[NORSLIS] CFP: 4th European NKOS WORKSHOP at ECDL 2005, September 22, Vienn a

[Nielsen, Marianne Lykke]

Call for Presentations and Participation
4th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop 
ECDL2005 September 22 Vienna 

Mapping Knowledge Organisation Systems: User-centred Strategies 

An NKOS Workshop will take place on September 22nd, as part of ECDL 2005 in
Vienna. Proposals are invited for presentations (20 minutes) on work or
projects related to the themes of the workshop or to NKOS more generally.
Presentations from the Workshop may be selected for consideration in a
forthcoming (early 2006) NKOS special issue of the journal New Review of
Hypermedia and Multimedia. 

Please email proposals (approx 500 words including aims, methods, main
findings) by June 20 to Douglas Tudhope. Advance indication that you intend
to submit would be helpful. Proposals will be peer-reviewed by the program
committee and notification of acceptance will be given by July 15. After the
workshop, copies of presentations will be made available on this website. 
See attached pdf for full details or visit the workshop website:
http://www2.db.dk/nkos2005/ 

The workshop aims to address key challenges for KOS posed by the overlapping
themes of 
 * User-centred design issues 
 * Mapping between different KOS 
 * KOS representations and service protocols 

However other topics can also be proposed. See below for indicative list of
topics and provisional schedule. 

Main Contact: Douglas Tudhope, 
Hypermedia Research Unit, School of Computing, 
University of Glamorgan 
Pontypridd, CF37 1DL, Wales, UK 
Email: dstudhope at glam.ac.uk 
http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/staff/dstudhope 

Co-organiser: Marianne Lykke Nielsen, 
Department of Information Studies, Royal School of Library and Information
Science, Aalborg Branch, Aalborg, Denmark 
E-mail: mln at db.dk
http://www2.db.dk/mln/ 

Background 
Knowledge Organization Systems, such as classifications, gazetteers, lexical
databases, ontologies, taxonomies and thesauri, attempt to model the
underlying semantic structure of a domain for the purposes of retrieval. New
networked KOS services and applications are emerging and we have the
opportunity to draw on a number of technologies that can be combined to
yield new solutions. 

The workshop aims to address the following key themes: 
 * User-centred design issues - User-centred design strategies for KOS. How
to develop understandable and thorough descriptions of concepts and terms?
How to show and explain relationships? The challenge is to find the
appropriate level of explanation, clarity and conciseness. 
 * Mapping between different KOS - How to achieve semantic interoperability?
Cross-browsing and cross-searching between distributed KOS services. Mapping
between terms, classes, systems and types of KOS. Innovative visualization
methods to support KOS development and mapping. 
 * KOS representations and service protocols - A basic infrastructure is
needed to provide protocols for networked, programmatic access to a variety
of vocabularies for different end users and applications. These require
standard representations in formats such as RDF/XML. What is the appropriate
granularity of base services to apply in evolving Web/Grid environments? 

Other topics for presentations can also be proposed.

Program committee 
Hanne Albrechtsen, Risø National Laboratory, Denmark 
Stella Dextre Clarke, Luke House, Wantage, United Kingdom 
Ron Davies, Information Consultant, Brussels, Belgium 
Lois Delcambre, Computer Science Department, Portland State University, USA 
Martin Doerr, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and
Technology, Greece 
Traugott Koch, Knowledge Technologies Group, Lund University, Sweden 
Alistair Miles, CCLRC - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom 
Dagobert Soergel, University of Maryland, USA 
Diane Vizine-Goetz, OCLC Research, USA 
Marcia Zeng, Kent State University, USA 


Best regards,
Marianne

Marianne Lykke Nielsen, PhD

Department of Information Studies
Royal School of Library and Information Science - Aalborg branch
Sohngårdsholmsvej 2
DK-9100 Aalborg, Denmark

Phone: (+45) 98 15 79 22; Fax: (+45) 98 15 10 42
Email: mln at db.dk; Web: http://www.db.dk/mln