based at the Department of Information Science at
Loughborough University (Cliff McKnight, Editor in Chief) in
cooperation with Southampton University, UK, and is supported by the
British Computer Society and Oxford University Press.
It has editorial offices at Texas A&M University and the University
of Maryland, USA.
For more information about JoDI, incl. already published issues and
articles, go to its website at: http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ .
CONTACT AND SUBMISSION
Submission guidelines are at: http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/submit.html
The deadline for submissions to this issue is November 3, 2000.
Please contact and submit to: Traugott Koch ([log in to unmask]).
Traugott Koch will share the editorial work for this special issue
with the other organisers of the ECDL2000 NKOS workshop, Martin Doerr,
Douglas Tudhope, Repke de Vries, and with Linda Hill.
We welcome contributions to the JoDI special issue and your participation
in the NKOS workshop at Lisbon.
Traugott Koch
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NKOS WORKSHOP AT ECDL2000
The Special Workshop on
NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS (NKOS):
European initiatives and projects / options for global co-operation
20 September 2000
is part of the main conference program of ECDL2000 and does not
require any separate registration or payment.
The homepage for the NKOS workshop at ECDL is at:
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/~lhill/nkos/ECDL-NKOS-final.htm
Objectives
This half-day workshop aims to provide an overview of research, development
and projects related to the usage of knowledge organization systems in
Internet based services and digital libraries. These systems can comprise
thesauri and other controlled lists of keywords, ontologies, classification
systems, taxonomies, clustering approaches, dictionaries, lexical databases,
concept maps/spaces, semantic road maps etc.
A second objective of the workshop is to enable and support co-operation
between European initiatives in the area of networked knowledge organization
and to provide a basis for participation in global efforts and standardization
processes.
This workshop will be a chance to reach out to a broader group of people
working in the area, to inform each other on on-going research and projects
and to start discussions about possible common goals and tasks, including
organizational efforts: e.g. setting up a regular event and communication
or collaboration with global NKOS activities.
Workshop content and structure
The half-day workshop spans two conference sessions on September 20. The
workshop will start with an introduction and short statements of experience
and interests from all participants. The main content of the first session
will be presentations from 4 invited panel speakers:
OIL: The Ontology Inference Layer
Sean Bechhofer, Computer Science Department, University of Manchester, UK
http://potato.cs.man.ac.uk/seanb/
Thesaurus Mapping
Martin Doerr, Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas (FORTH),
Greece.
http://www.ics.forth.gr/
Report on NKOS activities in North America
Linda Hill, Alexandria Digital Library Project, University of California at
Santa Barbara
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/~lhill/nkos/
Having the Right Connections: The Limber Project
Ken Miller, Data Archive, University of Essex, UK
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/projects/99-11748.htm
After lunch, the second workshop session will offer an opportunity for all
participants to informally contribute position statements, research topics,
project experiences and perspectives, leading into general (or optionally
small-group) discussion. The workshop will conclude by considering
options for cooperation and future activities.
To facilitate participation in the workshop, we encourage all interested
participants to email short position statements to any of the workshop
organisers. These will be posted on ECDL2000 section of the NKOS website:
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/~lhill/nkos/.
Potential workshop (and journal paper) topics
Digital library requirements for knowledge organization schemas:
- The need for knowledge organization in subject gateways and discovery
services,issues of application and use
- Web-based directory structures as knowledge organization systems
- Knowledge organization as support for web-based information retrieval,
query expansion, cross-language searching
- Semantic portals
Digital library requirements for knowledge based data processing:
- Knowledge organization for filtering, information extraction, summary
- Knowledge organization support for multilingual systems, natural language
processing or machine translation
- Structured result display, clustering
- End-user interactions with knowledge organization systems, evaluation and
studies of use, knowledge bases for supportive user interfaces,
visualization
Digital library requirements for knowledge structuring and management:
- Suitable vocabulary structures, conceptual relationships
- Comparison between established library classification systems and home-
grown browsing structures
- Methodologies, tools and formats for the construction and maintenance of
vocabularies and for mapping between terms, classes and systems
- Frameworks for the analysis of assumptions and viewpoints underlying the
construction and application of terminology systems
- Methods for the combination and adaptation of different vocabularies
Digital library requirements for access to knowledge structures:
- Data exchange and description formats for knowledge organization systems,
the potential and limitations of XML and RDF schemas
- Handling of subject information in metadata formats
- Standards and repositories for machine-readable description of networked
knowledge organization schemas (as collections/systems)
- Interoperability, cross-browsing and cross-searching between distributed
services based on knowledge organization systems
- Distributed access to knowledge organization systems: standard solutions
and protocols for query and response, taxonomy servers
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| TRAUGOTT KOCH, Senior librarian, Digital Library Scientist
| NETLAB, Lund Univ. Library Development Dept. and IT Dept.
| at the Technical Knowledge Center & Library of Denmark.
| NetLab: P.O. Box 3. S-221 00 Lund, Sweden
| Tel: int+46 46 2229233 Fax: int+46 46 2223682
| E-mail: [log in to unmask]
| Personal homepage: http://www.lub.lu.se/koch.html
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