Due to restrictions associated with COVID-19 the 20^th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) workshop was unable to go ahead, however a consolidated virtual online meeting was arranged instead. The full programme and details can be found here. The list of presentations from the event are repeated below:

Welcome and introductions (PDF, 177 KB)

• Joseph Busch, Taxonomy Strategies

COVID Crisis and KOS

• AGROVOC and COVID-19 (PDF, 1,332 KB)
  
  • Imma Subirats and Kristin Kolshus, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN
• Implications of the Major Health KOSs During the COVID-19 Pandemic, A review of their efforts, coding guidelines, and usages (PDF, 1,977 KB)
  
  • Yi Hong, Department of Product Development, DeepThink Health, Inc., USA.
  • Marcia L. Zeng, School of Information, Kent State University, USA.
• Facing the World Wide Health Crisis with Vocabulary Control and Standards (Panel)
  Sponsored/supported by the ASIST Standards Committee - Marjorie Hlava (organizer) Access Innovations, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
  
  • Standards – The bedrock of our connected world (PDF, 164 KB)
    
    • Jabin White, Ithaka JSTORE, Princeton, NJ, USA.
  • Health Crisis KOS: Facing the World Wide Health Crisis with Vocabulary Control and Standards - Managing Health Policy KOS during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond (PDF, 399 KB)
    
    • Christina Rudyj, Health Affairs, Bethesda, MD, USA.
  • Cancer, Standards & Interoperability: Delivering Insights and Content (PDF, 137 KB)
    
    • Travis Hicks, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Alexandria, VA, USA.

KOS Development and Use

• Faceted Classifications as Linked Data: a Logical Analysis (PDF, 684 KB)
  
  • Claudio Gnoli, Science and Technology Library, University of Pavia, Italy
• Linked Conservation Data: Sharing Conservation Vocabularies (PDF, 2,457 KB)
  
  • Athanasios Velios, Ligatus, University of the Arts London, UK.
  • Kristen St.John, Stanford Libraries, Standard University, USA.
• Assembling Ontologies for the Discovery of New Materials (PDF, 707 KB)
  
  • Jane Greenberg, Xintong Zhao, Xiaohua Tony Hu, Metadata Research Center, Drexel University, USA.
  • Vanessa Mining, Eric Tober, Colorado School of Mines, USA.
  • Jordan Cox, Stephen Lopez, Northeastern University, USA.
  • Semion K. Saikin, Kebotix, USA.
  • Remco Change, Tufts University, USA.
  • Roman Garnett, Washington University, St. Louis, USA.

Insights into Knowledge Organization

• Evaluating Utility of Subject Headings in a Data Repository: A Preliminary Finding from a Data Search Log (PDF, 970 KB)
  
  • Rowan Brownlee, Australian Research Data Commons, Australia
  • Ying-Hsang Liu, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
  • Mingfang Wu, Australian Research Data Commons, Australia
  • Xiuzhen Zhang, RMIT University, Australia
• Methodological Considerations for Developing Art & Architecture Thesaurus in Chinese and its Applications (PDF, 3,063 KB)
  
  • Sophy Shujun Chen, Academia Sinica, Institute of History and Philology, Taipei, Taiwan
• Knowledge Organization Systems for Semantic Modeling (PDF, 499 KB)
  
  • Robert B. Allen, USA.

KOS Discrimination, Sensitivity, Users, and Uses

• Aggregation and Search: Baskets for Berrypicking (PDF, 761 KB)
  
  • Joseph Busch, Taxonomy Strategies, USA.
• Organizing Controversy: Using Semantic Annotation to Develop a Culturally Hospitable Controlled Vocabulary of an Intangible Cultural Heritage (PDF, 195 KB)
  
  • L.P. Coladangelo, College of Communication and Information, Kent State University, USA.
• Confronting and Addressing Historical Discriminations through KOS: A Case Study of Terminology in the Becker-Eisenmann Collection (PDF, 461 KB)
  
  • Brian Dobreski, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.
  • Jian Qin, Syracuse University, USA.
  • Melissa Resnick, University at Buffalo, USA.

For details of further activities and future workshops please see https://nkos.dublincore.org/