NEW DIMENSIONS IN
KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS

Sponsored by CENDI and the Networked Knowledge Organization Systems Working Group
Hosted by The World Bank

The World Bank, Washington, DC
Board Room, 13th Floor
September 11, 2008

Note: Unless otherwise noted, presentations are provided in Adobe .pdf files linked from the presentation title
   
7:00-9:00am Badging, Registration and Networking
9:00 am Welcome and Program Introduction
Gail Hodge, NKOS Program Chair/CENDI Secretariat
Aileen Morse, Enterprise Architect, The World Bank
Knowledge Organization Systems
9:15 am Present and Future Standards (Sue Ellen Wright, Kent State Univ.)
9:45 am SKOS: New Dimensions in Interoperability (Ed Summers, Library of Congress) and Jon Phipps (Cornell Univ.)
10:15 am Break
10:45 am Knowledge Organization Systems and Search (Jay Ven Eman, Access Innovations, Inc.)
11:15 am Experiences in Mapping Multiple Vocabularies in Agriculture (Lori Finch, National Agricultural Library)
11:45 am Lunch
12:45 pm Folksonomies and Taxonomies: Where the Two Can Meet (Jian Qin, Syracuse University)
Knowledge Organization Services
1:15 pm Terminology Services (Diane Vizine-Goetz, OCLC) (ppt will be available at OCLC site)
1:45 pm Semantic Media Wiki: A Tool for Collaborative Vocabulary Development (Harold Solbrig, Mayo Clinic)  
2:15 pm Metadata for Terminology Resources (Marcia Lei-Zeng, Kent State Univ.)
2:45 pm Break
3:15 pm OSTI Word Web: A Search Tool Using an Integrated Taxonomy and Thesaurus of Science (David Wojick, Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
3:45 pm Open Ontology Registries (Frank Olken, National Science Foundation)
4:15 pm  Using Vocabularies on the GRID (Denise Warzel, National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health)
4:45pm Wrap Up (Gail Hodge, CENDI Secretariat)
5:00pm Adjourn