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NKOS is devoted to the discussion of the functional and data model for 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.

Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (KOS) model the underlying semantic structure of a domain. Embodied as Web-based services, they can facilitate resource discovery and retrieval. They act as semantic road maps and make possible a common orientation by indexers and future users (whether human or machine). -- Douglas Tudhope, Traugott Koch, New Applications of Knowledge Organization Systems

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Last updated: March 5, 2013

Announcement

ISO published ISO 25964-2 the standard for interoperability of thesauri on 4 March 2013. ISO 25964-2 deals with interoperability between thesauri and other vocabularies, especially the principles and practice of mapping between them. Types of vocabulary to be considered include classification schemes (including those for records management), taxonomies, subject heading schemes, name authority lists, ontologies, terminologies, and synonym rings.
News Release in PDF

Links to the recorded sessions and PPTs are added.
Semantic Search: Magnet for the Needle in the Search Haystack,
A Joint NKOS-CENDI Workshop, December 6, 2012, DOT Media Center, U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington DC.
Program (with available PPT): http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/2012workshop/NKOS-CENDI2012.htm



DCMI/NKOS Task Group

Projects of KOS Registries, Terminology Services, and Standard Development

NKOS Listserv

Related Publications

Past Workshops and Special Meetings

US NKOS Workshops (see also ECDL NKOS Workshops at next section)

European NKOS Workshops (see also US NKOS Workshops above )

International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) conferences

NKOS Workshops at DCxx International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications

Other NKOS meetings and sessions

"Linked Data --Enabling Standards and Other Approaches" -- Panel presentations at ASIS- 2010

  1. Gail Hodge: Introduction.
  2. Sam Oh: Linked Data and Identifiers. (ISO TC46/SC9 (Identification and Description activities updates; the second edition of Web Ontology Language (OWL2))
  3. Jon Phipps: SKOS: A W3C Recommendation.
  4. Ed Summers: RDFa -- Linked Data on the Web We Have. (external link)
  5. Mark Needleman and Jody DeRidder: NISO I2 (Institutional Identifiers)
  6. Marcia Zeng, Jon Phipps, and Ed Summers: Introducing W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group (LLD XG)

"Knowledge Organization:   Evaluating Foundation and Function in the Information Ecosystem" -- Panel presentations at ASIS- 2010

Web Service-based Applications: Optimizing Indexing, Searching, and Terminology Services, ASIST 2008 (Link to program description).
. . Rebecca Guenther. A Registry for controlled vocabularies at the Library of Congress (ppt)
. . Diane Vizine-Goetz. OCLC Terminology Services beta: Architecture & Standards (link)
. . Dongming Zhang. Developing a Webservice-based MeSH indexing Tool for Health Science Repository System (ppt)

NKOS Registry

Taxonomy of Knowledge Organization Systems

Vocabulary Mark-up Language (Voc-ML)

Vocabulary ML: Metacode strawman DTD draft (developed in 2000, superseded by other activities such as SKOS and some of the ISO standards work on terminologies)


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