From announce at dublincore.net Sat Apr 4 07:56:59 2015 From: announce at dublincore.net (DCMI Announce) Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 04:56:59 -0700 Subject: [sigCR] =?utf-8?q?Deadline=3A_11_April_-_Call_for_Participation?= =?utf-8?q?=2C_DC-2015_in_S=C3=A3o_Paulo=2C_Brazil?= Message-ID: *Apologies for cross-posting* *DCMI 20th Anniversary International Conference & Annual Meeting* *September 1-4, 2015 ? S?o Paulo, Brazil* *"Metadata and Ubiquitous Access to Culture, Science and Digital Humanities"* *Technical Program Deadlines: * *Peer-Reviewed Papers, Project Reports & Posters* --EXTENDED Submission Deadline: 11 April 2015 --Author Notification: 23 June 2015 --Final Copy: 28 July 2015 *Professional Program Deadlines* *Special & Panel Sessions* --EXTENDED Proposal Deadline: 11 April 2015 --Author Notification: 25 April 2015 *Best Practice Posters & Demonstrations* --Submission Deadline: 14 July 2015 --Author Notification: Ongoing ================= *Conference Website:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2015 *Call for Participation:* http://purl.org/dcevents/dc-2015/cfp *Track Policies:* http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/dc-2015/schedConf/trackPolicies ================= Join us in S?o Paulo, Brazil Each of the past 20 years, the metadata community has gathered for DCMI's conference and annual meeting. The work agenda of the DCMI community is broad and inclusive of all aspects of innovation in metadata design, implementation and best practices. While the work of the Initiative progresses throughout the year, the annual meeting and conference provide the opportunity for DCMI "citizens" as well as newcomers, students, apprentices, and early career professionals to gather face-to-face to share experiences and knowledge. In addition, the gathering provides public- and private-sector initiatives beyond DCMI that are doing significant metadata work to come together to compare notes and cast a broader light into their particular metadata work silos. Through such a gathering of the metadata communities, DCMI advances its "first goal" of promoting metadata interoperability and harmonization. This year, the annual meeting and conference are being hosted by the Universidade Estadual Paulista--S?o Paulo State University (UNESP) and held in S?o Paulo, Brazil. ================= *CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:* --Universidade Estadual Paulista --S?o Paulo State University (UNESP) --Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) ================= *CONFERENCE CHAIRS:* --Silvana Borsetti Gregorio Vidotti, Professor Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil --Pl?cida Santos, Professor & Conference Chair Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil --Fl?via Maria Bastos, CGB Coordinator General Coordination of Libraries Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Brazil --Mariana Curado Malta, Chair, Program Committee CEISE/ISCAP - Polytechnic of Oporto, Portugal Algoritmi Center - University of Minho, Portugal From richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Fri Apr 10 10:21:52 2015 From: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:21:52 +0200 Subject: [sigCR] ACM MEDES 2015: Call for papers/tracks/workshops/tutorials (Sao Paulo, Brazil) Message-ID: * Please distribute widely and accept our apologies for cross-posting * The 7th International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective Intelligence in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2015) In-Cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGAPP and IFIP WG 2.6 http://sigappfr.acm.org/MEDES/15/ October 25-29, 2015 Caraguatatuba, Sao Paulo, Brazil Description and Objectives --------------------------- In the world of the Internet of Things (IoT), the rapid growth and exponential use of digital components leads to the emergence of intelligent environments namely "digital ecosystems" connected to the web and composed of multiple and independent entities such as individuals, organizations, services, software and applications sharing one or several missions and focusing on the interactions and inter-relationships among them. With the help of the computational intelligence, these digital ecosystems can exhibit new self-* properties (such as self-management, self-healing and self-configuration) environments, thanks to the re-combination and evolution of its "digital components", in which resources provided by each entity are properly conserved, managed and used. The underlying web-based resources mainly comprehend big data management, innovative services, smart and self-* properties platforms. