ISKOI: NKOS/CENDI workshop on KOSs: Washington: Sept 11
Gail Hodge
ghodge at IIAWEB.COM
Fri Jul 25 15:36:05 CEST 2008
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
New Dimensions in Knowledge Organization Systems
A Joint NKOS/CENDI Workshop
The World Bank
Washington, DC
September 11, 2008
CENDI and the Networked Knowledge Organization Systems Working Group
are joining together to hold a workshop on Knowledge Organization
Systems. It will be hosted by the World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW,
Washington DC on September 11, 2008. The workshop will focus on
advances in terminology systems and services. It will cover aspects
such as interoperability, mapping, collaborative KOS development,
metadata for terminology and terminology resources, registries and
standards. The Knowledge Organization Systems will cover a wide
range from authority files to formal ontologies. Speakers will
represent government, academic and commercial organizations from a
variety of disciplines including agriculture, the environment and biomedicine.
Additional information regarding the program and registration will be
posted at http://www.cendi.gov/activities/events.html by July 30.
NKOS (http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/ <http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/> ) is a
community of more than 100 practitioners from more than 10 countries
who are interested in the use of knowledge organization systems in
networked environments. This is the eighth workshop on KOS related
topics sponsored by NKOS since 1998.
CENDI (www.cendi.gov <http://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 help improve the
productivity of federal science- and technology-based programs
through effective scientific, technical and related
information-support systems.
Contact
Program Committee Chair
Gail Hodge
Information International Associates, Inc.
865-742-5430
ghodge at iiaweb.com <mailto:ghodge at iiaweb.com>
Program Committee Members
Denise Bedford, The World Bank
Marcia Lei Zeng, Kent State University
Jian Qin, Syracuse University
Diane Vizine-Goetz, OCLC
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