Re: Practical applications of networking standards for KOS

Dear Ron,

CEN, one of three European ICT standards organizations, started a year 
ago a workshop called ADNOM.
The aim of this Workshop is to establish and maintain a network between 
European government translation units, terminology organizations, etc. 
with the purpose of developing and disseminating European Administrative 
Nomenclature, built as far as possible on the basis of existing networks 
and resources.

You can find information about ADNOM at:
http://www.cenorm.be/cenorm/businessdomains/businessdomains/isss/activity/adnom.asp

Next week Tuesday 14 February is also a meeting close to you in Brussels 
in case you are interested.

Best regards,

Gabriel

Project Team member ADNOM

Ron Davies wrote:

> My apologies in advance for cross-posting.
>
> For a presentation this spring, I am trying to collect information on 
> practical, real world uses of standards for sharing and making use of 
> networked knowledge organisation systems. Knowledge organisation 
> systems (KOS) of course include classification schemes, subject 
> heading lists, thesauri, ontologies and other controlled vocabularies. 
> Uses might include migrating schemes from a management system to a 
> retrieval application or another management application, translation 
> of a thesaurus from one natural language to another,  translating 
> searches from one indexing language to another (or from one natural 
> language to another), and expanding or enriching queries.
>
> If you are using a standard for presenting the content of 
> classification schemes, thesauri or ontologies in a networked 
> environment or a standard protocol for accessing that information, 
> please send me some brief information or references to your 
> application, and (ideally) a URL where this information will be 
> available. If you are not using a standard, but are still doing any of 
> the above, I would also be interested in hearing about your 
> application. I will, of course, summarise responses for the list.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Ron
>
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