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Semantic Search:
Magnet for the Needle in a Search Haystack
A Joint NKOS/CENDI Workshop
U.S. Department of Transportation * DOT Media Center,
Oklahoma City Room *
Washington DC
December 6, 2012
What is Semantic Search? What user requirements does it seek to address? How is Semantic Search being implemented? How can Semantic Search technologies be evaluated? What results have we seen thus far, and what are the areas of research that may bring future improvements? These questions and related topics will be addressed by experts in semantic search and related technologies, users, implementers and academic researchers. Dean Allemang, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Data Scientist at Open Data Registry (previously of TopQuadrant) will place semantic search in the semantic web landscape. Dr. Denise Bedford, Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management at Kent State University, will discuss the various views of semantic search. Other speakers will address linked data applications in libraries, museums and archives; the impact of semantic search on visualization tools; and the development of tools to support semantic search in particular communities. Information managers and technologists from various user communities will discuss the needs of their end users that they are seeking to address with semantic search. Students working in this area will provide a look at the future through a series of lightning talks.
This workshop will be of interest to information managers, technologists, content providers, enterprise architects and researchers across sectors.
INTRODUCTION
9:00 am
Welcome from NKOS, Gail Hodge, Information International Associates
Welcome from NTL and CENDI
Amanda Wilson, Director,
National Transportation Library, U.S. Department of Transportation
SETTING THE LANDSCAPE
Moderator: Michael
Pendleton, US Environmental Protection Agency
9:15 am Keynote:
The Semantic Web Landscape, Dean Allemang, CEO and Principal Consultant, Working Ontologist LLC
10 :00 The
11 Views of Semantic Search, Denise Bedford, Kent State University
Moderator: Gail Rayburn, John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Link to the recorded session: (48 mins.) https://kentedu.webex.com/kentedu/ldr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=31276952&rKey=b40a0a158d5f7228
10:45 am The Value
Proposition for Semantic Search: A User Panel
The Library Community: Diane Hillmann, Metadata Management Associates
The Data
Community: George
Thomas, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Health Informatics Community: Helga
Rippen, Westat
The Intelligence Community: Leslie
Mitchell, Information International Associates
The Publishing Community: Joe Hilger, Avalon Consulting
For
an Enterprise:
Farah Gheriss, International Monetary Fund
11:30 am Lunch
[On Your Own, DOT Cafeteria]
Link to recorded session (1 hour 27 mins.) https://kentedu.webex.com/kentedu/ldr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=31284767&rKey=41860184f1d2d442
(Note the beginning two minutes visual was incorrect.)
1:15 pm Visualization
and Semantic Search, Xia Lin, Drexel University
1:45 pm Semantic Search: Discovering Relevant Information in a Digital Golden Age,
Bernadette Hyland, 3 Round Stones, Inc.
Link to recorded session (1 hour 3 mins.) https://kentedu.webex.com/kentedu/ldr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=31288632&rKey=d953fb40266f3383
2:45 pm Using
Linked Data in the Biodiversity and Systematic Taxonomy Communities, Joel
Richard, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Moderator: Denise Bedford, Kent State University
Through the Eye of the Needle: Making Sense of Humanities Scholarship with Linked Open Data Amalia Levi, College of information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
When is Semantic Search Really Semantic Search? Jake Spiegler and Thomas Burdick, Information Architecture and Knowledge Management, Kent State University (ppt)
Knowledge Architecture to Support Search Visualization, Bryan Schneider, Enterprise Information Architecture, International Monetary Fund
3:30 pm Where
We Are and Where We are Going – The Future of Semantic Search, Tamas Doszkocs, Weblib LLC
Link to the recorded session (37 mins) https://kentedu.webex.com/kentedu/ldr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=31291082&rKey=a38d4c8747326fab
Moderator: Joseph Busch, Taxonomy Strategies LLC
4:30 pm Adjourn
The Program Committee:
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NKOS (Networked Knowledge Organization Systems) is an ad hoc work group of more than 100 international experts and implementers of knowledge organization systems. NKOS is devoted to enabling knowledge organization systems/services (KOS), such as classification systems, thesauri, gazetteers, and ontologies, as networked, interactive information services to support the description and retrieval of diverse information resources through the Internet.
CENDI is an interagency working group of senior scientific and technical information managers from 13 U.S. federal agencies. CENDI’s mission is to improve the productivity of federal science, technology and related programs through effective information support systems.
