[CODE4LIB] **SKOS-2-HIVE: CREATING SKOS VOCABULARIES TO HELP INTERDISCIPLINARY VOCABULARY ENGINEERING**

[Kevin S. Clarke]

Forwarding because I think this will be of interest to some folks on the
list...

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***SKOS-2-HIVE: CREATING SKOS VOCABULARIES TO HELP INTERDISCIPLINARY
VOCABULARY ENGINEERING***



We are pleased to announce the addition of more HIVE workshops!


*DATES AND LOCATIONS*

*April 29, 2011

University of North Texas, Denton, Texas;

Registration Deadline: April 20th

*Click Here to Register for Texas Workshop
 

*May 20, 2011

Columbia University, New York City;

Registration Deadline: May 10th*

Click Here to Register for New York Workshop 


*California-based workshop date to be determined!


If your institution is interested in hosting a workshop, please contact at:*
  hive.workshop2...@gmail.com

*WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION*

*SKOS-2-HIVE* workshops focus on using semantic web technologies for
representing and describing collections using multiple controlled
vocabularies. The workshop focuses on basic understanding and usage of W3C's
Simple Knowledge Organization Systems
(SKOS), linked
data, and the HIVE library of open source applications.

There are two workshop components:

1. *Foundational Concepts and HIVE Basics*. This component addresses the
conceptual design of structured vocabularies, including a range of semantic
relationships; domain representation and issues central to identifying
useful vocabularies; the application of basic SKOS tags; and basic
techniques underlying the HIVE vocabulary server for enriching
digital resource descriptions.

2. I*mplementing HIVE*. This component covers more technical aspects
including steps for implementing a HIVE server.

Workshop outlines and learning outcomes provided further below.
Workshop rationale: Semantic web technologies provide innovative means for
organizing, describing, and managing digital resources in a range of
formats. Successful implementation and use of semantic web technologies
requires both information professionals and system developers to become
knowledgeable about the underlying intellectual construct and roadmap toward
forming a semantic web. The IMLS-funded Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary
Engineering (HIVE)  project
has been addressing these needs by working with the W3C's Simple Knowledge
Organization Systems (SKOS)  in the
linked data environment. HIVE has been implemented using semantic web
enabling technologies and machine learning to provide a solution to the
traditional controlled vocabulary problems of cost, interoperability, and
usability. Current HIVE vocabulary partners include the Library of
Congress,
the Getty Research Institute , and the U.S.
Geological Survey .

*
**WORKSHOP OUTLINE AND LEARNING OUTCOMES*

*Morning Session: Foundational Concepts and HIVE Basics, 8:30 AM-12:00 PM*

*Overview*

This session addresses traditional thesaural concepts and the extension of
these concepts via SKOS/linked data, HIVE and the semantic web.

*Audience*

This workshop targets information professionals (librarians, archivists,
museum professional, web architects, and others); system developers; and
students seeking knowledge about the basic framework and conceptual aspect
of vocabulary design.

*Prerequisites*

Have a basic understanding of subject metadata creation or subject
cataloging.

*Learning Outcomes*

- Evaluate controlled vocabulary, thesauri, and ontologies that would best
fit your information environment's needs.

- Identify basic thesaural relationships including: relative, associative
and hierarchical.

- Use basic SKOS tags to identify the above thesaural relationships.

- Become familiar with using the HIVE software and the HIVE processes.

*
**Lunch on your own 12:00 PM-1:00 PM*

*
**Afternoon Session: Implementing HIVE 1:00 PM-4:30 PM*

*Overview*

This session provides details on the HIVE system, underlying algorithms,
source code, and the library of system features.

*Audience*

System developers, as well as technologists, librarians, and information
scientists who are interested in the technological side of the semantic web,
and who may be implementing, experiments with, and/or extending HIVE
technologies.

*Prerequisites*

Java programming, and object oriented design.

*Learning Outcomes
*
- Understand the architecture of the HIVE vocabulary server.
- Become familiar with information retrieval techniques and how HIVE applies
them to vocabulary terms.
- Gain experience indexing documents with HIVE and KEA (a machine learning
application).
- Learn how to integrate HIVE vocabulary services into other tools.
- Learn how to use the SPARQL language for querying content in HIVE.

Click here to register for Texas Workshop 

Click here to register for New York Workshop 

[CODE4LIB] SKOS-2-HIVE workshop, DC area

[Ryan Scherle]

Workshop announcement:

**SKOS-2-HIVE: CREATING SKOS VOCABULARIES TO HELP INTERDISCIPLINARY VOCABULARY 
ENGINEERING**

George Washington University (Mt. Vernon Campus), March 9, 2011

Location: Eckles Library Auditorium, Mt. Vernon Campus of George Washington 
University

Click Here to Register (REGISTRATION CLOSES ON MARCH 1)
 

 

§  WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The SKOS-2-HIVE workshop focuses on using semantic web technologies for 
representing and describing collections using multiple controlled vocabularies. 
The workshop focuses on basic understanding and usage of W3C's Simple Knowledge 
Organization Systems (SKOS), linked data, and the HIVE library of open source 
applications.

