[Asis-l] Announcement: NKOS Workshop on Building a Meaningful Web -- Discount for ASIST

[Richard Hill]

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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.

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