Call for Presentations and Participation
4th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop
ECDL2005 September 22 Vienna
Mapping Knowledge Organisation Systems: User-centred Strategies
An NKOS Workshop will take place on September 22nd, as part of ECDL 2005 in Vienna. Proposals are invited for presentations (20 minutes) on work or projects related to the themes of the workshop or to NKOS more generally. Presentations from the Workshop may be selected for consideration in a forthcoming (early 2006) NKOS special issue of the journal New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia.
Please email proposals (approx 500 words including aims, methods, main findings) by June 20 to Douglas Tudhope. Advance indication that you intend to submit would be helpful. Proposals will be peer-reviewed by the program committee and notification of acceptance will be given by July 15. After the workshop, copies of presentations will be made available on this website.
For full details visit the workshop website:
http://www2.db.dk/nkos2005/
The workshop aims to address key challenges for KOS posed by the overlapping themes of
* User-centred design issues
* Mapping between different KOS
* KOS representations and service protocols
However other topics can also be proposed. See below for indicative list of topics and provisional schedule.
Main Contact: Douglas Tudhope,
Hypermedia Research Unit, School of Computing,
University of Glamorgan
Pontypridd, CF37 1DL, Wales, UK
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http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/staff/dstudhope
Co-organiser: Marianne Lykke Nielsen,
Department of Information Studies, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Aalborg Branch, Aalborg, Denmark
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http://www2.db.dk/mln/
Background
Knowledge Organization Systems, such as classifications, gazetteers, lexical databases, ontologies, taxonomies and thesauri, attempt to model the underlying semantic structure of a domain for the purposes of retrieval. New networked KOS services and applications are emerging and we have the opportunity to draw on a number of technologies that can be combined to yield new solutions.
The workshop aims to address the following key themes:
* User-centred design issues - User-centred design strategies for KOS. How to develop understandable and thorough descriptions of concepts and terms? How to show and explain relationships? The challenge is to find the appropriate level of explanation, clarity and conciseness.
* Mapping between different KOS - How to achieve semantic interoperability? Cross-browsing and cross-searching between distributed KOS services. Mapping between terms, classes, systems and types of KOS. Innovative visualization methods to support KOS development and mapping.
* KOS representations and service protocols - A basic infrastructure is needed to provide protocols for networked, programmatic access to a variety of vocabularies for different end users and applications. These require standard representations in formats such as RDF/XML. What is the appropriate granularity of base services to apply in evolving Web/Grid environments?
Other topics for presentations can also be proposed.
Program committee
Hanne Albrechtsen, Risų National Laboratory, Denmark
Stella Dextre Clarke, Luke House, Wantage, United Kingdom
Ron Davies, Information Consultant, Brussels, Belgium
Lois Delcambre, Computer Science Department, Portland State University, USA
Martin Doerr, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece
Traugott Koch, Knowledge Technologies Group, Lund University, Sweden
Alistair Miles, CCLRC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom
Dagobert Soergel, University of Maryland, USA
Diane Vizine-Goetz, OCLC Research, USA
Marcia Zeng, Kent State University, USA
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