-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: NKOS WORKSHOP AT JCDL, JUNE 10-11 List-Post: [email protected] Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:48:58 EST From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] PLEASE PASS THIS ANNOUNCEMENT AROUND TO COLLEAGUES WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED. -- GAIL Call for Presentations at the 7th Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop at JCDL2005 June 10-11 in Denver, Colorado Next Generation Knowledge Organization Systems: Integration Challenges and Stategies The 7th NKOS Workshop will take place on June 10-11, as part of JCDL2005 in Denver, Colorado <http://www.jcdl2005.org <http://www.ecdl2005.org/>>. It builds on the previous NKOS Workshops at JCDL and ECDL. A combination of invited and submitted presentations will make up the program. Proposals are invited for presentations (20 minutes) on work or projects related to the themes of the workshop. Please email proposals (500 words) by April 1st to Gail Hodge. Further details will be posted on the NKOS website as they emerge: http://nkos.slis.kent.edu <http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/> See below for list of indicative topics and provisional schedule of the workshop. Main Contact: Gail Hodge Information International Associates, Inc. 312 Walnut Pl. Havertown, PA 19083 USA Email: [email protected] Background This year's Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) workshop builds on seven years of workshops in the U.S. and Europe on issues enabling networked knowledge organization systems (KOS), such as classification systems, thesauri, gazetteers, taxonomies, and ontologies, to support the description, retrieval, and use of diverse information resources. Now many efforts are underway to research the issues and implement solutions to the challenges of networking and integrating KOS somewhat isolated domains: indexing services and thesaurus builders; computer scientists and system integrators; ontologists; taxonomists; and others. Requirements to solve these integration issues have become mission critical in many cases; the need to support computational, programmatic integration to handle masses of data from independent sources is pushing the research and development agenda. The need to move forward to meet these challenges while at the same time applying the best practices and "wisdom" developed through years of practical experience is acute. The JCDL-NKOS workshop for 2005 will bring together researchers and implementers from diverse international communities who are developing new models, conducting research, and implementing practical solutions for networking KOS and integrating the associated information and data resources. The primary aim of the workshop is to inform NKOS researchers and practitioners about developments across a number of communities and to identify research and development directions. The objectives are to encourage sharing of new initiatives and lessons learned and to identify collaborative development opportunities. Topics may include: * The integration of KOS of different types, including thesauri, classification systems, gazetteers, taxonomies and ontologies, in support of specific digital library and semantic web initiatives. * Methodologies, tools, and strategies for integrating and extending KOS to address new technology opportunities and to bridge domains and user communities. * Updates to terminology related standards, including OWL, RDF, NISO Z39.19, the British Thesaurus Standard and others from ISO and the W3C. * Identification of a research agenda to move forward Program Outline Session 1: Welcome and introduction to NKOS and to the workshop Session 2: Self-introductions and brief descriptions of projects and interests particularly as they relate to the topic of integration and interoperability Session 3: Case studies about the interoperability and integration of KOSs (approximately 2 presentations) Session 4: Presentations on methodologies, tools and strategies (approximately 2) Session 5: Presentations on recent related standards activities (approximately 2) Session 6: Open discussion of the issues raised in the previous sessions Session 7: Identification of a research agenda based on reactions from a panel of practitioners, software developers, academics and standards developers Workshop Format The full-day workshop will begin Friday afternoon and end Saturday morning. It will include invited and accepted presentations, guided by a program committee. Presentations will be grouped into topic sessions and demonstrations can be set up for access before and after the workshop and during breaks. Discussion and identification of issues will be encouraged by providing a significant amount of time for open discussion and networking opportunities. Participants will be given the opportunity to introduce their work and their interests. The identification of a research agenda will involve significant facilitated discussions. Expected Participants · Digital library and information infrastructure developers, · Thesaurus and ontology developers, · Standard developers in the area of terminology usage and exchange, · Resource discovery service providers (search engines, directories, portals etc.) · Information scientists, library museum and archive professionals, · Language engineering and terminology researchers · Knowledge managers Program Committee Gail Hodge, Information International Associates, Inc. Jian Qin, University of Syracuse Douglas Tudhope, University of Glamorgan Marcia Zeng, Kent State University Linda Hill Registration and Further Details JCDL2005 will handle registration for the Workshop as part of the conference registration. See the NKOS web site for further details and for general information on NKOS: http://nkos.slis.kent.edu <http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/> -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Martin Doerr | Vox:+30(2810)391625 | Principle Researcher | Fax:+30(2810)391638 | | Email: [email protected] | | Center for Cultural Informatics | Information Systems Laboratory | Institute of Computer Science | Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) | | Vassilika Vouton,P.O.Box1385,GR71110 Heraklion,Crete,Greece | | Web-site: http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl | --------------------------------------------------------------
