| Welcome by Marianne Lykke Nielsen |
| Session 1: User centred approaches to KOS |
| Introduction to user centred approaches to KOS Anna Eslau, H. Lundbeck and Marianne Lykke Nielsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science |
| The NSDL Strand Map Service: A Networked Knowledge Organization and Visualization System for K-12 Education Tamara Sumner, University of Colorado and Michael Wright, DLESE Program Center |
| Developing a tool for searching and learning – the potential of an enriched end user thesaurus. Hella Møller Rasmussen, EU Information Centre of the Danish Parliament |
| Session 1 (cont.) |
| Browsing and understanding a domain ontology: a user study Caterina Caracciolo, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam and Stephan Stipdonk, Elsevier Science |
| Knowledge Structures for a Domain-Specific Digital Library for Natural Resource Managers Mathew Weaver, Computer Science & Engineering Department, OGI School of Science & Engineering, Timothy Tolle, Consultant, formerly with Region 6 of the USDA Forest Service, Marianne Lykke Nielsen, Dept. of Information Studies, Royal School of Library and Information Science and Lois Delcambre, Computer Science & Engineering Department, OGI School of Science & Engineering |
| A model of information searching behaviour to facilitate end-user support in KOS-enhanced systems Dorothee Blocks, Hypermedia Research Unit, School of Computing, University of Glamorgan |
| Session 2: Standardization initiatives |
| Introduction to standardization initiatives Doug Tudhope, School of Computing, University of Glamorgan |
| Revision and extension of thesaurus standards Stella Dextre Clarke, Information Consultant, Luke House, West Hendred, Wantage, United Kingdom |
| SKOS: Standards and Best Practices for USING Knowledge Organisation Systems ON THE Semantic Web Alistair Miles, CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Brian Matthews, CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Nikki Rogers, ILRT and Dave Beckett, ILRT |
| Terminology resource discovery for the UK heritage sector – a case study Further Information: SPECTRUM terminology Edmund Lee, English Heritage |
| Update on topic map and linguistic standards David Martul, Department of Information Science, University Carlos III |
| Session 3: KOS applications and methods |
| Dynamic KOS building & management for library information systems Piotr Gawrysiak, Institute of Computer Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Henryk Rybiński, Institute for Computer and Information Engineering and Michał Okoniewski, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN |
| A method for estimating the precision of place name matching Martin Doerr, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology and Manos Papagelis, Department of Computer Science |
| Wrapping up Anna Eslau, Doug Tudhope and Marianne Lykke Nielsen |