Networked Knowledge Organization Systems and Services European Workshops Archive

2006

The 5th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop Workshop at the 10th ECDL Conference, Alicante, Spain, September 21, 2006

Presentations available:

• Stella G Dextre Clarke: BS 8723 advances to encompass interoperability [Powerpoint]
• Dennis Nicholson: Design of a Pilot SRW-compliant Terminologies Mapping Service (HILT) [Powerpoint]
• Gilles Falquet, Luka Nerima, Claire-Lise Mottaz Jiang and Jean-Claude Ziswiler: Integrating Semi-formal KnowledgeOrganization Structures [PDF]
• Sebastian Ryszard Kruk: Role of Ontologies in Semantic Digital Libraries [PDF]
• Martin Doerr: Waking from a Dogmatic Slumber - A Different View on Knowledge Management for DLs [Powerpoint]
• Alistair Miles: A Theory of Retrieval Using Structured Vocabularies (SKOS: Preparation for Standardization) [PDF]
• Marianne Lykke Nielsen and Anna Gjerluf Eslau: Indexing challenges in work place information retrieval [Powerpoint]
• Susan Price, Marianne Lykke Nielsen and Lois Delcambre: The Feasibility of Using the Semantic Components Model for.Indexing Documents in Digital Libraries [Powerpoint]
• James Terwilliger, Lois Delcambre and Judith Logan: Guava: Capturing the Intrinsic Organization of Knowledge in User Interfaces [Powerpoint]
• Doug Tudhope: A tentative typology of KOS:.towards a KOS of KOS? [Powerpoint]
• Jakob VossKnowledge Organization with Wikipedia - Joining the Free Encyclopaedia and Digital Libraries [Powerpoint]
• Jakob Voss: AGROVOC and the OWL Web Ontology Language: the Agriculture Ontology Service - Concept Server OWL model [Powerpoint]

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2005

The 4th European NKOS Workshop "Mapping Knowledge Organisation Systems: User-centred Strategies" at ECDL2005, September 22, Vienna.

A Report on the 4th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) Workshop: Mapping Knowledge Organization Systems is published on D-Lib Magazine November 2005.

Presentations available:

• Azam Sanatjoo: Users' perception with work task oriented thesaurus design [PDF]
• Bob Bater: A Knowledge Management Development Project for London Underground [PDF]
• Boots Cassel: Information organization for the union of computing related disciplines [PDF]
• Johanna Eerola and Pertti Vakkari: How a general and a specific thesaurus covers expressions in patients' questions and physicians' answers [PDF]
• Edward A. Fox, Baoping Zhang & Ryan Richardson: Networked Knowledge Organisation for the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertatons [PDF]
• Margherita Sini: The FAO Multilingual Thesaurus (AGROVOC) and the Chinese Agricultural Thesaurus (CAT) Mapping Project [PDF]
• Alistair Miles, Brian Matthews & Michael Wilson: SKOS Core: Update on W3C's Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS) Core [PDF]
• Marianne Lykke Nielsen, Mathew Weaver, Lois Delcambre, Portland State University & Tim Tolle: Enhancing domain-specific digital library with facilities for vocabulary exploration [PDF]
• Peter Scheir, Stefanie Lindstaedt & Mathias Lux: Associative Retrieval Over Different Knowledge Organization Systems [PDF]
• Stella Dextre Clarke: Revision and extension of thesaurus standards [PDF]
• Doug Tudhope & Marianne Lykke Nielsen: 4th ECDL Workshop [PDF] ** not required ** ???
• Gilles Falquet, Luka Nerima, Claire-Lise Mottaz Jiang & Jean-Claude Ziswiler: Building Virtual Documents by Integrating Hyperbooks [PDF]

NKOS Special Session at DC-2005

Presentations available:

• Eric Childress: OCLO and Vocabulary Identifiers [Powerpoint]
• Gail Hodge & Vivian Hutchison: Case Studies from the National Biological Information Infrastructure and the NASA Goddard Library [Powerpoint]
• Rachel Heery: (Metadata and) Vocabulary Registries [Powerpoint]
• Eric Childress, Andrew Houghton & Diane Vizine-Goetz: OCLC and Vocabulary Identifiers [Powerpoint]
• Andy Powell: (Persistent) Identifiers for Concepts / Terms / Relationships [Powerpoint]
• Doug Tudhope: Applications of NKOS: some examples and questions [Powerpoint]

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2004

The 3rd European NKOS Workshop at ECDL, September 16, 2004, Bath, UK "User-centred approaches to Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS)". Report by Marianne Lykke Nielsen published in D-Lib Magazine October 2004.

