[Sigcr-l] Joint NKOS/CENDI Workshop, Sept. 2008 Washington, D.C.

[ZENG, MARCIA]

From: Networked Knowledge Organization Systems and Services [mailto:NKOS-L at OCLC.ORG] On Behalf Of Gail Hodge
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REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

New Dimensions in Knowledge Organization Systems

A Joint NKOS/CENDI Workshop

The World Bank

1818 H St., NW

Board Room, 13th Floor

Washington, DC

September 11, 2008



Registration fee: $100

Deadline: September 1, 2008



CENDI and the Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Working Group are joining together to hold this workshop on Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS). It will be hosted by the World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW, Washington DC on September 11, 2008. The Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) cover a wide range from authority files, taxonomies, and thesauri, to formal ontologies. The workshop will focus on advances in terminology systems and services. It will cover aspects such as interoperability, mapping, collaborative KOS development, metadata for terminology resources, registries and standards.  Speakers will represent government, academic and commercial organizations from a variety of disciplines including agriculture, the environment and biomedicine.



The registration form, a preliminary program and additional information are available at http://www.cendi.gov/activities/events.html <http://www.cendi.gov/activities/events.html> .



NKOS (http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/) is a community of more than 100 practitioners from more than 10 countries who are interested in the use of knowledge organization systems in networked environments. This is the eighth workshop on KOS related topics sponsored by NKOS 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. CENDI's Terminology Resources Task Group provides educational opportunities, promotes best practices, and conducts research projects in the area of knowledge organization systems for CENDI members.





Program Committee

Gail Hodge, Information International Associates, Inc. (chair)

Denise Bedford, The World Bank

Marcia Lei Zeng, Kent State University

Jian Qin, Syracuse University

Diane Vizine-Goetz, OCLC

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