From announce at dublincore.net Wed Mar 2 08:31:56 2016 From: announce at dublincore.net (DCMI Announce) Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 05:31:56 -0800 Subject: [Sigkm-l] DCMI Webinar Series: Generic Tools and Methods for SKOS-based Concept Schemes Message-ID: *******PLEASE EXCUSE THE CROSS-POSTING******* *DCMI/ASIST Joint Webinar Series in partnership with AIMS: Agricultural Information Management Standards* SKOS in Two Parts: Generic Tools and Methods for SKOS-based Concept Schemes *with Joachim Neubert (ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Germany) & Osma Suominen (National Library of Finland)* *====================================================* *:: Dates:* Wednesday, 16 March 2016 & Wednesday, 6 April 2016 *:: Time: * 10:00am - 11:15am EDT (UTC 14:00:00) *:: Registration Information: * http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2016neubert *====================================================* *ABOUT THE WEBINAR SERIES:* In the past seven years, SKOS has become a widely recognized and used common interchange format for thesauri, classifications, and other types of vocabularies. This has opened a huge opportunity for the development of generic tools and methods that should apply to all vocabularies that can be expressed in SKOS. While expensive, proprietary or custom-developed solutions aimed at one particular thesaurus or classification have been dominant, now more and more open source tools are being created to deal with various aspects of vocabulary management. In this series of two webinars with Joachim Neubert (ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Germany) and Osma Suominen (National Library of Finland), we start on 16 March 2016 with Webinar 1 by examining skos-history, a method and toolset to nail down changes in a vocabulary. We follow with Webinar 2 on 6 April 2016 focusing on Skosmos, a full-fledged web application for publishing SKOS vocabularies. *ABOUT WEBINAR 1 (16 March 2016):* Change Tracking in Knowledge Organization Systems with skos-history When a new version of a vocabulary is published, users want to know "What?s new?" and "What has changed?" Vocabulary managers had differing strategies to answer these questions—relying on internal logs of the vocabulary management system or the intellectual collection of changes deemed relevant. These methods generally are not available to third parties using a vocabulary, or for example are trying to keep vocabulary mappings up to date. Having vocabularies published in SKOS as RDF triples has changed this situation: Vocabularies can be compared algorithmically, and deltas between versions can be computed. This data can be loaded into a version store, and evaluated by SPARQL queries. Therefore, the published versions alone are sufficient to get the differences. The webinar will explain how you can create a version store, how skos-history interlinks versions and deltas, and how queries can get a grip on added or removed concepts, on changed notations, or on merges and splits of concepts. We will show how aggregated change information about a concept scheme can be obtained, and how the complete change history of a single concept across multiple versions can be traced. Finally, you will learn how you can adapt skos-history queries to the features of a particular concept scheme in which you are interested. *ABOUT WEBINAR 2 (6 April 2016):* Publishing SKOS Concept Schemes with Skosmos With more and more thesauri, classifications and other knowledge organization systems being published as Linked Data using SKOS, the question arises how best to make them available on the web. While just publishing the Linked Data triples is possible using a number of RDF publishing tools, those tools are not very well suited for SKOS data, because they cannot support term-based searching and lookup. This webinar presents Skosmos, an open source web-based SKOS vocabulary browser that uses a SPARQL endpoint as its back-end. It can be used by e.g. libraries and archives as a publishing platform for controlled vocabularies such as thesauri, lightweight ontologies, classifications and authority files. The Finnish national thesaurus and ontology service Finto, operated by the National Library of Finland, is built using Skosmos. Skosmos provides a multilingual user interface for browsing and searching the data and for visualizing concept hierarchies. The user interface has been developed by analyzing the results of repeated usability tests. All of the SKOS data is made available as Linked Data. A developer-friendly REST API is also available providing access for using vocabularies in other applications such as annotation systems. We will describe what kind of infrastructure is necessary for Skosmos and how to set it up for your own SKOS data. We will also present examples where Skosmos is being used around the world. *ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:* *Joachim Neubert* is a scientific software developer at the ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (http://www.zbw.eu). He published the STW Thesaurus for economics (http://zbw.eu/stw) and several other datasets as Linked Open Data. In 2009, he started the SWIB ? Semantic Web for Libraries conference and serves to date as co-chair of its programme committee. As an "invited expert", he took an active part in the Library Linked Data Incubator Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). His research interests include knowledge organization systems and authorities, linked data, and web-based information systems and applications, on which he reports once in a while on ZBW Labs (http://zbw.eu/labs). *Osma Suominen* is currently working as information systems specialist at the National Library of Finland. He is involved in publishing library data as Linked Data, maintaining the Finto.fi thesaurus and ontology service, and leading development of the Skosmos vocabulary browser used in Finto. He is currently also assisting FAO (UN), CABI (UK), and NAL (US) in creating a Global Agricultural Concept Scheme by merging their existing thesauri, using Linked Data tools and approaches. Osma Suominen earned his doctoral degree at Aalto University while doing research on semantic portals and quality of controlled vocabularies within the FinnONTO series of projects. His past accomplishments include the Skosify vocabulary analysis and quality improvement tool, and data.aalto.fi, the Linked Data service of Aalto University. *Registration:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2016neubert -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rhill at asis.org Thu Mar 17 13:46:25 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 13:46:25 -0400 Subject: [Sigkm-l] DEADLINES ASIS&T AM - Copenhagen, October 14-18 -- Deadlines Message-ID: <389-220163417174624999@LEN-dick-2011> Deadlines - Proposals Papers, April 17 Panels and Workshops, May 3 Posters, Videos and Demos, June 24 Join your colleagues from around the world at the first ASIS&T Annual Meeting outside North America ASIST AM 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 14-18, 2016 PLENARY speakers, are now on the web at https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual- meeting-2016/pleanary-speakers/ Greg Welch, Florida Hospital Endowed Chair in Healthcare Simulation, University of Central Florida Markus Bundschus, Roche Diagnostics, Head Scientific & Business Information Services CHECK AIRFARES: Right now Norwegian Air has round trip tickets from cities in the east, west and mid America for less than $600. http://www.norwegian.com/us?gclid=COK22NSWpcsCFVBZhgodj1wAFw DEADLINES Papers, April 17 Panels and Workshops, May 3 Posters, Videos and Demos, June 24 Camera-ready accepted panels and workshop descriptions are due: 25 July 2016 Posters Submission of posters due: 24 June 2016 Notifications regarding submitted posters: 30 July 2016 Camera-ready accepted posters are due: 10 August 2016 Submission site: https://www.conftool.pro/asist2016/ Final versions of accepted workshops and tutorials must be formatted according to guidelines provided at: https://www.asist.org/files/meetings/am16/AM16-Template-proceedings.pdf . Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From mcunha at ipca.pt Thu Mar 17 14:17:53 2016 From: mcunha at ipca.pt (Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 18:17:53 +0000 Subject: [Sigkm-l] CENTERIS - Int. Conf. on ENTERprise Information Systems * AIS affiliated conference * Porto, Portugal: Oct 5-7, 2016 Message-ID: <201603171825.u2HIPVtO006654@mail.asis.org> CENTERIS 2016 International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems http://centeris.scika.org An AIS affiliated conference Porto, Portugal October 5-7, 2016 Submission deadline: April 4, 2016 ---------- It is our great pleasure to invite you to CENTERIS - International Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems, an AIS Affiliated Conference, which will be held in Porto, one of the most beautiful cities in Portugal and Europe (Porto's historical centre is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site). ---------- ---------- Important dates Submission deadline: April 4, 2016 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 22, 2016 Final Submission due date: June 11, 2016 ---------- ---------- Submission types and guidelines Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their manuscript electronically at the Conference webpage (http://centeris.scika.org) until April 4, 2016. Submissions can be made as full papers, short papers, poster papers and industry papers, and must strictly follow the submission guidelines available at the webpage: - A full paper corresponds to a completed or finished research, including the discussion of research results (a full paper should have between six and eight pages, considering the template and the guidelines provided at the conference webpage); - A short paper introduces preliminary results of ongoing research (a short paper should be between four to six pages in length); - A poster paper introduces initial research, ideas, and models at a discussion phase (a poster paper should be three pages in length); - An industry paper presents practical approaches to research, applications, tools, solutions, etc., aligned with the conference scope and topics (its page length can vary between four and six pages). All conference submissions will be double-blind and peer-to-peer reviewed. ---------- ---------- Proceedings and publications Only original contributions will be accepted. Papers must not have been published before, and not be under review for any other conference or publication. All papers accepted as full or short papers will be published in the conference proceedings to be published by Elsevier as a Procedia Computer Science volume (which is indexed by Scopus and ISI Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index) and will be available on Sciverse ScienceDirect. Poster papers and industry papers will be published in a conference book of abstracts, industry and poster papers (with ISBN). Authors of selected papers will be invited to extend the paper for publication in international journals and in edited books. 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Learn more http://visitporto.travel https://www.visitportugal.com/en/destinos/porto-e-norte http://www.visitporto.travel/Visitar/Paginas/default.aspx Promotional webpages about Porto and the North of Portugal provided by the ?Porto and the North of Portugal Promotion Bureau?. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUIH2wluFMc Oportonity City / Porto / Norte Portugal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aev5UQExuP4 Porto - European Best Destination 2014 From rhill at asis.org Fri Mar 25 09:22:10 2016 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 09:22:10 -0400 Subject: [Sigkm-l] Survey re: ASIS&T Webinars Message-ID: <389-22016352513221078@LEN-dick-2011> (Apologies for cross posting) The webinars by the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) connect information professionals across fields and disciplines and provide ongoing professional development and educational opportunities to both ASIS&T members and non-members. The list of the past and upcoming ASIS&T webinars can be found here: https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/. I n our continuous effort to improve the relevance and quality of the offered webinars, we are conducting this brief survey and hoping that you will take a few minutes to complete it. The survey will be open between March 24, 2016 and April 22, 2016 at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DR7CRVS. Whether or not you are an ASIS&T member and whether you have or lack the experience of attending an ASIS&T webinar, we invite you to contribute your thoughts and opinions. Thank you! *** Richard Hill Executive Director Association for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900