[Asis-l] Fwd: CFP: 4th European NKOS WORKSHOP at ECDL 2005, September 22, Vienna

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 I thought some of you might be interested in this upcoming meeting.  Please feel free to distribute it to other lists or to your colleagues particularly those in Europe. -- Gail
 
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From: Tudhope D S (Comp) <dstudhope at GLAM.AC.UK>
To: NKOS at dli2.nsf.gov
Sent: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:32:27 +0100
Subject: CFP: 4th European NKOS WORKSHOP at ECDL 2005, September 22, Vienna


Call for Presentations and Participation
4th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop 
ECDL2005 September 22 Vienna 

Mapping Knowledge Organisation Systems: User-centred Strategies 

An NKOS Workshop will take place on September 22nd, as part of ECDL 2005 in 
Vienna. Proposals are invited for presentations (20 minutes) on work or projects 
related to the themes of the workshop or to NKOS more generally. Presentations 
from the Workshop may be selected for consideration in a forthcoming (early 
2006) NKOS special issue of the journal New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia. 


Please email proposals (approx 500 words including aims, methods, main findings) 
by June 20 to Douglas Tudhope. Advance indication that you intend to submit 
would be helpful. Proposals will be peer-reviewed by the program committee and 
notification of acceptance will be given by July 15. After the workshop, copies 
of presentations will be made available on this website. 
See attached pdf for full details or visit the workshop website: 
http://www2.db.dk/nkos2005/ 

The workshop aims to address key challenges for KOS posed by the overlapping 
themes of 
 * User-centred design issues 
 * Mapping between different KOS 
 * KOS representations and service protocols 

However other topics can also be proposed. See below for indicative list of 
topics and provisional schedule. 

Main Contact: Douglas Tudhope, 
Hypermedia Research Unit, School of Computing, 
University of Glamorgan 
Pontypridd, CF37 1DL, Wales, UK 
Email: dstudhope at glam.ac.uk 
http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/staff/dstudhope 

Co-organiser: Marianne Lykke Nielsen, 
Department of Information Studies, Royal School of Library and Information 
Science, Aalborg Branch, Aalborg, Denmark 
E-mail: mln at db.dk
http://www2.db.dk/mln/ 

Background 
Knowledge Organization Systems, such as classifications, gazetteers, lexical 
databases, ontologies, taxonomies and thesauri, attempt to model the underlying 
semantic structure of a domain for the purposes of retrieval. New networked KOS 
services and applications are emerging and we have the opportunity to draw on a 
number of technologies that can be combined to yield new solutions. 

The workshop aims to address the following key themes: 
 * User-centred design issues - User-centred design strategies for KOS. How to 
develop understandable and thorough descriptions of concepts and terms? How to 
show and explain relationships? The challenge is to find the appropriate level 
of explanation, clarity and conciseness. 
 * Mapping between different KOS - How to achieve semantic interoperability? 
Cross-browsing and cross-searching between distributed KOS services. Mapping 
between terms, classes, systems and types of KOS. Innovative visualization 
methods to support KOS development and mapping. 
 * KOS representations and service protocols - A basic infrastructure is needed 
to provide protocols for networked, programmatic access to a variety of 
vocabularies for different end users and applications. These require standard 
representations in formats such as RDF/XML. What is the appropriate granularity 
of base services to apply in evolving Web/Grid environments? 

Other topics for presentations can also be proposed.

Program committee 
Hanne Albrechtsen, Risø National Laboratory, Denmark 
Stella Dextre Clarke, Luke House, Wantage, United Kingdom 
Ron Davies, Information Consultant, Brussels, Belgium 
Lois Delcambre, Computer Science Department, Portland State University, USA 
Martin Doerr, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and 
Technology, Greece 
Traugott Koch, Knowledge Technologies Group, Lund University, Sweden 
Alistair Miles, CCLRC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom 
Dagobert Soergel, University of Maryland, USA 
Diane Vizine-Goetz, OCLC Research, USA 
Marcia Zeng, Kent State University, USA 
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