Call for Presentations and demos

The 16^th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) workshop will take place on Saturday 15th October as part of DC 2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: Friday, 1 July 2016
• Notification of acceptance: Tuesday, 16th August 2016

Proposals are invited for the following:

a) Presentations (typically 20 minutes plus discussion time, potentially longer if warranted) on work related to the themes of the workshop (see below). An option for a short 5 minute project report presentation is also possible.

b) Demos on work related to the themes of the workshop (see below).

Please email proposals (maximum 1000 words for presentations and 500 words for demos, including aims, methods, main findings and underlying work, relevance to themes of workshop) to Koraljka Golub (koraljka.golub@lnu.se). Proposals will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. At least one presentation author needs to register for the workshop (this is a strict requirement).

After the workshop, copies of both proposals and presentations will be made available on the workshop website as well as be subject to the DCMI copyright provisions. Presentations from the workshop may be encouraged to be submitted as extended papers for a peer reviewed journal publication.

Themes for the 16th NKOS workshop will be:

1. KOS Alignment. KOS alignment or terminology mapping plays a vital role in NKOS for many years. This year we want to sort out the needs (use cases) of KOS alignments in the new environment of Linked Open Data. We plan to collect methodologies, best practices, guidelines and tools. This includes manual and automatic alignments.
2. KOS Linked Open Data. Recent years have seen an increasing trend to publication of KOS as Linked Data vocabularies. We need discussion of practical initiatives to link between congruent vocabularies and provide effective web services and APIs so that applications can build upon them.
3. Subject metadata for research data. With increasing recognition of the need to manage research data as part of universities research output, subject metadata represent particular challenges that need to be addressed from theoretical as well as practical perspectives. We plan to discuss existing issues, especially in terms of interoperability across disciplines as well as applications, and strive towards establishment of best practices and guidelines.

Further timely presentations/demonstrations will be selected from the following topics in the CfP:

4. KOS-based recommender systems. The suggestion of the right meaningful concepts is a mission critical phase for searchers in modern DL.
5. Meaningful Concept Display and Meaningful Visualization of KOS.
6. Standards developments.
7. Evaluation of KOS-based systems – methods and practical experience.
KOS applications are a regular and important part of NKOS workshops. Example topics include:
8. KOS in e-Research metadata contexts - intersection between research data, KOS, Semantic web.
9. Social tagging. What is the role of social tagging and informal knowledge structures versus established KOS? (How) can tagging be guided and informed by KOS?
10. Users interaction with KOS in the online environment.
11. KOS and learning. What is required to use KOS effectively to convey meaning, to assist users to express their information needs to assist in sense making and learning?
12. Multilingual and Interdisciplinary KOS applications and tools.
13. Specific domains, such as environmental, medical, new application contexts, etc.

Preliminary programme

Invited talk by Noriko Kando on KOS in information retrieval

Accepted papers:

• Johan Åhlfeldt: Networked Knowledge Organization Systems and Services (KOS) in Humanities Research and Cultural Heritage Collections
• Joseph Busch: KOS Design for Healthcare Decision-making Based on Consumer Criteria and User Stories
• Drahomira Cupar, Martina Dragija Ivanović, Kristina Berketa, Koraljka Golub: Evaluation of KOS in networked information systems
• Mikko Lappalainen, Matias Frosterus: National Library as a Public Sector Metadata Curator - The Finto Ontology Infrastructure
• Andreas Ledl, Jakob Voss: Interoperability of KOS Metadata Schemas in BARTOC and JSKOS
• Haiqing Lin: Publishing Pre-modern Chinese Classification schemes as linked data: an experiment report
• Kim Tallerås: Subject data in national bibliographies published as Linked data
• Jian Qin, Marcia Zeng: Linking Bioinformatics Research data and Publications through Metadata and Knowledge Organization Systems

Program committee

• Vladimir Alexiev, Ontotext Corp., Bulgaria
• Ceri Binding, University of South Wales, UK
• Claudio Gnoli, University of Pavia, Italy
• Koraljka Golub, Department of Library and Information Science, Linnaeus University, Sweden
• Joacim Hansson, Department of Library and Information Science, Linnaeus University, Sweden
• Daniel Hienert, GESIS, Germany
• Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and National Library of the Netherlands
• Philipp Mayr, GESIS, Germany
• Philipp Schaer, GESIS, Germany
• Aida Slavic, UDC Consortium, London, UK
• Dagobert Soergel, University of Buffalo, USA
• Joseph Tennis, Information School, University of Washington, USA
• Diane Vizine-Goetz, OCLC Research, USA
• Marcia Zeng, Kent State University, USA
• Monica Lassi, Lund University Library, Sweden
• Maria Johnsson, Lund University Library, Sweden

We hope to see you in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Please note that workshop presenter entry into Denmark may be subject to Visa requirements
(see https://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-us/coming_to_dk/visa/visa.htm).

Best regards,
NKOS workshop organizing committee

Koraljka Golub (primary contact), Department of Library and Information Science, School of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Linnaeus University | 351 95 Växjö | Sweden | Tel: +46 (0) 470 70 8909 | Fax: +46 (0) 470 751888 | E-mail: koraljka.golub@lnu.se| http://koraljka.info

Joacim Hansson Department of Library and Information Science, School of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Linnaeus University | 351 95 Växjö | Sweden | Tel: +46 (0) 470 70 8971 | Fax: +46 (0) 470 751888 | E-mail: joacim.hansson@lnu.se |

Maria Johnsson, Section of Scholarly Communication, Lund University Library, Lund University | PO Box 3, SE-22100 Lund | Sweden | Tel +46 (0) 222 90 40 | E-mail: maria.johnsson@ub.lu.se |

Monica Lassi, Section of Scholarly Communication, Lund University Library, Lund University | PO Box 3, SE-22100 Lund | Sweden | Tel +46 (0) 222 01 06 | E-mail: monica.lassi@ub.lu.se |

Douglas Tudhope, Hypermedia Research Group, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science University of South Wales, Pontypridd, CF37 1DL, UK douglas.tudhope@southwales.ac.uk http://hypermedia.research.southwales.ac.uk/kos/