Description
Metadata has significantly enhanced access to digital
resources, categorizing Web pages and providing text searching for
non-text objects. The semantics (the meaning) encapsulated in this
metadata has been determined largely at the level of individual
projects or digital library collections. However, new demands for
interoperability are coming from enterprise applications, communities
of practice, and the vision of the Semantic Web. What roles can
Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS), such as thesauri, classification
schemes, and ontologies play in improving the understanding of meaning?
What best practices, tools, and services are being deployed in
practical applications? What are the outstanding issues and what
research agenda should KOS and metadata practitioners undertake
jointly? What are the connections with related DC activities, such as
semantic web applications, linguistics developments and registry work?
These sessions, organized by members of the NKOS Working Group, will
gather metadata and KOS practitioners to demonstrate accomplishments
and to discuss current and future efforts. Time will be allocated for
question and answer sessions and general discussion.
The NKOS Special Session is in two parts with
a break in the middle. The first part showcases four activities aimed
at improving the semantics of metadata.
The second part begins with case studies from two specific communities.
It concludes with a Question & Answer session aimed at sharing
experiences from the audience and reactions from a panel of experts in
metadata and KOS.
The special session is part of DC-2005, International
Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications. See http://hypermedia.research.southwales.ac.uk/kos/nkos/ and https://nkos.dublincore.org/ for previous NKOS workshops and information about NKOS generally.
