***Apologies for cross-posting***
We would like to invite Europe-based list members to a half-day event in
London organized by the British Chapter of the International Society for
Knowledge Organization (ISKO UK) entitled:
"Sharing Vocabularies on the Web via Simple Knowledge Organization System
(SKOS)"
21 July 2008 from 14:00 - 19:00 (registration starts at 13:30)
Venue: University College London, Engineering Faculty, Roberts Building
G06, Sir Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre
Cost: 20 GBP (students and ISKO members free!)
Predictions for the Semantic Web are heavily dependent on the ability of
computers to reason and communicate using controlled vocabularies. SKOS
(Simple Knowledge Organization System) development aims to bring forward
these capabilities.
Aware of the growing importance of SKOS, ISKO UK in cooperation with School
of Library, Archives and Information Studies at UCL has invited a group of
experts to introduce this standard, explain its status, potential and scope.
Speakers on this event - Alistair Miles, Antoine Isaac, Stella Dextre
Clarke, Leonard Will, Nicolas Cochard, Ceri Binding and Douglas Tudhope -
are involved in the development and application of SKOS and related
standards and are hoping to provoke some interesting discussion.
This event, the third in ISKO UK's KOnnecting KOmmunities series, promises a
fascinating glimpse of the future of controlled vocabularies. No one
involved or interested in the development, management or implementation of
controlled vocabularies can afford to miss it.
For full details on the venue, programme and to book your place at the event
visit http://www.iskouk.org/SKOS_July2008.htm.
Looking forward to seeing you in July!
ISKO UK
http://www.iskouk.org/
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