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of digital ecosystems, they are highly complex to study and design. This also leads to a poor understanding as to how managing resources will empower digital ecosystems to be innovative, intelligent and value-creating. The application of Information Technologies has the potential to enable the understanding of how entities request resources and ultimately interact to create benefits and added-values, impacting business practices and knowledge. These technologies can be improved through novel techniques, models and methodologies for fields such as big data management, web technologies, networking, security, human-computer interactions, artificial intelligence, e-services and self-organizing systems to support the establishment of digital ecosystems and manage their resources. The International ACM Conference on Management of computational and collective IntElligence in Digital EcoSystems (MEDES) aims to develop and bring together a diverse community from academia, research laboratories and industry interested in exploring the manifold challenges and issues related to resource management of Digital Ecosystems and how current approaches and technologies can be evolved and adapted to this end. Topics ------- MEDES 2015 seeks contributions in the following areas: 1. Digital Ecosystem Infrastructure 2. Green computing 3. Computational and Collective Intelligence 4. Services 5. Trust, Security & Privacy 6. Data & Knowledge Management 7. Internet of Things and Intelligent Web 8. Human-Computer Interaction 9. Networks and Protocols 10. Open Source Paper Submission ---------------- Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. The submitted paper should be at most 8 ACM single-space printed pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments. Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP. Workshop Proposal Submission ---------------------------- Proposals for Workshops that examine emerging, innovative, or otherwise provocative issues within the conference area are encouraged. Workshop proposals should include a 1-2 page summary of the topic and the names and affiliations of 3-4 chairs and program committee members who have made a commitment to participate. A mix of industry and academic panel members is recommended. In the page summary, the organizers should present clearly: - the motivation of the workshop and its relatedness to the topics of MEDES 2015, - the specific topics covered and possible application areas, - the reviewing process, and the expected number of participants, - if the same workshop has been organized before in MEDES or related conferences and why its continuation is needed. Special Track Proposal Submission --------------------------------- Special Track proposals for MEDES 2015 should include: - The title and brief technical description of the special track, specifying its goals and motivation. - A brief discussion of why the topic is of particular interest at this time. - A brief description of why and to whom the track is of interest, the special track audience, as well as the expected number of participants. - A list of (potential) members of the program committee (at least 50% have to be known and confirmed at the time of the proposal). Important Dates ---------------- - Paper Submission Deadline: May 15th, 2015 - Workshop and track proposal deadline: April 25th, 2015 - Notification of Acceptance: June 26th, 2015 - Camera Ready: July 03rd, 2015 - Paper Registration: July 09th, 2015 - Conference Dates: 25-29 October 2015 Keynote speakers ---------------- Nivio Ziviani, CEO, Zunnit Technologies, Brazil Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, UNICAMP, Brazil Mario A. Nascimento, University of Alberta, Canada Conference Chairs ---------------- Victor Pellegrini Mammana, CTI, Brazil Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Eduado Antonio Mondena, IFSP, Brazil Program Chairs ---------------- Agma Traina, Sao Paolo University, Brazil Oscar Salviano, CTI, Brazil Youakim Badr, INSA de Lyon, France Frederic Andres, NII, Japan International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Sat Apr 11 10:47:39 2015 From: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 16:47:39 +0200 Subject: [sigCR] CFP (Deadline Approaching): 11th Int. Conf. on AI Applications and Innovations (Biarritz-France) Message-ID: * Sorry for cross-posting * ************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************* The 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI'15) http://aiai2015.sigappfr.org/ September 14-17, 2015 Bayonne/Biarritz - France Description and Objectives --------------------------- The importance of Artificial Intelligence is underlined by the fact that it is nowadays being embraced by a vast majority of research fields across different disciplines, from Engineering Sciences to Economics and Medicine, as a means to tackle highly complicated and challenging computational as well as cognitive problems. Being one of the main streams of information processing, Artificial Intelligence may now offer solutions to such problems using advances and innovations from a wide range of sub-areas that induce thinking and reasoning in models and systems. The Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations Conference (AIAI) is a major technical event in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. The 