[Asis-l] Joint NKOS/CENDI Workshop on Knowledge Organization Systems Set for September 11

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PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT 

New Dimensions in Knowledge Organization Systems
A Joint NKOS/CENDI Workshop
The World Bank
Washington, DC
September 11, 2008

CENDI and the Networked Knowledge Organization Systems Working Group are
joining together to hold a workshop on Knowledge Organization Systems.
It will be hosted by the World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW, Washington DC on
September 11, 2008. The workshop will focus on advances in terminology
systems and services. It will cover aspects such as interoperability,
mapping, collaborative KOS development, metadata for terminology and
terminology resources, registries and standards.  The Knowledge
Organization Systems will cover a wide range from authority files to
formal ontologies. Speakers will represent government, academic and
commercial organizations from a variety of disciplines including
agriculture, the environment and biomedicine. 

Additional information regarding the program and registration will be
posted at http://www.cendi.gov/activities/events.html by July 30.

NKOS (http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/) is a community of more than 100
practitioners from more than 10 countries who are interested in the use
of knowledge organization systems in networked environments. This is the
eighth workshop on KOS related topics sponsored by NKOS since 1998. 

CENDI (http://www.cendi.gov/) is an interagency working group of senior
scientific and technical information managers from 13 U.S. federal
agencies. CENDI's mission is to help improve the productivity of federal
science- and technology-based programs through effective scientific,
technical and related information-support systems.  

Contact

Program Committee Chair
Gail Hodge
Information International Associates, Inc.
865-742-5430
ghodge at iiaweb.com   

Program Committee Members:
Denise Bedford, The World Bank
Marcia Lei Zeng, Kent State University
Jian Qin, Syracuse University
Diane Vizine-Goetz, OCLC

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