[sigCR] FW: Call for Papers: Special Issue on Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS)

[ZENG, MARCIA]

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Networked Knowledge Organization Systems
(NKOS)
To be published in the International Journal on Digital Libraries
<http://www.springer.com/799>
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>Important Dates
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>Paper Submission deadline: January 5, 2015
>First notification: March 31, 2015
>Revision submission: May 31, 2015
>Second notification: July 31, 2015
>Final version submission: September 1, 2015
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>Guest Editors
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>- Philipp Mayr, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences,
>Germany (contact person)
>- Douglas Tudhope, Hypermedia Research Unit, Faculty of Computing,
>Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, UK
>- Xia Lin, College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel
>University,Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
>- Stella Dextre Clarke, Information Consultant and Chair, ISKO UK, Luke
>House, UK
>- Marcia Lei Zeng, School of Library and Information Science, Kent State
>University, Ohio, USA
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>Description & Objectives
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>Since 1998, NKOS as a community has been concerned with discussion of the
>different ways knowledge organization systems (KOS), such as
>classification systems, thesauri, gazetteers, and ontologies, can act as
>networked interactive information services that support the description
>and retrieval of diverse information resources through the Internet. KOS
>model the underlying semantic structure of a domain for information
>retrieval purposes. Embodied as Web-based 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).
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>Today, KOS play a crucial role in digital information management and
>applications generally. Carrying semantics in a well-controlled and
>documented way, KOS serve a variety of important functions: tools for
>representation and indexing of information and documents, knowledge-based
>support to information searchers, semantic road maps to domains and
>disciplines, communication tool by providing conceptual framework, and
>conceptual basis for knowledge based systems, e.g. automated
>classification systems.
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>NKOS workshops (http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/) have focused discussion
>(amongst other topics) on early drafts of BSI and ISO KOS standards, the
>W3C SKOS standard, the interface between traditional Library Science
>vocabularies and Semantic Web efforts, KOS linked data, mapping and
>linking between vocabularies, meaningful concept display and
>visualization, KOS-based user interfaces and user evaluation, social
>tagging and its relation to established vocabularies, KOS metadata and
>the different types of KOS.
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>This focused issue arises from topics covered by the NKOS workshop series
>but invites submissions from all researchers in the general area. All
>submissions within the broad NKOS/KOS scope are welcome; the special
>issue calls for papers by KOS researchers and developers from different
>perspectives, such as KOS design and construction, API and service
>developers, retrieval-support implementations, user-oriented issues,
>management of KOS in registries, etc.
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>This special issue will solicit high quality papers that demonstrate
>exceptional achievements on KOS, including but not limited to:
>*             Mapping between KOS Linked Data vocabularies
>*             Meaningful Concept Display and Meaningful Visualization of
>KOS
>*             Applications of KOS systems in relation to 'Big data'
>*             KOS-based recommender systems for suggestion of meaningful
>concepts.
>*             KOS in e-Research metadata contexts - intersection between
>research data, KOS and the Semantic Web.
>*             Management and integration of multiple vocabulary types
>*             SKOS extensions
>*             Social tagging. The role of social tagging and informal
>knowledge structures versus established KOS.
>*             Users' interaction with KOS in the online environment.
>*             Quality issues in web-based KOS. Issues concerning large
>metadata sets. Version management.
>*             KOS and learning. The requirement for using KOS effectively
>to convey meaning, to assist users expressing their information needs,
>and to 	facilitate in sense making and learning.
>*             Multilingual and Interdisciplinary KOS applications and
>tools.
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>Submission Details
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>Papers submitted to this special issue for possible publication must be
>original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other
>journal or conference. Previously published or accepted conference papers
>must contain at least 30% new material to be considered for the special
>issue. All papers are to be submitted by referring to
>http://www.springer.com/799. At the beginning of the submission, under
>"Article Type", please select the appropriate special issue. All
>manuscripts must be prepared according to the journal publication
>guidelines which can also be found on the website provided above or here
><https://www.editorialmanager.com/ijdl/>. Papers will be reviewed
>following the journal standard review process.
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>Please address inquiries to philipp.mayr at gesis.org.
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>Dr. Philipp Mayr
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>GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
>Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8,  D-50667 Köln, Germany
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