Morning all!

As many of you know, terminology development is one of the key features of
FISH work. In this context, I thought many of you might be interested to see
the papers in the latest issue of JoDI - the Journal of Digital Information
- which this month focusses on thesaurus issues, especially how multiple
thesauri can be harnessed together. The papers are on the web (links below)
and can be viewed freely.

NKOS is an international organisation of groups such as ours. I am keen that
FISH should have some formal participation in NKOS - do any FISH list
members have contacts in NKOS? How do we get involved?

Ed

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Subject: Special Issue of Journal of Digital Information focuses on NKOS


Dear NKOS Folks,

Apologies if you have already received notification of this.
Congratulations
to Traugott, and members of NKOS who contributed to this special issue of
JoDI.  It is a wonderful contribution to the literature on this topic. --
Gail

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JoDI Announcements wrote:

> Journal of Digital Information announces
> A SPECIAL ISSUE on Networked Knowledge Organization Systems
> (Volume 1, issue 8, April 2001)
> Guest Editor: Traugott Koch, Lund University, Sweden
>
> ** NOTE FOR USERS JoDI no longer requires that you need to log-in to view
> papers. More below.
>
>  From the special issue editorial
> "Knowledge Organization Systems can comprise thesauri and other controlled
> lists of keywords, ontologies, classification systems, clustering
> approaches, taxonomies, gazetteers, dictionaries, lexical databases,
> concept maps/spaces, semantic road maps, etc. These schemas enable
> knowledge structuring and management, knowledge-based data processing and
> systematic access to knowledge structures in individual collections and
> digital libraries. Used as interactive information services on the
Internet
> they have an increased potential to support the description, discovery and
> retrieval of heterogeneous information resources and to contribute to an
> overall resource discovery infrastructure."
> http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i08/editorial/
>
> The issue includes the following papers:
>
> S. Cranefield, Networked knowledge representation and exchange using UML
> and RDF
> http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i08/Cranefield/
>
> M. Doerr, Semantic Problems of Thesaurus Mapping
> http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i08/Doerr/
>
> J. Hunter, MetaNet - A Metadata Term Thesaurus to Enable Sematic
> Interoperability between Metadata Domains
> http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i08/Hunter/
>
> K. Miller, B. Matthews, Having the right connections: the LIMBER project
> http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i08/Miller/
>
> D. Tudhope, H. Alani, C. Jones, Augmenting thesaurus relationships:
> possibilities for retrieval
> http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v01/i08/Tudhope/
>
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