Networked Knowledge Organization Systems and Services

The 7th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop

Workshop at the 12th ECDL Conference, Aarhus, Denmark

Friday September 19th 2008


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ECDL 2008 | NKOS Network

Workshop Programme

Location:
Studenterhuset, meeting room 2
Ndr. Ringgade 3, 8000 Århus C

08:30 - 09:15 Welcome and introduction
Douglas Tudhope, School of Computing, University of Glamorgan; UK
   
  Session 1: Social tagging
Chair: Marianne Lykke Nielsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark
09:15 - 09:45 Public and professional vocabularies: comparing user tagging with museum documents and documentation.
Jennifer Trant and David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics, Canada
09:45 - 10:15 Emerging trends in tagging: structure, suggestions, control, auto-manual folksonomies
Plenum discussion of social tagging trends and its relation to KOS
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee
   
  Session 2: Networked Knowledge Organisation Systems
Chair: Douglas Tudhope, School of Computing, University of Glamorgan; UK
10:45 - 11:15 Search options and content tagging
Marjorie M.K. Hlava, Access Innovations / Data Harmony, USA
11:15 - 11:45 Semantic Portal Business & Economics
Magnus Pfeffer, Mannheim University Library (IT Dept.), Germany
11:45 - 12:05 Towards a comprehensive international Knowledge Organisation System
Felix Boteram & Jessica Hubrich, Fachhochschule Köln, Germany
12:05 - 12:25 Exploiting taxonomies’ broadening for enhanced tagging: damped concept clustering
Christoph Wieser & Austria François Bry, Salzburg Research & University of Munich, Germany
12:25 - 13:00 Summing-up discussion of morning’s topics
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch at Stakladen
   
  Session 3: Terminology Registries
Chair: Traugott Koch, Max Planck Digital Library, Germany
14:00 - 14:30 Terminology Registry Scoping study
Doug Tudhope, Glamorgan University & Kora Golub, UKOLN, UK
14:30 - 15:00 Registry requirements and issues
Marcia Zeng, School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University, USA
15:00 - 15:15 Plenum discussion
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee
   
  Session 4: Domain-specific, facetted KOS
Chair: Marcia Zeng, School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University, USA
15:45 - 16:15 Potential of freely faceted classification for knowledge retrieval and browsing
Claudio Gnoli, University of Pavia, Italy
16:15 - 16:45 Indexing with semantic components improve information retrieval in domain-specific web portal
Marianne Lykke Nielsen, Susan Price & Lois Delcambre, Royal School of Library and Information Science; DK & Portland State University, USA
16:45 - 17:00 Further communication and concluding discussion
Traugott Koch, Max Planck Digital Library, Germany
   
18:30 The workshop will be followed by the usual informal evening dinner where discussions can continue. The venue will be announced at the workshop.

Please register for participation at the ECDL conference site http://www.ecdl2008.org/registration.php

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