Semantic Search: Magnet for the Needle in the Search Haystack

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==============***ANNOUNCEMENT***==============

Semantic Search: Magnet for the Needle in the Search Haystack
A Joint NKOS-CENDI Workshop

DOT Media Center, Oklahoma City Room
U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington DC
Thursday, December 6, 2012 – 8:30 am-4:30 pm

What is Semantic Search? What user requirements does it seek to address?
How is Semantic Search being implemented? How can Semantic Search
technologies be evaluated? What results have we seen thus far, and what are
the areas of research that may bring future improvements? These questions
and related topics will be addressed by experts in semantic search and
related technologies, users, implementers and academic researchers. Dean
Allemang, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Data Scientist at Open Data
Registry (previously of TopQuadrant) will place semantic search in the
semantic web landscape. Dr. Denise Bedford, Goodyear Professor of Knowledge
Management at Kent State University, will discuss the various views of
semantic search. Other speakers will address linked data applications in
libraries, museums and archives; the impact of semantic search on
visualization tools; and the development of tools to support semantic
search in particular communities. Information managers and technologists
from various user communities will discuss the needs of their end users
that they are seeking to address with semantic search. Students working in
this area will provide a look at the future through a series of lightning
talks.

This workshop will be of interest to information managers, technologists,
content providers, enterprise architects and researchers across sectors.

Registration is now open. The registration and program are available from:
http://www.cendi.gov/activities/12_06_2012_CENDI_NKOS.html

Fee: Free but space is limited
Registration Closes November 26, 2012

The Program Committee:
--Gail Hodge (CENDI/IIa), Chair
--Denise Bedford (Kent State Univ.)
--Joseph Busch (Taxonomy Strategies)
--Michael Crandall (Univ. of Washington)
--Jane Greenberg (Univ. of North Carolina)
--Marjorie Hlava (Access Innovations)
--Michael Pendleton (US EPA)
--Amanda Wilson (National Transportation Library)
--Shewan Workneh (International Monetary Fund)
--Marcia Lei Zeng (Kent State Univ.)

NKOS (Networked Knowledge Organization Systems) (http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/)
is an ad hoc work group of more than 100 international experts and
implementers of knowledge organization systems. NKOS is devoted to enabling
knowledge organization systems/services (KOS), such as classification
systems, thesauri, gazetteers, and ontologies, as networked, interactive
information services to support the description and retrieval of diverse
information resources through the Internet.

CENDI (www.cendi.gov) is an interagency working group of senior scientific
and technical information managers from 13 U.S. federal agencies. CENDI’s
mission is to improve the productivity of federal science, technology and
related programs through effective information systems.