There are two workshop components:

1. Foundational Concepts and HIVE Basics. This component addresses the 
conceptual design of structured vocabularies, including a range of semantic 
relationships; domain representation and issues central to identifying useful 
vocabularies; the application of basic SKOS tags; and basic techniques 
underlying the HIVE vocabulary server for enriching digital resource 
descriptions.

2. Implementing HIVE. This component covers more technical aspects including 
steps for implementing a HIVE server.

Workshop outlines and learning outcomes provided further below.
Workshop rationale: Semantic web technologies provide innovative means for 
organizing, describing, and managing digital resources in a range of formats. 
Successful implementation and use of semantic web technologies requires both 
information professionals and system developers to become knowledgeable about 
the underlying intellectual construct and roadmap toward forming a semantic 
web. The IMLS-funded Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering (HIVE) 
project has been addressing these needs by working with the W3C's Simple 
Knowledge Organization Systems (SKOS) in the linked data environment. HIVE has 
been implemented using semantic web enabling technologies and machine learning 
to provide a solution to the traditional controlled vocabulary problems of 
cost, interoperability, and usability. Current HIVE vocabulary partners include 
the Library of Congress, theGetty Research Institute, and the U.S. Geological 
Survey.

 

§  WORKSHOP OUTLINE AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Morning Session: Foundational Concepts and HIVE Basics, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM

Overview

This session addresses traditional thesaural concepts and the extension of 
these concepts via SKOS/linked data, HIVE and the semantic web.

Audience

This workshop targets information professionals (librarians, archivists, museum 
professional, web architects, and others); system developers; and students 
seeking knowledge about the basic framework and conceptual aspect of vocabulary 
design.

Prerequisites

Have a basic understanding of subject metadata creation or subject cataloging.

Learning Outcomes

- Evaluate controlled vocabulary, thesauri, and ontologies that would best fit 
your information environment's needs.

- Identify basic thesaural relationships including: relative, associative and 
hierarchical.

- Use basic SKOS tags to identify the above thesaural relationships.

- Become familiar with using the HIVE software and the HIVE processes.


Lunch on your own 12:00 PM-1:00 PM


Afternoon Session: Implementing HIVE 1:00 PM-4:00 PM

Overview

This session provides details on the HIVE system, underlying algorithms, source 
code, and the library of system features.

Audience

System developers, as well as technologists, librarians, and information 
scientists who are interested in the technological side of the semantic web, 
and who may be implementing, experiments with, and/or extending HIVE 
technologies.

Prerequisites

Java programming, and object oriented design.

Learning Outcomes

- Understand the architecture of the HIVE vocabulary server.
- Become familiar with information retrieval techniques and how HIVE applies 
them to vocabulary terms.
- Gain experience indexing documents with HIVE and KEA (a machine learning 
application).
- Learn how to integrate HIVE vocabulary services into other tools.
- Learn how to use the SPARQL language for querying content in HIVE.
 

Registration fees and registration

$60.00 half day (single session)

$105.00 full day (both sessions)

Registration fee includes: Coffee and Danishes from 8:00 AM-9:00 AM; does not 
include lunch.

Participants are asked to bring their own laptops.

Click Here to Register

 

 

** Wiki link for workshop: 
https://www.nescent.org/sites/hive/GWU_Workshop_2011#George_Washington_University_.28Mt._Vernon_Campus.29.2C_March_9.2C_2011.

 

Workshop Leaders

Jane Greenberg is a professor at the School of Information and Library Science, 
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (SILS/UNC-CH), and director of the 
SILS Metadata Research Center.

Ryan Scherle is the lead data repository architect for Dryad at the National 
Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent).

Hollie White is doctoral fellow at the SILS Me

Re: [CODE4LIB] SKOS?

[Yitzchak Schaffer]

Jon Phipps wrote:

Hi Yitzchak,

Probably the quickest explanation is to look at the first few slides
from a presentation that I gave on SKOS at the Open Forum on Metadata
Registries last year...
http://www.slideshare.net/jonphipps/skos-2007-open-forum-on-metadata-
registries-nyc/


Just what I needed.  Thanks Jon!

--
Yitzchak Schaffer
Systems Librarian
Touro College Libraries
33 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010
Tel (212) 463-0400 x230
Fax (212) 627-3197
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [CODE4LIB] SKOS?

