[Sigcr-l] OCLC / ISKO-NA Preconference: Everything Need Not Be Miscellaneous: Controlled Vocabularies and Classification in a Web World

[Rebecca Green]

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5 August 2008

OCLC / ISKO-NA Preconference to 10th biennial ISKO Conference:
Everything Need Not Be Miscellaneous: Controlled Vocabularies and
Classification in a Web World
Sponsored by OCLC, ISKO-NA and Université de Montréal

Room S1-151
Pavillon Jean-Coutu located on the Université de Montréal (UdeM) campus
Montréal (Québec, Canada).

10.15-5.30 (onsite registration: 9.30-10.15)
Preregistration ($65) through main conference website:
http://www.gin-ebsi.umontreal.ca/isko/registration.aspx

Presentations:

SKOS and Its Application in Transferring Traditional Thesauri into Networked
Knowledge Organization Systems
Marcia Lei Zeng (Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Kent
State University)

Introducing SKOS and discussing its applications in transferring the largest
controlled vocabulary in China, the Chinese Classified Thesaurus (CCT), into
a SKOS-based knowledge organization system (KOS), the speaker will discuss
the conceptual models of concept-based and term-based systems, the
converting approaches and challenges, and the potential usage of a KOS
registry built on SKOS and other Web-based protocols and technologies.

Presentation based on a paper co-authored with Wei Fan (Graduate Student,
National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)

SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization Systems) as a Tool for Releasing the
Value of Controlled Vocabularies through OCLC's Terminology Services.
Diane Vizine-Goetz, (Consulting Research Scientist, OCLC Research)
Michael Panzer (Global Taxonomy Product Manager, OCLC)

OCLC Research has developed a group of experimental Web Services for
controlled vocabularies. This presentation will provide an overview and
update on the various machine-readable representations (including SKOS) and
services which OCLC Research has developed and close with a report on
current activities to make the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) accessible
as Linked Data, including URI and web service design, issues arising from a
SKOS representation, integration into discovery tools, and the potential
value which may be gained from fully leveraging DDC in a Web 2.0 world.

FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology): a Vocabulary to
Facilitate Faceted Browsing
            Eric Childress (Consulting Project Manager, OCLC Research)

An overview of FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology), a facetted
vocabulary based on the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). The
presentation will include examples of the use of FAST for tag cloud
presentation and discuss its potential use in search interfaces which
support faceted browsing.

A Faceted Structure to Organize and Access Web Resources in Education
Michèle Hudon (Associate Professor, École de bibliothéconomie et des
sciences de l'information (EBSI), Université de Montréal)

Results of the third and last part of a project which focuses on Web-based
libraries in the field of Education. Discussion of the most interesting
characteristics of a newly developed faceted classification structure, and
description of significant problems encountered by our team of three people
during the design process.

Full conference programme available on website:
http://www.ebsi.umontreal.ca/isko2008/documents/programme.pdf.
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