Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services
NKOS

NKOS is devoted to the discussion of the functional and data model for enabling knowledge organization systems (KOS), such as classification systems, thesauri, gazetteers, and ontologies, as networked interactive information services to support the description and retrieval of diverse information resources through the Internet.

Announcement

1. Newly published: JISC state-of-the-art review "Terminology Services and Technologies". Available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/terminology/JISC-review2006.html

2. Presentations at the 5th European NKOS Workshop is available at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/nkos/nkos2006/. The workshop was held successfully at ECDL2006 at Alicante, Spain, on September 21.

3. Newly published: NRHM Volume 12, Number 1 / June 2006. Special issue on Knowledge Organization Systems and Services

NKOS Listserv

• To join the NKOS listserv, check the website at http://dli2.nsf.gov/lists and fill out the request form.
  
• Archive of NKOS discussion list messages, hosted at OCLC server (ended 6/24/2001)
• Archive of NKOS discussion list messages, hosted at DLI2 server ( from 6/24/2001 to present)
• To send messages FOR DELIVERY TO THE WHOLE LIST, use nkos@www.dli2.nsf.gov. To send messages to the list owner about administrative issues, use mzeng@kent.edu

Related Publications

• Special Issue: Knowledge Organization Systems and Services -- Available through New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (NRHM) homepage at: http://www.journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=1361-4568
  • Opening Remarks pp. 1 - 1
    DOI: 10.1080/13614560600880144
    
  • Introduction to Knowledge Organization Systems and Services pp. 3 - 9
    Douglas Tudhope and Marianne Lykke Nielsen
    DOI: 10.1080/13614560600856433
    
  • Automated subject classification of textual Web pages, based on a controlled vocabulary: Challenges and recommendations pp. 11 - 27
    Koraljka Golub
    DOI: 10.1080/13614560600774313
    
  • Language technology in knowledge-organization systems pp. 29 - 49
    Costanza Navarretta, Bolette Sandford Pedersen, Dorte Haltrup Hansen
    DOI: 10.1080/13614560600787984
    
  • Mapping AGROVOC and the Chinese Agricultural Thesaurus: Definitions, tools, procedures pp. 51 - 62
    A. C. Liang and M. Sini
    DOI: 10.1080/13614560600774396
    
  • Freely faceted classification for Web-based information retrieval pp. 63 - 81
    Claudio Gnoli and Hong Mei
    DOI: 10.1080/13614560600758944
    
  • Exploring the potential for social tagging and folksonomy in art museums: Proof of concept pp. 83 - 105
    J. Trant and with the participants in the steve.museum project
    DOI: 10.1080/13614560600802940
    
    
• ANSI/NISO Z39.19 - 2005 Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies. ISBN: 1-880124-65-3. Print abstract or download the standard at:
  http://www.niso.org/standards/standard_detail.cfm?std_id=814
  
  
• Special issue of Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) on New Applications of Knowledge Organization Systems (Volume 4, issue 4, March 2004), Editors: Douglas Tudhope and Traugott Koch.
  
  
• Special Issue of Knowledge Organization on Domain Analysis. Knowledge Organization, 2003, 30(3+4), 125-245. (September 2004). Content pages and abstracts http://www.db.dk/bh/contents.pdf Hjørland, B. & Hartel, J. (Eds.)
  
  
• Weaving Meaning : An Overview of The Semantic Web. By Eric Miller. Presented at The Future of the Dewey Decimal Classification EPC Planning Retreat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. March 16, 2004, Dublin, Ohio, USA. Slides are available at: http://www.w3.org/2004/Talks/0316-semweb-ddc/
  
  
• Special issue of Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) on the theme of Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (Volume 1, issue 8, April 2001), Editor: Traugott Koch.
  
