FINAL PROGRAM

NEXT GENERATION KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS: INTEGRATION CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES

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

 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Denver, Colorado

June 10-11, 2005

  *Power Point Presentation files are linked under each speaker's name listed below.

JUNE 10 – Colorado C/D 

2:00pm             Welcome and Introduction to NKOS (Linda Hill)

                        Brief Reports on Projects and R&D Interests (All participants)

CASE STUDIES ON INTEROPERABILITY AND INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS

 2:30pm             caDSR and the NCI Thesaurus (Denise Warzel, National Cancer Institute)

 3:00pm             Developing an Entomology Ontology from the UMLS (Neil Sarkar, American Museum of Natural History)

 3:30pm               Break

 3:45pm             RELEVANT STANDARDS ACTIVITIES

                         ISO/NISO (Sue Ellen Wright & Marcia Zeng, Kent State Univ.)

 4:30pm             SKOS Core and Other W3C Activities (Gail Hodge, IIa)

 4:45pm             Discussion

 5:00pm             Adjourn

6:30pm             NETWORKING DINNER: LOCATION TBD

 JUNE 11 – Pomeroy Room

 8:00am             Continental Breakfast

                         METHODOLOGIES, TOOLS AND STRATEGIES

8:30am             eXtended Metadata Registries (Bruce Bargmeyer, Lawrence Berkeley Lab)

9:00am             OWL Mapping Thesaurus Format (Jay Ven Eman, Access Innovations)

9:30am             The FACET Project and Implications for Terminology Services (Douglas Tudhope, Univ. of Glamorgen)

10:00am           The NSDL Strand Map Service: A Networked Knowledge Organization and Visualization System for K-12 Education (Tamara Sumner, University of Colorado, Boulder)

10:30am           Break 

10:45am           Open Discussion: Development of a Research Agenda

Noon               Adjourn