The 7th NKOS Workshop at the European Digital Library Conference will 
take place on September 19th, as part of ECDL 2008 in Aarhus, Denmark 
(http://www.ecdl2008.org/ <http://www.ecdl2008.org/> ).

The workshop will explore the potential of Networked Knowledge 
Organization Systems (NKOS), such as classification systems, taxonomies, 
thesauri, ontologies, and lexical databases. These tools attempt to 
model the underlying semantic structure of a domain for purposes of 
information retrieval, knowledge discovery, language engineering, and 
the semantic web.

The workshop topics include but are not limited to

*    Social tagging. Participative user-based approaches to knowledge 
organization and description are emerging and attracting significant 
community support. What is the role of social tagging and informal 
knowledge structures versus established KOS? How do the methods 
complement each other? Is it possible or desirable to obtain some degree 
of control in social tagging systems?
*    Semantic Web applications and implications of KOS. How can KOS 
contribute to Semantic Web efforts and conversely how can Semantic Web 
standards and technologies facilitate novel KOS applications and 
semantic interoperability research. What are the next steps for 
SKOS-based tools?
*    KOS Interoperability. Intellectual and automatic methods for 
vocabulary mapping on concept as well as term level. Cross-browsing and 
cross-searching between distributed KOS services, Mapping between KOS 
and ontologies.
*    Terminology registry. What is the range of services that a 
terminology registry might offer and what role can it play as a shared 
infrastructure service? We need to identify and specify use cases and 
sustainable business models.
*    Terminology services. We need to identify and specify terminology 
services for different applications, within a service-oriented 
approach/architecture, building on the basic infrastructure.
*    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? Cost effective methods to 
collect and organise user oriented and domain-specific conceptual 
information.
*    Terminology for language-oriented applications. Common ground and 
differences in knowledge organisation approaches between terminology and 
information retrieval communities.


Please email proposals for presentations (approx. 500 words including 
aims, methods, main findings)

                          by **June 20th**

to Marianne Lykke Nielsen ([log in to unmask]). Advance indication that you 
intend to submit a presentation would be helpful. Proposals will be 
peer-reviewed by the program committee and notification of acceptance 
will be given by July 4th. The early registration deadline for the 
conference and the workshop is July 31st.

Full details on the call for presentation proposals are at 
http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/research/hypermedia/nkos/nkos2008/call-for-papers.html 
<http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/research/hypermedia/nkos/nkos2008/call-for-papers.html> 
  as part of the workshop website.
See also the NKOS event wiki at 
http://colab.mpdl.mpg.de/mediawiki/NKOSevents_2008_preparation 
<http://colab.mpdl.mpg.de/mediawiki/NKOSevents_2008_preparation>  where 
we can discuss ideas and plans for the workshop.

Hope to see you in Aarhus,
Traugott
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Traugott Koch
Max Planck Digital Library, Invalidenstr. 35, D-101 15 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49 30-288867789
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Homepage: http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/staff/tkoch/
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