Networked Knowledge Organization Systems and Services

The 9th European NKOS Workshop at the 14th ECDL Conference, Glasgow, Scotland

Thursday 9th (start 2:30pm) – Friday 10th (finish 1.15pm) September 2010

Workshop Details Call for Papers Programme / Presentations ECDL 2010 ECDL NKOS Workshops NKOS Network

Workshop Programme (Venue: BO Theatre A)

Thursday 9th September

  • 14.30 – 15.00 Welcome and introduction to workshop and participants (Doug Tudhope)
    • slides (PDF, 21KB)

Session 1: Mapping, mapping relationships and retrieval performance

Chair: Vivien Petras

  • 15.00 – 15.30 Antoine Isaac. Progress in semantic mapping (Invited Presentation)
    • slides (PDF, 1692KB)
  • 15.30 – 16.00 Stella Dextre Clarke. Types of mapping recommended in ISO 25964, and the question of reciprocity (Invited Presentation)
    • slides (PDF, 79KB)
  • 16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
  • 16.30 – 17.00 Mapping discussion
  • 17.00 – 17.15 Felix Boteram. Stratified semantic relations: Information retrieval and knowledge exploration in distributed knowledge organization systems
    • abstract (PDF, 44KB)
    • slides (PDF, 636KB)
  • 17.15 – 17.45 Philipp Mayr, Peter Mutschke, Philipp Schaer, York Sure. Search term recommendation and non-textual ranking evaluated
    • abstract (PDF, 71KB)
    • slides (PDF, 799KB)
  • 17.45 – 18.30 Demonstration session (using participants’ own laptops)
    • Thomas Schandl - PoolParty
      • video - thesaurus management (WMV, 4328KB)
      • video - document processing (WMV, 6613KB)
      • video - linked data (WMV, 8578KB)
    • Ceri Binding - STAR Demonstrator
      • demo (PDF, 157 KB)
    • Margie Hlava - DataHarmony

The session will be followed by the usual informal evening dinner where discussions can continue. The venue will be announced at the workshop.

Friday 10th September

Session 2: User centred KOS design and evaluation

Chair: Stella Dextre Clarke

  • 09.00 – 09.30 Anna Mastora and Sarantos Kapidakis. Users and KOSs: When Can We Trust Those Two Together for Conceptual Query Expansion?
    • abstract (PDF, 30KB)
    • slides (PDF, 676KB)
  • 09.30 – 09.45 Louise Spiteri, Laurel Tarulli, Alyssa Graybeal. The public library catalogue as a social space: Transaction log analysis of user interaction with social discovery systems
    • abstract (PDF, 59KB)
    • slides (PDF, 140KB)
  • 09.45 – 10.00 Hugo Manguinhas, José Borbinha. Integrating Knowledge Organization Systems Registries with Metadata Registries
    • abstract (PDF, 34KB)
    • slides (PDF, 330KB)
  • 10.00 – 10.15 Margie Hlava. Using KOS as a basis for text analytics and trend forecasting
    • abstract (PDF, 23KB)
    • slides (PDF, 2285KB)
  • 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break

Session 3. SKOS and linked data

Chair: Antoine Isaac

  • 11.00 – 11.15 Johannes Hercher, Harald Sack. Indexing Audiovisual Heritage in Germany by SKOSification of Existing Vocabularies
    • abstract (PDF, 117KB)
    • slides (PDF, 2539KB)
  • 11.15 – 11.45 Ceri Binding, Doug Tudhope. KOS-based tools for archaeological dataset interoperability
    • abstract (PDF, 19KB)
    • slides (PDF, 1060KB)
  • 11.45 – 12.15 Riccardo Albertoni, Monica De Martino, Franca Giannini. SKOS and semantic web best practice to access terminological resources: NatureSDIPlus and CHRONIOUS hands-on experience
    • abstract (PDF, 23KB)
    • slides (PDF, 1507KB)
  • 12.15 – 12.45 Thomas Schandl, Andreas Blumauer, Helmut Nagy. Using Linked Data in Thesaurus Management
    • abstract (PDF, 66KB)
    • slides (PDF, 9351KB)
  • 12.45 – 13.15 Discussion and conclusions
  • 13.15 – 14.00 Lunch

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