| 09.00 – 09.45 | Welcome and introduction Doug Tudhope & Marianne Lykke Nielsen |
| Session 1: User-centred design issues Chair: Douglas Tudhope |
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| 09.45 – 10.15 | How a general and a specific thesaurus covers expressions in patients’ questions and physicians’ Johanna Eerola & Pertti Vakkari, University of Tampere, Finland |
| 10.15 – 10.45 | User’s perception with work task oriented thesaurus design Azam Sanatjoo, Royal School of Library and Information Science |
| 10.45 – 11.30 | (Coffee) |
| 11.30 – 12.00 | Enhancing domain-specific digital library with facilities for vocabulary exploration Marianne Lykke Nielsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Mathew Weaver, OGI School of science and Engineering, Lois Delcambre, Portland State University & Tim Tolle, USDA Forest Service |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Guest speaker Ron Davies, Consultant, Case study on agency-wide taxonomy for intergovernmental organization. Discussions on practical applications of KOS. |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | (Lunch) |
| Session 2: Mapping and semantic interoperability Chair: Traugott Koch |
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| 14.00 – 14.30 | NKOS issues in W3C’s Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS) Alistair Miles, CCLRC – Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
| 14.30 – 15.00 | The specification of a mapping schema linking the Chinese agricultural thesaurus to AGROVOC Margherita Sini, FAO |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Third order knowledge mapping R J Bater, InfoPlex Associates |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Associative retrieval over different knowledge organisation systems Peter Scheir, Stefanie Lindstaedt & Mathias Lux, Know-Center Graz |
| 16.00 – 16.30 | (Coffee) |
| Briefing session Chair: Marianne Lykke Nielsen |
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| 16.30 – 16.45 | Revision and extension of thesaurus standards Stella Dextre Clarke, Information Consultant, Luke House, West Hendred, Wantage, United Kingdom |
| 16.45 – 17.00 | Networked knowledge organisation for the networked digital library of theses and dissertations Edward A. Fox, Baoping Zhang & Ryan Richardson, Virginia Tech |
| 17.00 – 17.15 | Supporting the development of the union of computing disciplines Lillian Cassel, Villanova University, USA |
| 17.15 – 17.30 | Building virtual documents by integrating hyperbooks Gilles Falquet, Luka Nerima, Claire-Lise Mottaz Jiang & Jean-Claude Ziswiler, Centre universitaire d’informatique CUI, University of Geneva |
| 17.30 – 18.00 | Concluding directed discussion, including options for co-operation Doug Tudhope and Marianne Lykke Nielsen |