Dear all,
This workshop on Networked Knowledge Organization Systems on
June 10-11 at JCDL should be of interest to many subscribers of
this list. It addresses the challenge of networking thesauri,
taxonomies, and other sorts of structured vocabularies.
Tom
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Next Generation Knowledge Organization Systems:
Integration Challenges and Stategies
7th Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop
JCDL2005
June 10-11, 2005
Denver, Colorado USA
Advance registration is open until May 9.
The 7th NKOS Workshop will take place on June 10-11, at the Denver Marriott
City Center, Denver, Colorado as part JCDL 2005 (www.jcdl2005.org) .
This Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) workshop builds on seven
years of workshops in the U.S. and Europe on issues enabling networked
knowledge organization systems (KOS), such as classification systems, thesauri,
gazetteers, taxonomies, and ontologies, to support the description, retrieval, and
use of diverse information resources. Now many efforts are underway to
research the issues and implement solutions to the challenges of networking and
integrating KOS in somewhat isolated domains: indexing services and thesaurus
builders, computer scientists and system integrators, ontologists, taxonomists,
and others. Requirements to solve these integration issues have become mission
critical. The need to support computational, programmatic integration to handle
masses of data from independent sources is pushing the research and
development agenda. The need to move forward to meet these challenges while at the same
time applying the best practices and "wisdom" developed through years of
practical experience is acute.
The JCDL-NKOS workshop for 2005 will bring together researchers and
implementers from diverse international communities who are developing new models,
conducting research, and implementing practical solutions for networking KOS and
integrating the associated information and data resources. The primary aim of
the workshop is to inform NKOS researchers and practitioners about
developments across a number of communities and to identify research and development
directions. The objectives are to encourage sharing of new initiatives and
lessons learned and to identify collaborative development opportunities.
Topics will include:
The integration of KOS of different types, including thesauri, classification
systems, gazetteers, taxonomies and ontologies, in support of specific
digital library and semantic web initiatives.
Methodologies, tools, and strategies for integrating and extending KOS to
address new technology opportunities and to bridge domains and user communities.
Updates to terminology related standards, including OWL, RDF, NISO Z39.19,
the British Thesaurus Standard, the IFLA Guidelines for Multilingual Thesauri,
and others from ISO and the W3C.
Identification of a research agenda to move forward
Workshop Format
The full-day workshop will begin Friday afternoon and end Saturday noon. It
will include invited and accepted presentations selected by the program
committee. Presentations will be grouped into topic sessions. Demonstrations may
also be set up before and after the workshop and during breaks. Time will be
provided for discussion of issues and networking opportunities. Participants will
be given the opportunity to introduce their work and their interests.
Facilitated discussions will be used to identify a research agenda.
Who Should Attend?
? Digital library and information infrastructure developers,
? Thesaurus, taxonomy, ontology and other KOS developers,
? Standards developers in the area of terminology usage and exchange,
? Resource discovery service providers (search engines, directories,
portals etc.)
? Information scientists, library, museum and archive professionals,
? Language engineering and terminology researchers
? Knowledge managers
Program Committee
Gail Hodge, Information International Associates, Inc.
Jian Qin, University of Syracuse
Douglas Tudhope, University of Glamorgan
Marcia Zeng, Kent State University
Linda Hill, UC Santa Barbara (retired)
Registration and Further Details
Advance registration with early discount is open until May 9 from the
JCDL2005 web site at http://www.jcdl2005.org/registration.html
Attendees are encouraged to attend the JCDL conference, but the regular
conference fee does not include the workshop. Please check the above web site for
applicable rates.
See the NKOS web site for further details, including the most recent program,
and for general information on NKOS: http://nkos.slis.kent.edu
For additional information contact:
Gail Hodge
Information International Associates, Inc.
312 Walnut Pl.
Havertown, PA 19083 USA
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