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You are cordially invited to attend ISKO UK's one-day conference on
Linked Data:
LINKED DATA: THE FUTURE OF KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION ON THE WEB
14 September 2010: 10:00 - 19:00
VENUE: University College London, Chemistry Lecture Theatre, Gordon
Street, WC1H
FEE: Non-members: £55 (£50 if paid by 10th September)
ISKO UK members & students: £20 (£15 if paid in advance)
Since Tim Berners-Lee first wrote in detail about it in July 2006,
Linked Data has remained something of a shadowy mystery for many. Yet,
the principle is simple: you can add value to your information by
linking it to that of others. ISKO UK believes that a day examining the
basic technology, together with a closer look at the emerging,
real-world examples of Linked Data in practice, will be of immense
benefit to all information workers.
Linked Data is the 'public face' of the Semantic Web; it is here, now,
and is growing. Catch up with Linked Data at this conference.
Prof. Nigel Shadbolt, co-architect with Tim Berners-Lee of the UK's
data.gov.uk initiative, will deliver the morning keynote on the
relevance of Linked Data to public information. Antoine Isaac will
explain how SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) supports Linked
Data. Richard Wallis of Talis, will discuss the approaches used, lessons
learnt, and the resulting successful outcomes of practical
implementations of Linked Data. Steve Dale will end the morning session
with an account of how Linked Data is to play a key role in the
Knowledge Hub (Khub) serving to enable knowledge sharing in the local
government sector.
The afternoon keynote speaker, Prof. Martin Hepp, will present the
GoodRelations ontology, which enables consumers to search the Web for
goods and services with far greater specificity than ever before by
using Linked Data to weave a giant graph of information about products,
offers, stores, and related facts. Andy Powell will then describe the
work undertaken by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) to align
itself with the Semantic Web, and will draw parallels with some of the
issues faced by Linked Data.
John Goodwin will follow by discussing the challenges around
constructing linked data for geographic and spatial information with
particular emphasis given to the work done at Ordnance Survey.
Andreas Blumauer will describe how PoolParty supports the creation and
maintenance of thesauri by utilizing Linked Open Data (LOD),
text-analysis and easy-to-use GUIs, so thesauri can be managed and
utilized by domain experts without needing knowledge about the semantic
web. And finally, Bernard Vatant will discuss the issues involved in
aligning Semantic Web technologies like Linked Data and SKOS-XL, with
the real-world needs of terminologists, using EUROVOC and the lexvo
initiative as illustrations.
With the speakers' contributions in mind, the conference will end with a
panel discussion on whether the Semantic Web is a threat or an
opportunity for conventional approaches to KO. Any differences of
opinion aired, will then be sublimated over wine (or water) and nibbles
in a final opportunity to network.
This ISKO UK one-day conference is organized in cooperation with the UCL
Department for Information Studies.
To read more and to book your place, go to the event page
http://www.iskouk.org/events/linked_data_sep2010.htm.
We look forward to seeing you on 14 September.
Stella Dextre Clarke, Programme Chair, ISKO UK
British Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization
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Information Consultant
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