11th AIAI Conference will be held in Biarritz-Anglet-Bayonne (BAB) in France, from September 14th to 17th 2015. Its general focus is to present different perspectives on how Artificial Intelligence may be applied and offer solutions to real world problems, serving the study, analysis and modelling of theoretical and practical issues. The primary target of AIAI is to present highly novel research papers describing innovative algorithms, systems, tools and techniques, as well as proposing advanced prototypes in the area of Artificial Intelligence. General survey papers indicating future directions and professional work-in-progress reports are of equal interest. Acceptance will be based on quality, originality and practical merit of the work. AIAI is supported and sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Topics ------- AIAI 2015 seeks contributions in the following areas: - Theoretical Advances Machine Learning Adaptive Control Data Fusion Reasoning Methods Knowledge Acquisition and Representation Planning and Scheduling Artificial Neural Networks Expert Systems Fuzzy Logic and Systems Genetic Algorithms and Programming Particle Swarm Optimisation Bayesian Models - Knowledge Engineering Data Mining and Information Retrieval Decision Support Systems Knowledge Management for e-Learning and Enterprise Portals Intelligent Information Systems Web- and Knowledge-Based Information Systems Ontologies - Multimedia, Graphics and Artificial Intelligence Multimedia Computing Multimedia Ontologies Smart Graphics Colour/Image Analysis Speech Synthesis - Signal Processing Techniques and Knowledge Extraction Computer Vision Human-Machine Interaction / Presence Learning and Adaptive Systems Pattern Recognition Signal and Image Processing Speech and Natural Language Processing - Artificial Intelligence Applications eBusiness, eCommerce, eHealth, eLearning Engineering and Industry Environmental Modelling Finance Telecommunications - Transportation Crisis and Risk Management Medical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering Political Decision Making Natural Language Processing Planning and Resource Management Project Management Emerging Applications Forensic Science - Trends in Computing Accessibility and Computers Affective Computing Agent and Multi-Agent Systems Autonomous and Ubiquitous Computing Distributed AI Systems and Architectures Grid-Based Computing Intelligent Profiling and Personalisation Robotics and Virtual Reality - Other AI and Ethical Issues Evaluation of AI Systems Social Impact of AI Paper Submission ---------------- Authors are invited to electronically submit original, English-language research contributions no longer than 10 pages formatted according to the well known LNCS Springer style, or experience reports. Submitted papers must present unpublished work, not being considered for publication in other journals or conferences. Paper submission deadline is April 26th, 2015. Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers for quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. Notification and reviews will be communicated via email. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and included in the proceedings, which will be published by SPRINGER and they will be available on site. At least, one author must register and attend the conference to present the paper. Proceedings will be published by Springer in IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Series and indexed by major indexes. Paper submission is available online via: EasyChair for AIAI 2015 website. Important Dates ---------------- - Submission Deadline: April 26th, 2015 - Notification of Acceptance: May 29th, 2015 - Camera Ready: June 15th, 2015 - Paper Registration: June 17th, 2015 - Conference Dates: 14-17 September 2015 Special issues and Journal Publication --------------------------------------- Extended versions of selected papers will be published in several peer reviewed journals, such as: - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering - International Journal of Neural Systems General Chairs --------------------- - Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Adour Countries, France - Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Program Chairs ----------------------- - Ilias Maglogiannis, University of the Piraeus, Greece - Reda ElHajj, University of Calgary, Canada International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From announce at dublincore.net Sun Apr 5 09:49:58 2015 From: announce at dublincore.net (DCMI Announce) Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 06:49:58 -0700 Subject: [sigCR] DCMI Webinar: Andreas Rauber on making dynamic data citable--recommendations of the RDA Working Group Message-ID: *** Apologies for cross-posting *** *DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar:* *Approaches to Making Dynamic Data Citable: Recommendations of the RDA Working Group* ================== *DAY:* 8 April 2015 *TIME:* 10:00am-11:15am EDT (UTC 14:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/Webinar-Andreas_Rauber) *REGISTRATION:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2015rauber ================== *Webinar Abstract: * Being able to reliably and efficiently identify entire or subsets of data in large and dynamically growing or changing datasets constitutes a significant challenge for a range of research domains. In order to repeat an earlier study, to apply data from an earlier study to a new model, we need to be able to precisely identify the very subset of data used. While verbal descriptions of how the subset was created (e.g. by providing selected attribute ranges and time intervals) are hardly precise enough and do not support automated handling, keeping redundant copies of the data in question does not scale up to the big data settings encountered in many disciplines today. Furthermore, we need to be able to handle situations where new data gets added or existing data gets corrected or otherwise modified over time. Conventional approaches, such as assigning persistent identifiers to entire data sets or individual subsets or data items, are thus not sufficient. In this webinar, Andreas Rauber will review the challenges identified above and discuss solutions that are currently elaborated within the context of the working group of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) on Data Citation: Making Dynamic Data Citeable. The approach is based on versioned and time-stamped data sources, with persistent identifiers being assigned to the time-stamped queries/expressions that are used for creating the subset of data. We will further review results from the first pilots evaluating the approach. *Presenter:* *Andreas Rauber* is Associate Professor at the Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems (IFS) at the Vienna University of Technology (TU-Wien). He furthermore is president of AARIT, the Austrian Association for Research in IT and a Key Researcher at Secure Business Austria (SBA-Research). He is co-chairing the RDA Working Group on Data Citation together with Ari Asmi and Dieter van Uytvanck. He received his MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology in 1997 and 2000, respectively. In 2001 he joined the National Research Council of Italy ([http://www.cnr.it/sitocnr/home.html CNR]) in Pisa as an ERCIM Research Fellow, followed by an ERCIM Research position at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), at Rocquencourt, France, in 2002. From 2004-2008 he was also head of the iSpaces] research group at the eCommerce Competence Center (ec3). From announce at dublincore.net Thu Apr 16 13:20:03 2015 From: announce at dublincore.net (DCMI Announce) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 10:20:03 -0700 Subject: [sigCR] DCMI/ASIS&T Webinar: "From 0 to 60 on SPARQL queries in 50 minutes" Message-ID: ******************Please excuse the cross postings****************** *DCMI/ASIST Joint Webinar: * *From 0 to 60 on SPARQL queries in 50 minutes* ==================================================================== *:: Presenter:* Ethan Gruber *:: Date:* Wednesday, 13 May 2015 *:: Time:* 10:00am-11:15am EDT (UTC 14:00 - World Clock: http://bit.ly/Webinar-Ethan_Gruber) *:: Free Registration:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2015gruber ==================================================================== *ABOUT THE WEBINAR:* This webinar provides an introduction to SPARQL, a query language for RDF. Users will gain hands on experience crafting queries, starting simply, but evolving in complexity. These queries will focus on coinage data in the SPARQL endpoint hosted by http://nomisma.org: numismatic concepts defined in a SKOS-based thesaurus and physical specimens from three major museum collections (American Numismatic Society , British Museum , and M?nzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin ) linked to these concepts. Results generated from these queries in the form of CSV may be imported directly into Google Fusion Tables for immediate visualization in the form of charts and maps. *Redux:* This webinar was first presented as a training session in the LODLAM Training Day at SemTech2014. *SPEAKER:* *Ethan Gruber* is the Web and Database Developer for the American Numismatic Society (ANS). With almost ten years of experience in digital humanities and cultural heritage Web development projects, Ethan is responsible for developing a new public interface for the society's collections of objects and archives. He is the chief architect of Numishare , an open-source framework for delivering coin collections online and various ANS projects which implement this software: Online Coins of the Roman Empire and Coin Hoards of the Roman Republic. For more information and to register FREE, visit the event webpage: http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2015gruber From richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr Fri Apr 24 12:12:16 2015 From: richard.chbeir at u-bourgogne.fr (Richard Chbeir) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 