[Sigcr-l] 9th NKOS workshop (US-based) materials available online

[ZENG, MARCIA]

 A Joint CENDI/NKOS Workshop Knowledge Organization Systems: Managing Toward the Future, hosted by The National Agricultural Library, was held on October 22, 2009 at Beltsville, MD.  Presentation materials are available at: http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/2009workshop/NKOS-CENDI2009.htm or through http://nkos.slis.kent.edu<http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/>
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Presentations include:
Session I: TOWARD A SHARED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT (Moderator: Lori Finch, NAL)
Sharing Terminologies Through Registries: Contributed Controlled Vocabularies (Marjorie Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc.)
The EPA Terminology Services: Toward Better Terminology Management and Use (Michael Pendleton, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
Subject Matter Expert Thesaurus Review: Improving Collaboration with Researchers (Gail Rayburn, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)

Session II: TOWARD INTEROPERABILITY (Moderator: Marjorie Hlava, Access Innovations)
Interoperable Thesauri: The Challenges and Experiences of the HIVE Project (Jane Greenberg, Univ. of North Carolina, School of Library and Information Science)
ISO 25964: Thesauri and Interoperability with Other Vocabularies (Marcia Lei Zeng, Kent State Univ.)
Dublin Core application profiles in context (Thomas Baker, DCMI)
Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) Update and Implementation at the Library of Congress (Ed Summers and Rebecca Guenther, Library of Congress)

Session III: TOWARD ONTOLOGIES AND THE SEMANTIC WEB (Moderator: Michael Pendleton, EPA)
Evaluating Ontology Alignment Techniques (Willem Robert van Hage, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
NCI Thesaurus: Managing Toward an Ontology (Gilberto Fragoso, EVS Infrastructure, National Cancer Institute/NIH)
Ontology Summit Review 2008-2009 (Denise Bedford, The World Bank)
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This is the ninth workshop on KOS-related topics sponsored by NKOS<http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/index.html> in the U.S. since 1998.

CENDI (www.cendi.gov<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.
See also The 8th European NKOS Workshop materials (held at ECDL Conference, Corfu, Greece, Thursday, October 1st 2009) http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/research/hypermedia/nkos/nkos2009/