[InetBib] Invitation to participate in the NKOS workshop at TPDL (formerly ECDL), Berlin, Sept 28-29

[Traugott Koch <traugott.koch@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You are cordially invited to attend the 10th European Networked 
Knowledge Organisation Systems (NKOS) Workshop.
SKOS, linked data and the relationship between ontologies and other 
Knowledge Organisation Systems are the main themes.

The (preliminary) NKOS workshop programme can be seen below and, of 
course, at our workshop website (with added abstracts): 
http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/research/hypermedia/nkos/nkos2011/

It is possible to register for the workshop only, as well as for the 
whole conference plus the workshop, at: http://www.tpdl2011.org/

We look forward to seeing you, three weeks from now, in Berlin.

Best regards,
Traugott Koch
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Preliminary Workshop Programme

Wednesday 28th September, 2011
14.00 – 14.30 Welcome and introduction to workshop and participants

Session 1: SKOS, linked data
Chair: TBA

14.30 – 15.00  Johannes Keizer, Armando Stellato, Ahsan Morshed, Gudrun 
Johannsen, Yves Jacques, Caterina Caracciolo, Sachit Rajbhandari, Imma 
Subirats, FAO, University of Rome. A collaborative framework for 
managing and publishing KOS

15.00 – 15.15 Christian Mader, Bernhard Haslhofer, University of Vienna, 
Cornell University. Quality criteria for controlled web vocabularies


15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break


16.00 – 16.30 Benjamin Zapilko, Ahsan Morshed, Gudrun Johannsen, Philipp 
Mayr, Johannes Keizer, GESIS, FAO. Evaluating approaches to 
automatically match thesauri from different domains for Linked Open Data

16.30 – 17.00  Johan De Smedt, TenForce. SKOS extensions to cover 
mapping requirements

17.00 – 17.30  Mark Tomko, Simmons College. Translating biological data 
sets into Linked Data

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


Thursday 29th September, 2011

Session 2: Ontology special session
Chair: TBA

09.00 – 09.30  Daniel Kless. University of Melbourne

09.30 – 10.00  Antoine Isaac (et al), University of Amsterdam

10.00 – 10.30  Douglas Tudhope, University of Glamorgan. Complimentary 
use of ontologies and (other) KOS


10.30 – 11.00   Coffee Break


Session 3: Further topics
Chair: TBA

11.00 – 11.30   Wilko van Hoek, Brigitte Mathiak, Philipp Mayr, Sascha 
Schüller, GESIS. Comparing the accuracy of the semantic similarity 
provided by the Normalized Google Distance (NGD) and the Search Term 
Recommender (STR)

11.30 – 12.00   Denise Bedford, Kent State University. Selecting and 
weighting semantically discovered concepts as social tags

12.00 – 12.30  Lightning talks, further communications, conclusion


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Traugott Koch
Max Planck Digital Library. F.-Haber-Inst., Faradayweg 4-6, G 1.03
D-14195 Berlin, Germany.  Tel: +49 30 84133725
E-mail: traugott.koch@xxxxxxxxxxx
Homepage: http://www.mpdl.mpg.de/staff/tkoch/
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