  
• Meeting Report: NKOS Group Reviews Draft DTD for Thesauri (meeting held in conjunction with the American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting in Chicago on November 13, 2000) D-Lib Magazine December 2000 Volume 6 Number 12
  
  
• Digital Gazetteer Information Exchange (DGIE) workshop, funded by the NSF, October 1999. http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu/gazetteer//dgie/DGIE_website/DGIE_homepage.htm
  

Past Workshops and Special Meetings

JCDL NKOS Workshops

• The 7th NKOS workshop "Next Generation Knowledge Organization Systems: Integration Challenges and Strategies" at JCDL 2005 June 10 and 11, Denver.
  
• The 6th NKOS Workshop "Building a Meaningful Web: From Traditional Knowledge Organization Systems to New Semantic Tools" at 2003 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), May 31, 2003, Houston, TX. Workshop summary by Dagobert Soergel (ppt) was presented at the ECDL02 NKOS Workshop.
  
• The 5th NKOS Workshop "Digital gazetteers Integration into distributed digital library services" at the 2002 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, July 18th, Portland, Oregon. Workshop Summary (WORD file)
  
• The 4th NKOS Workshop "Classification Crosswalks: Bringing Communities Together" at the First ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) on June 28th, 2001 in Roanoke, VA.
  
• The 3rd NKOS Workshop at the 2000 ACM Digital Libraries Conference in San Antonio, Wednesday June 7th.
  
• The 2nd NKOS Workshop at the 1999 ACM Digital Libraries Conference in Berkeley, Saturday August 14th
  
• NKOS Workshops at the 1998 and 1997 ACM Digital Libraries Conferences: description of the workshop and notes from the workshop.

ECDL NKOS Workshops

• The 4th European NKOS Workshop "Mapping Knowledge Organisation Systems: User-centred Strategies" at ECDL2005, September 22, Vienna. A report is published on D-Lib Magazine November 2005.
  
• The 3rd NKOS Workshop at ECDL, September 16, 2004, Bath, UK "User-centred approaches to Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS)".
  
• The 2nd NKOS Workshop "Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS): Evolving Standards" at ECDL 2003, August 21, 2003, Trondheim.
  
• NKOS Workshop "NKOS: European initiatives and projects / options for global co-operation" at the Fourth European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL2000), 18-20 September 2000, Lisbon, Portugal.

Dublin Core Conference NKOS sessions

• NKOS Special Session at DC-2005 "Enhancing the Understanding of Meaning: Practical Applications of Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS)" (September 13, 2005). See details and presentation files .
  
• At the DC2003 Conference held in Seattle from Sept. 28 - Oct. 2, there was a special session on Metadata Value Spaces. Traugott Koch presented Activities to advance the powerful use of vocabularies in the digital environment - Structured overview, which is available at: http://www.lub.lu.se/~traugott/drafts/seattlespec-vocab.html.

International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) conferences

• 9th ISKO International Conference, Vienna, Austria, July 4th-7th, 2006. The theme of the conference is: “Knowledge Organization for a Global Learning Society”. http://isko.univie.ac.at/cms2/index.php

Other NKOS meetings

• NKOS Special Meeting at the NetLab conference, April 12, 2002, Lund University, Sweden
  Discussion of standard developments regarding the use of thesauri, classification and other KO systems on the net .
  

NKOS Registry

• NKOS Draft Registry Description Attributes
• Version 3 with Reference Document for Data Elements - Draft, 14 June 2001

The NKOS discussion list is now being hosted by the NSF Digital Library Initiative (Phase II) program. The new listserv address is: nkos@dli2.nsf.gov. The NKOS list is also listed on the discussion list page of the DLI2 program at http://dli2.nsf.gov/lists. Subscription requests can be sent to the listserv owner directly from this site.

Taxonomy of Knowledge Organization Systems

• Taxonomy of Knowledge Organization Systems (draft)

Vocabulary Mark-up Language (Voc-ML)

Vocabulary ML: Metacode strawman DTD draft (Word document)

  URL: http://nkos.slis.kent.edu
Last updated: 9/8/2006
Questions and suggestions should be sent to mzeng@kent.edu