[Asis-l] cfp: New Applications of Knowledge Organization Systems

[Steve Hitchcock]

Call for Papers

Journal of Digital Information announces a Special Issue on
New Applications of Knowledge Organization Systems

Special issue Editors: Traugott Koch and Doug Tudhope
Lund University and University of Glamorgan

Submission deadline: 7 October 2003
Publication: January 2004

Submissions are sought for a special edition of JoDI on new applications 
and contexts for Knowledge Organisation Systems (KOS). This includes but is 
not restricted to novel applications and representations of KOS in advanced 
digital library (DL) and semantic Web environments.

This call builds on two recent NKOS workshops at JCDL 2003 in Houston, and 
ECDL 2003 in Trondheim. A number of submissions have already been committed 
based on presentations given at the workshops.

More generally, we welcome submissions that fit the scope of the call from 
all interested parties and communities. Articles from a previous NKOS issue 
(April 2001) rank among the most popular JoDI publications based on access 
statistics.

KOS services, such as classifications, gazetteers, lexical databases, 
ontologies, taxonomies and thesauri model the underlying semantic structure 
of a domain. Embodied as (Web) services, they can facilitate resource 
discovery and retrieval. They act as semantic road maps and make possible a 
common orientation by indexers and future users (whether human or machine). 
However, using them to their full potential in advanced DL and semantic Web 
applications poses various new challenges.

For more details, indicative topics and the submission procedure, see the 
full call
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/calls/newnkos.html
All submissions will be subject to peer review.

The Journal of Digital Information is an electronic journal published only 
via the Web. JoDI is currently free to all users thanks to support from the 
British Computer Society and Oxford University Press.
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

Steve Hitchcock
Web Development Editor, Journal of Digital Information
IAM Group, Department of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton SO17 1BJ,  UK
Email: sh94r at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tel:  +44 (0)23 8059 3256        Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 2865
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