[Tom Keays]

SKOS can handle a variety of knowledge systems including
classification schemes, subject heading systems, thesauri, etc.

As a real world example, the Library of Congress is apparently looking
at representing LCSH in SKOS.

Tom

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Jon Phipps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Yitzchak,
>
>  Probably the quickest explanation is to look at the first few slides
>  from a presentation that I gave on SKOS at the Open Forum on Metadata
>  Registries last year...
>  http://www.slideshare.net/jonphipps/skos-2007-open-forum-on-metadata-
>  registries-nyc/
>
>  Currently, SKOS is headed towards being a W3C recommendation. There's
>  a new RFC draft of the SKOS Primer...
>  http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-primer-20080221/
>
>   From the new primer: "SKOS — Simple Knowledge Organisation System —
>  provides a model for expressing the basic structure and content of
>  concept schemes such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject
>  heading lists, taxonomies, folksonomies, and other types of
>  controlled vocabulary. As an application of the Resource Description
>  Framework (RDF) SKOS allows concepts to be documented, linked and
>  merged with other data, while still being composed, integrated and
>  published on the World Wide Web."
>
>  But comparing SKOS to other projects in Libraryland is liable to be
>  anything but quick, imho. There are other standard methods for
>  describing thesauri and vocabularies (Z39.19, ISO2788/5964, BS8723 --
>  and see http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/SWAD/thes_links.htm), but none that
>  I'm aware of that are as rdf-centric as SKOS.
>
>  Hope this gives you a better place to start,
>
>  Jon Phipps
>  Cornell University Library
>
>
>
>
>  On Mar 4, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote:
>
>  > Greetings all:
>  >
>  > Many thanks to all the presenters for a great conference!
>  >
>  > One thing that people kept mentioning was SKOS.  That was a duhh point
>  > for me; I just took a look at the w3.org and Wikipedia pages on it,
>  > but
>  > it doesn't look like something I can spend time trying to figure out
>  > right now. Does anyone have a quick explanation comparing this to
>  > other
>  > projects/concepts in Libraryland?
>  >
>  > Many thanks,
>  >
>  > --
>  > Yitzchak Schaffer
>  > Systems Librarian
>  > Touro College Libraries
>  > 33 West 23rd Street
>  > New York, NY 10010
>  > Tel (212) 463-0400 x230
>  > Fax (212) 627-3197
>  > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] SKOS?

[Jon Phipps]

Hi Yitzchak,

Probably the quickest explanation is to look at the first few slides
from a presentation that I gave on SKOS at the Open Forum on Metadata
Registries last year...
http://www.slideshare.net/jonphipps/skos-2007-open-forum-on-metadata-
registries-nyc/

Currently, SKOS is headed towards being a W3C recommendation. There's
a new RFC draft of the SKOS Primer...
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-skos-primer-20080221/

From the new primer: "SKOS — Simple Knowledge Organisation System —
provides a model for expressing the basic structure and content of
concept schemes such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject
heading lists, taxonomies, folksonomies, and other types of
controlled vocabulary. As an application of the Resource Description
Framework (RDF) SKOS allows concepts to be documented, linked and
merged with other data, while still being composed, integrated and
published on the World Wide Web."

But comparing SKOS to other projects in Libraryland is liable to be
anything but quick, imho. There are other standard methods for
describing thesauri and vocabularies (Z39.19, ISO2788/5964, BS8723 --
and see http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/SWAD/thes_links.htm), but none that
I'm aware of that are as rdf-centric as SKOS.

Hope this gives you a better place to start,

Jon Phipps
Cornell University Library


On Mar 4, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote:


Greetings all:

Many thanks to all the presenters for a great conference!

One thing that people kept mentioning was SKOS.  That was a duhh point
for me; I just took a look at the w3.org and Wikipedia pages on it,
but
it doesn't look like something I can spend time trying to figure out
right now. Does anyone have a quick explanation comparing this to
other
projects/concepts in Libraryland?

Many thanks,

--
Yitzchak Schaffer
Systems Librarian
Touro College Libraries
33 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010
Tel (212) 463-0400 x230
Fax (212) 627-3197
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[CODE4LIB] SKOS?

[Yitzchak Schaffer]

Greetings all:

Many thanks to all the presenters for a great conference!

One thing that people kept mentioning was SKOS.  That was a duhh point
for me; I just took a look at the w3.org and Wikipedia pages on it, but
it doesn't look like something I can spend time trying to figure out
right now. Does anyone have a quick explanation comparing this to other
projects/concepts in Libraryland?

Many thanks,

--
Yitzchak Schaffer
Systems Librarian
Touro College Libraries
33 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010
Tel (212) 463-0400 x230
Fax (212) 627-3197
[EMAIL PROTECTED]