Registration for the 6th European Networked Knowledge Organization 

Systems (NKOS) Workshop at the 11th ECDL Conference, Budapest, Hungary 

on September 21st 2007 is still open. It is possible to register for the 

workshop only, in case one does not want to attend the whole conference.

See: http://ecdl2007.org/registration.php



The main themes of the workshop sessions are:



1: Folksonomies and Social tagging, 3 papers from the UK, Canada and Germany



2: Panel Discussion on Project ISO NP 25964: Structured vocabularies for 

information retrieval, 4-5 panelists,

i.e. the innovative solutions reg. a data model and XML schema for a 

structured vocabulary developed in the ongoing BS 8723-5 standard work



3: Implications of online KOS applications, 5 papers featuring facet 

analysis, webification of the DDC, terminology registries, encoding 

formats and SPARQL access to interlinked sources.



4: Mapping, 2 papers from Germany (cross-concordances effort) and 

Poland/Ireland



For the detailed programme please cf. the workshop webpage at:



http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/research/hypermedia/nkos/nkos2007/programme.html



The workshop is organised by:

Douglas Tudhope, Hypermedia Research Unit, School of Computing, 

University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Wales, UK

Traugott Koch, Max Planck Digital Library, Berlin, Germany

Marianne Lykke Nielsen, Department of Information Studies, Royal School 

of Library and Information Science, Aalborg Branch, Aalborg, Denmark



Welcome to Budapest,

Traugott Koch





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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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