Dear Colleagues,
Making metadata work - Monday 23rd June 2014 - BCS Office, 5
Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA.
If you have not already made a booking for this event, please don't
delay as it is proving very popular.
Although the morning workshop and tutorial are already full booked,
there are still places for the afternoon session. In view of the
demand, it's likely the tutorial will be repeated on another date;
do let us know if you are interested. To make your booking, go to
<http://www.iskouk.org/events/metadata_June_2014.htm#introduction>.
This event will be a showcase for the latest developments in
the evolution of the Semantic Web, exploitation of Knowledge
Organization Systems (KOS), metadata annotation to aid workflow
automation, information retrieval in networks of diverse media
assets, Linked Data, and other opportunities for using metadata. It
is a Joint Meeting of ISKO UK, IRSG (Information Retrieval Special
Interest Group of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT) and DCMI
(Dublin Core Metadata Initiative). The day will be modular:
attendance in the morning is optional, with a choice of workshop or
tutorial, while the afternoon programme is for everyone.
Afternoon meeting (Plenary, 14.00 – 18.00)
Martin White: The importance of metadata for high quality Search
Sean Bechhofer: Wf4Ever: metadata for “Research Objects”
Mark Sandler: Semantic Media: a new paradigm for navigable content
for the 21st century
Richard Ranft: Enhancing discovery of the British Library's audio
collections
Antoine Isaac: A portrait of Europeana as a Linked Open Data case
(in progress)
Andrew MacFarlane: Analysing creative image search queries to
determine important facets
The speakers and presentations are described in more detail on our
website at <http://www.iskouk.org/events/metadata_June_2014_pm.htm>.
As usual there will be more networking,with wine and nibbles, from
18.00.
Morning options
a) Tutorial: Metadata management in Sharepoint (10.00 -12.00)
While Sharepoint 2013 offers more metadata capabilities than ever
before, the range of options can make it hard to implement the most
effective way. Management of controlled vocabularies is a particular
challenge. This tutorial will enable you to pick the brains of an
experienced consultant, Marc Stephenson of Metataxis.
b) Workshop: Vocabularies and the potential for linkage (9.30
– 12.30; now fully booked)
Various approaches to the linkage of value vocabularies (KOSs)
and/or element set vocabularies (metadata schemas) will be described
by Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche (Fujitsu, Ireland), Dan Brickley
(Google), Gordon Dunsire and Stella Dextre Clarke, with emphasis on
the opportunities as well as the barriers to widespread adoption.
After that is a case study from Johan De Smedt and Agis Papantoniou,
both of TenForce, that draws on more than one technique. The
subsequent discussion will address the prospects for take-up, aiming
to help participants with application or development of similar
techniques and projects.
Registration fee and booking
Full day, including lunch and a choice of tutorial or workshop: £120
(or £70 for members of ISKO, IRSG or DCMI and for full-time
students);
Afternoon only: £60 (or £25 for members of ISKO, IRSG or DCMI and
for full-time students).
Booking is open at <http://www.iskouk.org/events/metadata_June_2014.htm#introduction>
About ISKO UK
ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization) is a
not-for-profit scientific/professional association with the
objective of promoting research and communication in the domain of
knowledge organization, within the broad field of information
science and related disciplines. Founded in 2007, our UK Chapter has
been attracting lively and steadily growing audiences to its
afternoon meeting series (see slides and recordings at http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm).
Its third conference was held in July 2013 on the general theme of
“Knowledge organization – pushing the boundaries” http://www.iskouk.org/conf2013/.
About BCS IRSG
Established in 1978, the main aim of the BCS IRSG is supporting the
communication between information retrieval (IR) researchers and
practitioners, promoting the use of IR methods in industry and
raising public awareness of IR-related topics. Recognizing IR as an
interdisciplinary field, a further aim of the BCS IRSG is to act as
a link between computer science, library and information science and
also cognate communities (like natural language processing).
About DCMI
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is an open, international
forum for the development of interoperable online metadata standards
with diverse applications. DCMI’s activities include
consensus-driven working groups, global conferences and workshops,
standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread
acceptance of metadata standards and practices. DCMI is a project of
ASIS&T (the Association for Information Science and Technology).
We shall all look forward to welcoming you on the day.
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