KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS:
CURRENT AND FUTURE USES AMONG CENDI AGENCIES
Final Agenda
A CENDI Staff Workshop
September 16, 2004
EPA West
14th Street and Constitution Avenue – Room 5126
(Federal Triangle Metro)
Washington , DC
Knowledge Organization Systems, including thesauri, glossaries, authority files, classification schemes, and subject categorization schemes, have been used by many CENDI agencies for decades. How are these resources changing? How are they being created and maintained and what functions do they provide, particularly in a Web environment? What is the connection between more traditional resources and ontologies and taxonomies? How will these resources be used in the future? Learn what other CENDI agencies are doing in this area and participate in a discussion of future joint activities among CENDI agencies.
8:30am Registration
9:00 am Welcome (Rick Martin, Deputy Director, Office of Environmental information, Office of Information Analysis and Access, EPA)
Logistics (Richard Huffine, EPA)
Introductions (Gail Hodge, CENDI)
9:15 am The NASA Thesaurus as an On-Line Tool (Carol Sanderson, NASA STI Program)
9:45 am Controlled Vocabulary at DTIC (John Dickert, Defense Technical Information Center) Handouts
10:15 am Break
10:30 am NAL Agricultural Thesaurus Web Services (Lori Finch and Tim Lynch, National Agricultural Library)
11:00 am Knowledge Organization Systems: Current and Future Uses (Betsy Humphreys, National Library of Medicine)
11:30 am Prospects for Integration of Thesauri and Taxonomies Across Agencies. (David Wojick, Office of Scientific and Technical Information/Department of Energy) Presentation Summary, Presentation Handouts, Energy Taxonomy summary
and
Descriptor Selection Tool for the ETDE/INIS Thesaurus (William Watson, Office of Scientific and Technical Information) Presentation Screen Capture Slides, Slide Captions, Notes on Producing Taxonomies
Noon Lunch (EPA Cafeteria)
1:00 pm The ERIC Thesaurus: Tradition and Change (Luna Levinson, National Library of Education)
1:30 pm The CSA/NBII Biocomplexity Thesaurus: Current Initiatives,
Future Directions (Lisa Zolly, US Geological Survey)
2:00 pm NARA 's New Authority Sources: Authority Files and Thesauri in ARC (C. Jerry Simmons, National Archives and Records Administration)
2:30 pm Break
2:45 pm EPA’s Controlled Vocabulary, Thesauri and Terminology Projects (Richard Huffine, EPA)
3:30pm Discussion: Opportunities for Cooperation, Research Agenda Development, Follow-on Activities (All)
3:45pm Wrap-up
4:00 pm Adjourn