18:12:16 +0200 Subject: [sigCR] CFP (Extended Deadline): 11th Int. Conf. on AI Applications and Innovations (Biarritz-France) Message-ID: * Sorry for cross-posting * Due to several requests, the submission deadline has been extended to May 10th, 2015. ************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************* The 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI'15) http://aiai2015.sigappfr.org/ September 14-17, 2015 Bayonne/Biarritz - France Description and Objectives --------------------------- The importance of Artificial Intelligence is underlined by the fact that it is nowadays being embraced by a vast majority of research fields across different disciplines, from Engineering Sciences to Economics and Medicine, as a means to tackle highly complicated and challenging computational as well as cognitive problems. Being one of the main streams of information processing, Artificial Intelligence may now offer solutions to such problems using advances and innovations from a wide range of sub-areas that induce thinking and reasoning in models and systems. The Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations Conference (AIAI) is a major technical event in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. The 11th AIAI Conference will be held in Biarritz-Anglet-Bayonne (BAB) in France, from September 14th to 17th 2015. Its general focus is to present different perspectives on how Artificial Intelligence may be applied and offer solutions to real world problems, serving the study, analysis and modelling of theoretical and practical issues. The primary target of AIAI is to present highly novel research papers describing innovative algorithms, systems, tools and techniques, as well as proposing advanced prototypes in the area of Artificial Intelligence. General survey papers indicating future directions and professional work-in-progress reports are of equal interest. Acceptance will be based on quality, originality and practical merit of the work. AIAI is supported and sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Topics ------- AIAI 2015 seeks contributions in the following areas: - Theoretical Advances Machine Learning Adaptive Control Data Fusion Reasoning Methods Knowledge Acquisition and Representation Planning and Scheduling Artificial Neural Networks Expert Systems Fuzzy Logic and Systems Genetic Algorithms and Programming Particle Swarm Optimisation Bayesian Models - Knowledge Engineering Data Mining and Information Retrieval Decision Support Systems Knowledge Management for e-Learning and Enterprise Portals Intelligent Information Systems Web- and Knowledge-Based Information Systems Ontologies - Multimedia, Graphics and Artificial Intelligence Multimedia Computing Multimedia Ontologies Smart Graphics Colour/Image Analysis Speech Synthesis - Signal Processing Techniques and Knowledge Extraction Computer Vision Human-Machine Interaction / Presence Learning and Adaptive Systems Pattern Recognition Signal and Image Processing Speech and Natural Language Processing - Artificial Intelligence Applications eBusiness, eCommerce, eHealth, eLearning Engineering and Industry Environmental Modelling Finance Telecommunications - Transportation Crisis and Risk Management Medical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering Political Decision Making Natural Language Processing Planning and Resource Management Project Management Emerging Applications Forensic Science - Trends in Computing Accessibility and Computers Affective Computing Agent and Multi-Agent Systems Autonomous and Ubiquitous Computing Distributed AI Systems and Architectures Grid-Based Computing Intelligent Profiling and Personalisation Robotics and Virtual Reality - Other AI and Ethical Issues Evaluation of AI Systems Social Impact of AI Paper Submission ---------------- Authors are invited to electronically submit original, English-language research contributions no longer than 10 pages formatted according to the well known LNCS Springer style, or experience reports. Submitted papers must present unpublished work, not being considered for publication in other journals or conferences. Paper submission deadline is April 26th, 2015. Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format and should be uploaded using the conference website. Submitted papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers for quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. Notification and reviews will be communicated via email. