Move forward the initiatives toward interactive networked access to reference tools

• terminology tools/services
• concept tools/services
• classification tools/services

e.g., thesauri, classification systems, gazetteers, taxonomies, ontologies, language translation, dictionaries, etc.

Focus on current and planned developments.

Follow-up

• List serve hosted by CNI
• Workshop report with action items

Data model to support interactive use.

Data elements and relationships to convey content? Elements (ANSI/ISO or something higher level)

Multilingual aspects?

Computer understanding of system notations. Are unique ID for terms/concepts needed? (URI/URN, DOI)

Representational structures (XML)?

Representation of purpose

• CORBA Lex call for proposals for interface to terminology server

What user/use interaction requirements - what conversations between client and server?

How to access and navigate?

What views?

What are most important features?

Quality standards (CIQM labeling). Breadth, depth, coverage.

Metadata representation of tools for registries - "collection level"

Role of metadata to enable interoperability

Role of tool registries

Infrastructure and mechanisms of registries

Types of agreements and partnerships, kinds of business models. What happens when put these in online environment? Multiple tools, multiple environments. Fringes of domain.

What kinds of relationships are needed between owners and users?

Rights management issues and control?

Appropriate access and use constraint models?

Transaction and payment models?

How generic do we need to be beyond thesauri?

Types of information objects (reference tools)

Thesauri - hierarchical, synonyms

Classifications

Dictionaries - Lexicons

Gazetteers

Taxonomies (a classification)

Ontologies

Authority Files

Lists of valid terms

Index structure

Semantic networks

Glossaries

Data dictionaries and object hierarchies

A typology such as this will be a necessary for this effort.

Structural issues:

• Anchor (term, entry point)

• Relationships
• Definitions
• Source
• Authority (validating source)
• History note (temporal information)
• Classification (Facet, Categories)
• Representation (e.g., language, character set)

• Generic set of categories (attributes)

• Generic set of relationships

Within

Across

Terminology services (whole tools - with specific access)

• Generic functions

Aliasing

Concept expansion / focusing

Contextualization

Limiting context of use/view

Filtering (ranking, document clustering)

Scenario: supporting interactive use

Record w/ "anchor" e.g. pollution

Want to find related information

Pollution + DDC + LCC+ related concept + related organizations

What you want to do:

Scenarios of use

More specific models based on scenarios

Glossary of terms

Mission:

Develop standards for use of tools in network search (directly and indirectly)

Demonstrate an interest in forming a group. Setting the (functional) requirements before we set the standards.

Commitment to work offline, to make information publicly available (accessible)

Thesaurus registry (Interconnect) - broaden information types

Self-enrollment

Quality rating?

Use form as straw man.

Taxonomy of information types, definitions

External knowlwedge sources (Buckland and Plaunt) that's a component of a larger search system. Reference model. Other models? This sort of stuff could be mounted/pointed to at web site.

Forum for review and collaboration.

Planning new products.

Form task forces/committees

Developing interactive thesauri

Registries (metadata)

XML support

Interface issues - Interoperability

Data model

• types of external knowledge sources
• directed labeled graphs model (instead of relationships)
• metadata level
• visual reference model (see trellis model for hypertext, html, etc. I3 - Intelligent Information Integration initiative - diagrammatic reference model, etc.)
• functional model

Working groups

Registries for Knowledge Organization Schemes (KOS)

• Categories of KOS
• Descriptions of KOS
• Behaviors of types of KOS

Reference/Functional Model

• High level object model (graphic representation)
• Interoperability with distributed searching
• Support for distributed cataloging (metadata)
• Support for integration into cataloging, indexing, and searching information systems

White paper report on the scope and requirements of the project

Web site providing links to related projects and sites and adding additional information

Project glossary, authoritative source of terminology, on the Web

Electronic forum

Plan next workshop – who what when where why