[Asis-l] CFP: NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS WORKSHOP

[Gailhodge at aol.com]

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Call for Presentations at the 7th Networked Knowledge Organization Systems 
(NKOS) Workshop
at JCDL2005  June 10-11 in Denver, Colorado
 
Next Generation Knowledge Organization Systems: 
Integration Challenges and Stategies

The 7th NKOS Workshop will take place on June 10-11, as part of JCDL2005 in 
Denver, Colorado <http://www.jcdl2005.org>. It builds on the previous NKOS 
Workshops at JCDL and ECDL. A combination of invited and submitted presentations 
will make up the program.  Proposals are invited for presentations (20 minutes) 
on work or projects related to the themes of the workshop. 
 
Please email proposals (500 words) by April 1st to Gail Hodge. Further 
details will be posted on the NKOS website as they emerge: 
http://nkos.slis.kent.edu
 
See below for list of indicative topics and provisional schedule of the 
workshop. 
 
 
Main Contact: Gail Hodge 
                        Information International Associates, Inc. 
312 Walnut Pl.
Havertown, PA 19083 USA
Email: gailhodge at aol.com
                                
Background
 
This year's Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) workshop builds 
on seven years of workshops in the U.S. and Europe on issues enabling networked 
knowledge organization systems (KOS), such as classification systems, 
thesauri, gazetteers, taxonomies, and ontologies, to support the description, 
retrieval, and use of diverse information resources. Now many efforts are underway to 
research the issues and implement solutions to the challenges of networking 
and integrating KOS somewhat isolated domains: indexing services and thesaurus 
builders; computer scientists and system integrators; ontologists; 
taxonomists; and others. Requirements to solve these integration issues have become 
mission critical in many cases; the need to support computational, programmatic 
integration to handle masses of data from independent sources is pushing the 
research and development agenda. The need to move forward to meet these challenges 
while at the same time applying the best practices and "wisdom" developed 
through years of practical experience is acute.     

The JCDL-NKOS workshop for 2005 will bring together researchers and 
implementers from diverse  international communities who are developing new models, 
conducting research, and implementing practical solutions for networking KOS and 
integrating the associated information and data resources.  The primary aim of 
the workshop is to inform NKOS researchers and practitioners about 
developments across a number of communities and to identify research and development 
directions. The objectives are to encourage sharing of new initiatives and 
lessons learned and to identify collaborative development opportunities. 
 
Topics may include: 
The integration of KOS of different types, including thesauri, classification 
systems,  gazetteers, taxonomies and ontologies, in support of specific 
digital library and semantic web initiatives.
Methodologies, tools, and strategies for integrating and extending KOS to 
address new technology opportunities and to bridge domains and user communities. 
Updates to terminology related standards, including OWL, RDF, NISO Z39.19, 
the British Thesaurus Standard and others from ISO and the W3C.
Identification of a research agenda to move forward
 
Program Outline
 
Session 1: Welcome and introduction to NKOS and to the workshop 
Session 2: Self-introductions and brief descriptions of projects and 
interests particularly as they relate to the topic of integration and interoperability
Session 3: Case studies about the interoperability and integration of KOSs 
(approximately 2 presentations)
Session 4:   Presentations on methodologies, tools and strategies 
(approximately 2)
Session 5:  Presentations on recent related standards activities 
(approximately 2)
Session 6:  Open discussion of the issues raised in the previous sessions 
Session 7: Identification of a research agenda based on reactions from a panel
 of practitioners, software developers, academics and standards developers
 
Workshop Format
The full-day workshop will begin Friday afternoon and end Saturday morning.  
It will include invited and accepted presentations, guided by a program 
committee.  Presentations will be grouped into topic sessions and demonstrations can 
be set up for access before and after the workshop and during breaks. 
Discussion and identification of issues will be encouraged by providing a significant 
amount of time for open discussion and networking opportunities. Participants 
will be given the opportunity to introduce their work and their interests.  
The identification of a research agenda will involve significant facilitated 
discussions.
Expected Participants
 
·         Digital library and information infrastructure developers,
·         Thesaurus and ontology developers,
·         Standard developers in the area of terminology usage and exchange,
·         Resource discovery service providers (search engines, directories, 
portals etc.)
·         Information scientists, library museum and archive professionals,
·         Language engineering and terminology researchers
·         Knowledge managers
 
Program Committee 
 
Gail Hodge, Information International Associates, Inc.
Jian Qin, University of Syracuse
Douglas Tudhope, University of Glamorgan
Marcia Zeng, Kent State University
Linda Hill
 
Registration and Further Details

JCDL2005 will handle registration for the Workshop as part of the conference 
registration. 
 
See the NKOS web site for further details and for general information on NKOS:
http://nkos.slis.kent.edu 
 
 
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