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and included in the proceedings, which will be published by SPRINGER and they will be available on site. At least, one author must register and attend the conference to present the paper. Proceedings will be published by Springer in IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Series and indexed by major indexes. Paper submission is available online via: EasyChair for AIAI 2015 website. Important Dates ---------------- - Submission Deadline: May 10th, 2015 - Notification of Acceptance: June 05th, 2015 - Camera Ready: June 15th, 2015 - Paper Registration: June 17th, 2015 - Conference Dates: 14-17 September 2015 Special issues and Journal Publication --------------------------------------- Extended versions of selected papers will be published in several peer reviewed journals, such as: - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering - International Journal of Neural Systems General Chairs --------------------- - Richard Chbeir, University of Pau and Adour Countries, France - Yannis Manolopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Program Chairs ----------------------- - Ilias Maglogiannis, University of the Piraeus, Greece - Reda ElHajj, University of Calgary, Canada International Program Committee: -------------------------------- (Please check the web site for the full list) From L.Will at willpowerinfo.co.uk Wed Apr 22 17:28:31 2015 From: L.Will at willpowerinfo.co.uk (Leonard Will) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 22:28:31 +0100 Subject: [sigCR] =?utf-8?q?ISKO_UK_BIENNIAL_CONFERENCE_=E2=80=93_13/14_Jul?= =?utf-8?q?y_2015__-_Early_Bird_discounts_end_30th_April?= In-Reply-To: <551138BE.7010407@lukehouse.org> References: <551138BE.7010407@lukehouse.org> Message-ID: <5538127F.4010303@willpowerinfo.co.uk> Dear colleagues, Don't forget 30th April is the deadline for early bird discounts on: *Knowledge Organization ? Making a difference. **ISKO UK BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ? 13/14 July 2015, London * Details at: http://www.iskouk.org/content/knowledge-organization-making-difference Registration at: https://www.conftool.net/iskouk2015/ This conference aims to explore, justify and proclaim the continuing demand for Knowledge Organization (KO). It will be a showcase for R & D that offers benefits for cultural activities and economic development, and an opportunity to consider the impact that KO has had, is having and will have. *Who should attend* This conference caters amply for practitioners alongside theoreticians, including consultants, researchers, teachers and students. Knowledge Organization is useful to systems designers as well as information managers, with applications in areas as diverse as web design, records management, digital libraries and asset management, network management, etc. Sharing ideas is the way to advance your own thinking ? do come and join the discussions! *Some highlights* ?As Keynote speakers we have*Alan Gilchrist* and *Dagobert Soergel*, both influential writers and speakers in our field. While Gilchrist reflects on the advances already achieved through KO, Soergel looks to a future in which KO structures enable connections, inferencing, understanding and exploiting information. ?*Patrick Lambe*, already a popular speaker at our past conferences, returns to urge a proactive role for KO professionals in designing and developing networked knowledge environments. He will also facilitate an *interactive fishbowl session* for all of us to discuss what we can do in the workplace to implement KO effectively and raise its profile. ** ?Joining us from the USA,*Joseph Busch* will share his extensive consultancy experience in applying classification principles both in-house and on the Web. ??Using Knowledge Organization Systems requires proper tools to manage them? is the declaration of *Johannes Keizer* and *Caterina Caracciolo* from the FAO , where the AGRIS database has evolved to become a KOS-based Linked Open Data web application underpinned by VocBench, a state of the art editor for KOS enabling automatic alignment of vocabularies. There are many more speakers in the provisional programme at http://www.iskouk.org/content/knowledge-organization-making-difference, where you can also find details such as venue and registration fees. To make a booking you will need to go to https://www.conftool.net/iskouk2015/ and set up a user account. The early bird discount applies until 30^th April, so don?t delay in booking your place! On behalf of ISKO UK, I look forward to seeing you there, Leonard Will ISKO UK www.iskouk.org ************** More background* ISKO is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with a mission to promote the theory and practice of organizing knowledge and information. The emphasis in our UK Chapter is on building bridges between the research and practitioner communities, for example at our regular and very popular afternoon meetings. You can see past and future events at Our Events , together with slides and sound recordings for most presentations. The proceedings (including slides, papers and audio) of our previous biennial conferences are available there too; see for example http://www.iskouk.org/content/isko-uk-conference-2013-knowledge-organization-pushing-boundaries. ************** From jenserikmai at gmail.com Sun Apr 26 03:43:51 2015 From: jenserikmai at gmail.com (Jens-Erik Mai) Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 09:43:51 +0200 Subject: [sigCR] Global and local knowlege