Knowledge Organization Systems: Managing to the Future
A Joint CENDI/NKOS Workshop
National Agricultural Library * Reading Room * Beltsville, MD
October 22, 2009
Final Program (MS Word)
8:30 Registration and Networking
INTRODUCTION
9:00 am
- Welcome from NKOS (Gail Hodge, IIa)
- Welcome from NAL and CENDI (Eleanor Frierson, Deputy Director, NAL)
TOWARD A SHARED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT (Moderator: Lori Finch, NAL)
9:15 am Sharing Terminologies Through Registries: Contributed Controlled Vocabularies (Marjorie Hlava, Access Innovations, Inc.) (PDF)
9:45 am The EPA Terminology Services: Toward Better Terminology Management and Use (Michael Pendleton, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) (PDF)
10:15 am Break
10:45 am Subject Matter Expert Thesaurus Review: Improving Collaboration with Researchers (Gail Rayburn, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory) (PDF)
TOWARD INTEROPERABILITY (Moderator: Marjorie Hlava, Access Innovations)
11:15 am Interoperable Thesauri: The Challenges and Experiences of the HIVE Project (Jane Greenberg, Univ. of North Carolina, School of Library and Information Science) (PDF)
11:45 Lunch
12:45 pm ISO 25964: Thesauri and Interoperability with Other Vocabularies (Marcia Lei Zeng, Kent State Univ.) (PDF)
1:10 Dublin Core application profiles in context (Thomas Baker, DCMI) (PPT)
1:30 pm Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) Update and Implementation at the Library of Congress (Ed Summers and Rebecca Guenther, Library of Congress) (PDF)
2:00 pm Break
TOWARD ONTOLOGIES AND THE SEMANTIC WEB (Moderator: Michael Pendleton, EPA)
2:15 pm Evaluating Ontology Alignment Techniques (Willem Robert van Hage, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) (PDF)
2:45 pm NCI Thesaurus: Managing Toward an Ontology (Gilberto Fragoso, EVS Infrastructure, National Cancer Institute/NIH) (PDF)
3:15 pm Open Ontology Repositories (Denise Bedford, The World Bank) (PDF)
3:45 pm Wrap Up (Gail Hodge, IIa)
4:00 pm Adjourn