Presentations available:

• Anna Eslau, H. Lundbeck and Marianne Lykke Nielsen: Introduction to user centred approaches to KOS (no presentation available)
• Tamara Sumner, Faisal Ahmad & Michael Wright: The NSDL Strand Map Service: A Networked Knowledge Organization and Visualization System for K-12 Education [PDF]
• Hella Møller Rasmussen: Developing a tool for searching and learning - the potential of an enriched end user thesaurus [PDF]
• Caterina Caracciolo and Stephan Stipdonk: Browsing and understanding a domain ontology: a user study [PDF]
• Mathew Weaver, Timothy Tolle & Marianne Lykke Nielsen: Knowledge Structures for a Domain-Specific Digital Library for Natural Resource Managers [PDF]
• Dorothee Blocks: A model of information searching behaviour to facilitate end-user support in KOS-enhanced systems [PDF]
• Doug Tudhope: NKOS Standardization Initiatives [PDF]
• Stella Dextre Clarke: Revision and extension of thesaurus standards [PDF]
• Alistair Miles, Brian Matthews, Nikki Rogers & Dave Beckett: SKOS: Standards and Best Practices for using Knowledge Organisation Systems on the Semantic Web [PDF]
• Edmund Lee: Terminology resource discovery for the UK heritage sector - a case study Further Information: SPECTRUM terminology [PDF]
• David Martul: Update on topic map and linguistic standards [PDF]
• Piotr Gawrysiak, Henryk Rybinski & Michal Okoniewski: Dynamic KOS building & management for library information systems [PDF]
• Martin Doerr & Manos Papagelis: A method for estimating the precision of place name matching [PDF]

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2003

The 2nd NKOS Workshop "Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS): Evolving Standards" at ECDL 2003, August 21, 2003, Trondheim.

• Hypermedia Research Unit - NKOS WORKSHOP
• Call for presentations (Noticeboard: JoDI)
• Programme [Word document]
• Tudhope, D.: Workshop Report in D-Lib Magazine, September 2003

Powerpoint presentations available:

• Amy Warner: Guidelines and Principles for Developing Search and Browse Vocabularies [Powerpoint]
• Stella G Dextre Clarke: BS 8723 : a new British Standard for structured vocabularies [Powerpoint]
• Dagobert Soergel: Brief report on NKOS at JCDL2003 [Powerpoint]
• Dagobert Soergel: Standards for KOS: Present status and future requirements [Powerpoint]
• Adam Farquhar & Thomas Bandholtz: Semantic Network Services. Sharing an integrated Ontology using Topic Maps and Web Services [Powerpoint]
• Frehiwot Fisseha, Anita Liang & Johannes Keizer: Reengineering AGROVOC to Ontologies - Step towards better semantic structure [Powerpoint]
• Linda Hill, Olha Buchel, Greg Janée: Integration of Knowledge Organization Systems into Digital Library Architectures [Powerpoint]
• Gail Hodge, Janet Ormes & Patrick Healey: Using the NASA Thesaurus to Support the Indexing of Streaming Media [Powerpoint]
• Stephan Körnig, Ali Mahdoui, Julia Stoll & Rudi Schmiede: A Generic Framework for the Exchange and Usage of Semantically Enriched Information [Powerpoint]
• Marianne Lykke Nielsen: End-user interaction with corporate digital thesaurus [Powerpoint]
• Marcos André Gonçalves: From semantic networks, to ontologies, and concept maps: knowledge tools in digital libraries [Powerpoint]
• Martin Doerr: The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model - a Standard for the Integration of Cultural Information [Powerpoint]
• Alistair Miles, Brian Matthews &Michael Wilson: Making Thesauri Work for the Semantic Web [Powerpoint]
• Robert Tansley: The SIMILE Project: Extending the Metadata Capabilities of the DSpace System [Powerpoint]
• Terence Smith & Marcia Zeng: Concept-based Learning Spaces- Apply domain-specific KOS principles for organizing collections/services for given applications [Powerpoint]
• Dagobert Soergel & Katy Newton: From legacy KOS to full-fledged ontologies [Powerpoint]
• Diane Vizine-Goetz: Terminology Services [Powerpoint]

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2002

• NKOS Special Meeting at the NetLab conference, April 12, 2002

Powerpoint presentations available:

• Joseph A. Busch: XML DTDs and other Alternatives: Vocabulary Markup Language (Voc-ML) Project & Friends
• Phil Cross: RDF Schema for Thesauri
• Martin Doerr: Semantic Problems of Thesaurus Mapping
• Diane Vizine-Goetz: Semantic Web Overview

Other materials

• RDF Thesaurus Draft Specification
• The ADL Thesaurus Protocol
• Zthes: a Z39.50 Profile for Thesaurus Navigation
• Vocabulary ML: Metacode strawman DTD [Word document]

Related material from the conference

• NetLab and friends - Tribute and outlook after 10 years of digital library development
• Programme with presentations from the conference speakers, updated 3 May
• List of participants
• Programme

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2000

NKOS Workshop for ECDL2000

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.

The only papers still available are:

• Martin Doerr: Semantic problems of thesaurus mapping [abstract] [paper]
• NKOS Workshop at ECDL2000
• Ken Miller and Brian Matthews: Having the Right Connections: the LIMBER Project [abstract]

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