organization Message-ID: <2C07DE2E-036B-4D9E-8540-F6283191FDCE@gmail.com> Global and local knowlege organization Please join us for a one day conference about the tension between globalized information infrastructures and localized meaning-meaning. Attendance is free-of-charge - but registration is required. What: Glocal KO When: Wednesday Aug. 12, 2015 Where: Hotel Kong Arthur, Copenhagen Info: http://www.glocalko.info Questions? Ask: Jens-Erik Mai @ bsh146 at iva.ku.dk See you! Jens-Erik ------------------------------------- Jens-Erik Mai Professor University of Copenhagen Information Studies http://jenserikmai.info From jqin at syr.edu Tue Apr 28 22:07:33 2015 From: jqin at syr.edu (Jian Qin) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 02:07:33 +0000 Subject: [sigCR] NKOS Workshop at International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL), 2015-12-09, Seoul, Korea In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *** Apologies for cross-posting *** Progress in NKOS: The First NKOS Workshop at ICADL Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) is an active research area highly relevant to the development of digital libraries and services. NKOS workshops have been routinely held with the Joint Conference on Digital Library (JCDL), European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL), and the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) (see NKOS website for details). This proposal will mark for the first time an NKOS workshop to be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) http://icadl2015.org/ . A full-day workshop will be organized to report and discuss recent studies and projects related to the research and development of knowledge organization systems/services (KOS). It will take place at Seoul, Korea, December 9, 2015, the day before the main ICADL conference. The workshop is to provide an exchange platform for the Asian NKOS community as well as NKOS communities around the world to share their common research interest and define future KOS research agenda. The focus of the workshop will be on the principles and applications of KOS such as classification systems, thesauri, lexical databases, value lists, taxonomies, and ontologies. Workshop participants are expected to share their experience on various stages of KOS development and demonstrate practical KOS applications in real-world environments. Important Dates: Submission deadline: August 1, 2015 Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2015 Workshop date: December 9, 2015 Call for Presentation Proposals: The workshop will accept two types of presentations: a) full presentations (typically 20 minutes plus discussion time) on work related to the themes of the workshop, b) short presentations: A short 5 minute project presentation, with an optional poster or demonstration, that aims to present current on-going projects relevant to NKOS. Please email proposals (maximum 1000 words for full presentations and 500 words for short presentations, including presentation title, project description, goals & methods, main findings and underlying work, to Professor Xia Lin (xlin at drexel.edu). Proposals will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. At least one presentation author must register for the workshop. After the workshop, copies of presentations will be made available on the NKOS website. Presentations from the workshop may be submitted as extended papers for peer reviewed journal publication. Themes for the first Asian-NKOS workshop include, but not limit to, the following: Linked Data vocabulary projects and issues (e.g. standards and interoperability, etc.) Meaningful Concept Displays and KOS Visualization. KOS services for multilingual systems or vocabulary exchanges Applications of KOS systems in specific domains such as arts, museums, environmental, or medical domains. Standards and quality issues of KOS. KOS data structures, systems, and technical infrastructures. Construction of multilingual KOS and ontologies, manually or automatically. KOS publishing using SKOS, OWL, and delivering with RDF datasets and SPARQL endpoints. Users interaction with KOS in real-world applications and systems. Evaluation of KOS systems and applications. 1) KOS for data curation and data repositories. Workshop Organizers ? Xia Lin, College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, USA ? Jian Qin, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, USA ? Marcia Lei Zeng, School of Library and Information Science, Ken State University, USA Program Committee ? Gail Hodge, Information International Associates, Inc., USA ? Wei Liu, Shanghai Library, China ? Ying-Hsang Liu, Charles Sturt University, Australia ? Philipp Mayr, GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany ? Sam Oh, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea ? Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba, Japan ? Douglas Tudhope, University of South Wales, UK ? Maja ?umer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia