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Knowledge Organization Systems: Managing to the Future
A Joint CENDI/NKOS Workshop
National Agricultural Library * Reading Room * Beltsville, MD
October 22, 2009
The workshop will focus on approaches to the management of knowledge organization systems that will support emerging and future requirements and use cases. It will cover aspects such as metadata for terminology and terminology resources, registries, standards, interoperability, collaborative workflows for development and expert review, and management software. The use cases will range from metadata input to search and decision support. The Knowledge Organization Systems will cover a wide range from authority files to formal ontologies. Speakers will represent government, academic and commercial organizations from a variety of disciplines including biomedicine, the environment, and earth science.
Morning
8:30 Registration and Networking
INTRODUCTION
9:00
- Welcome from NKOS (Gail Hodge, IIa)
- Welcome from NAL and CENDI (Eleanor Frierson, Deputy Director, NAL)
TOWARD A SHARED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT (Moderator: Lori Finch, NAL)
9:15 Sharing Terminologies Through Registries: Contributed Controlled Vocabularies (Marjorie Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc.) (PDF)
9:45 The EPA Terminology Services: Toward Better Terminology Management and Use (Michael Pendleton, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) (PDF)
10:15 Break
10:45 Subject Matter Expert Thesaurus Review: Improving Collaboration with Researchers (Gail Rayburn, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory) (PDF)
TOWARD INTEROPERABILITY (Moderator: Marjorie Hlava, Access Innovations)
11:15 Interoperable Thesauri: The Challenges and Experiences of the HIVE Project (Jane Greenberg, Univ. of North Carolina, School of Library and Information Science) (PDF)
11:45 Lunch
Afternoon
12:45 ISO 25964: Thesauri and Interoperability with Other Vocabularies (Marcia Lei Zeng, Kent State Univ.) (PDF)
1:10 Dublin Core application profiles in context (Thomas Baker, DCMI) (PPT)
1:30 Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) Update and Implementation at the Library of Congress (Ed Summers and Rebecca Guenther, Library of Congress) (PDF)
2:00 Break
TOWARD ONTOLOGIES AND THE SEMANTIC WEB (Moderator: Michael Pendleton, EPA)
2:15 Evaluating Ontology Alignment Techniques (Willem Robert van Hage, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) (PDF)
2:45 NCI Thesaurus: Managing Toward an Ontology (Gilberto Fragoso, EVS Infrastructure, National Cancer Institute/NIH) (PDF)
3:15 Ontology Summit Review 2008-2009 (Denise Bedford, The World Bank) (PDF)
3:45 Wrap Up (Gail Hodge, IIa)
4:00 Adjourn
This is the ninth workshop on KOS-related topics sponsored by NKOS in the U.S. since 1998.
CENDI (www.cendi.gov) is an interagency working group of senior scientific and technical information managers from 13 U.S. federal agencies. CENDI’s mission is to help improve the productivity of federal science- and technology-based programs through effective scientific, technical, and related information-support systems.
Program Committee Chair
Gail Hodge
Information International Associates, Inc.
Program Committee Members
Denise Bedford, The World Bank
Marcia Lei Zeng, Kent State University
Marjorie Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc.