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T. =========================================================================== Tony Gill ArtSTOR Director of Metadata & Cataloguing, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 140 East 62nd Street, New York, NY, 10021, USA t1 (direct): +1 (646) 274-2265, t2: +1 (212) 838-8400 w: http://www.artstor.org, f: +1 (212) 223-2778 > -----Original Message----- > From: Joan K. Lippincott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday 11 April 2003 10:52 AM > To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Mail List > Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] Networked Knowledge Workshop > > > NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS/SOURCES > 6TH ANNUAL WORKSHOP > BUILDING A MEANINGFUL WEB: FROM TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE > ORGANIZATION > SYSTEMS TO NEW SEMANTIC TOOLS > > > The Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Sources (NKOS) Ad Hoc > Working Group (http://nkos.slis.kent.edu) will hold its 6th annual > workshop at the Alice Pratt Brown Hall of Rice University in > Houston, TX > on May 31 in conjunction with the Joint Conference on Digital > Libraries > (www.jcdl.org). > > This year's workshop, "Building a Meaningful Web", will focus on the > transformation of traditional controlled vocabulary > approaches, such as > authority lists and thesauri, to new forms of knowledge > representation, > such as ontologies, topic maps, and semantic web components, where > relationships between concepts are richer and more extensive and the > requirements of computer processing are met. The session will include > discussion of the contribution of best practices from more traditional > approaches to the design of new knowledge organization systems. > > The goal is to bring these often disparate communities > together so that > the newer efforts of KOS development can take advantage of the best > practices of more traditional systems and the standards for > traditional > KOS structures can benefit from the technological advances being > developed to support improved semantic access to web content. Topics > include: > > * Best practices of traditional KOS systems and their application to > newer semantic forms (ontologies, topic maps, etc.) > * Relevant standards and their status > * Methodologies for transforming legacy KOSs into newer semantic forms > * Development of web services to support the use of KOSs in web-based > digital libraries > * Updates on current NKOS projects and applications and related NISO > standards activities > > The format will consist of invited and volunteered short presentations > and plenty of discussion. In addition, participants will be given the > opportunity to introduce their work and their interests briefly during > the workshop introduction. > > More detail about the program is available at the NKOS web site at > http://nkos.slis.kent.edu. > > Registration is available from the JCDL web site > (www.jcdl.org). Early > registration ends on April 25. Discounts are available for IEEE, ACM > and > ASIST members. > > > ############################################################# > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list <[email protected]>. > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[email protected]> > To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[email protected]> > Send administrative queries to <[email protected]> > > Vist the e-mail list web archive at > <https://mail2.cni.org/Lists/CNI-ANNOUNCE/> >
