Forwarded for information of list members. Plenty of relevant links relating
to thesauri etc... all free to download and peruse at leisure.

Ed

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From: Tudhope D S (Comp) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 24 March 2004 16:06
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Subject: New Applications of Knowledge Organization Systems - Journal of
Digital Information special issue now available


The Journal of Digital Information special issue on
New Applications of Knowledge Organization Systems
has just been published and is freely available on the Web
at the address below.
Doug

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Journal of Digital Information announces
A SPECIAL ISSUE on New Applications of Knowledge Organization Systems
(Volume 4, issue 4, March 2004)
Special issue Editors: Douglas Tudhope, University of Glamorgan, and
Traugott Koch, Lund University


From the special issue editorial:
"Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (KOS), such as classifications,
gazetteers, lexical databases, ontologies, taxonomies and thesauri, model
the underlying semantic structure of a domain. Embodied as Web-based
services, they can facilitate resource discovery and retrieval. They act as
semantic road maps and make possible a common orientation by indexers and
future users (whether human or machine)."

"New networked KOS services and applications are emerging and we are
reaching the stage where we might begin to exploit common representations
and protocols for distributed use. We are not yet in this situation.
However, we have the opportunity to draw on a number of technologies that
can be combined to yield new solutions."

"The papers published here are concerned with various types of KOS,
discuss various standards issues and span the information lifecycle"
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i04/editorial/


The issue includes the following papers:

C. Binding, D. Tudhope (February 2004)
KOS at your Service: Programmatic Access to Knowledge Organisation Systems
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i04/Binding/

T. Smith, M. Zeng (January 2004)
Building Semantic Tools for Concept-based Learning Spaces
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i04/Smith/

D. Soergel, B. Lauser, A. Liang, F. Fisseha (March 2004)
Reengineering Thesauri for New Applications: The AGROVOC Example
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i04/Soergel/

K. Veltman (March 2004)
Towards a Semantic Web for Culture
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i04/Veltman/

D. Vizine-Goetz, C. Hickey, A. Houghton, R. Thompson (March 2004)
Vocabulary Mapping for Terminology Services
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i04/Vizine-Goetz/

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