Reminder: cfp NKOS 2007 workshop at ECDL 2007

Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services  
 
The 6th European NKOS Workshop will take place on September 21st, as part of ECDL 2007 in Budapest. It builds on the previous NKOS Workshops at ECDL 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. Proposals are invited for presentations (typically 20 minutes plus discussion time, potentially longer if the substance and importance warrant it) on work or projects related to the themes of the workshop or to NKOS more generally. 
 
Presentations from the Workshop may be invited to submit as extended papers to the electronic peer reviewed journal: Journal of Digital Information, JoDI (http://jodi.tamu.edu/).

Please email proposals (approx. 500 words including aims, methods, main findings) by June 29th to Douglas Tudhope (dstudhope@glam.ac.uk). Advance indication that you intend to submit a presentation would be helpful. Proposals will be peer-reviewed by the program committee and notification of acceptance will be given by July 17th. The early registration deadline for the conference and the workshop is July 31st.

The workshop aims to address key challenges for NKOS posed by the overlapping themes of
Social tagging 
Semantic Web applications and implications of KOS 
Terminology for language-oriented applications 
Terminology registry 
Terminology services 
KOS Interoperability 
User-centred design issues 

Other NKOS related topics can also be proposed and more details can be found on the workshop website: http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/research/hypermedia/nkos/nkos2007/. 

For inspiration, visit the NKOS network website at: http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/. After the workshop, copies of presentations will be made available on the workshop website.

Main Contact:  
Douglas Tudhope,
Hypermedia Research Unit, Faculty of Advanced Technology,
University of Glamorgan
Pontypridd, CF37 1DL, Wales, UK
Email: dstudhope@glam.ac.uk
http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/staff/dstudhope
 
Co-organisers:
Traugott Koch Max Planck Digital Library, Invalidenstr. 35, D-101 15 Berlin, Germany, traugott.koch@mpdl.mpg.de
Marianne Lykke Nielsen,  Royal School of Library and Information Science, Aalborg Branch, Aalborg, Denmark, mln@db.dk
 

Received on Tuesday, 26 June 2007 10:36:36 UTC