[Metadatalibrarians] Call for Participation and Demos: NKOS Dublin Core workshop

[DCMI Announce]

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16th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop at
the

*International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2016 (DC
2016)*



*Call for Presentations and Demos*



The 16th European NKOS workshop will take place on Saturday 15th October as
part of DC 2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark.



Important Dates:

*Submission deadline:* Friday, 1 July 2016

*Notification of acceptance:* Tuesday, 16th August 2016



Proposals are invited for the following:



a) *Presentations* (typically 20 minutes plus discussion time, potentially
longer if warranted) on work related to the themes of the workshop (see
below). An option for a short 5 minute project report presentation is also
possible.



b) *Demos* on work related to the themes of the workshop (see below).



Please email proposals (maximum 1000 words for presentations and 500 words
for demos, including aims, methods, main findings and underlying work,
relevance to themes of workshop) to Koraljka Golub (koraljka.golub at lnu.se).
Proposals will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. At least one
presentation author needs to register for the workshop (this is a strict
requirement).



After the workshop, copies of both proposals and presentations will be made
available on the workshop website as well as be subject to the DCMI
copyright provisions (
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2016/about/submissions#copyrightNotice).
Presentations from the workshop may be encouraged to be submitted as
extended papers for a peer reviewed journal publication.



*Themes for the 16th NKOS workshop will be:*


(1) KOS Alignment. KOS alignment or terminology mapping plays a vital role
in NKOS for many years. This year we want to sort out the needs (use cases)
of KOS alignments in the new environment of Linked Open Data. We plan to
collect methodologies, best practices, guidelines and tools. This includes
manual and automatic alignments.

(2) KOS Linked Open Data. Recent years have seen an increasing trend to
publication of KOS as Linked Data vocabularies. We need discussion of
practical initiatives to link between congruent vocabularies and provide
effective web services and APIs so that applications can build upon them.

(3) Subject metadata for research data. With increasing recognition of the
need to manage research data as part of universities research output,
subject metadata represent particular challenges that need to be addressed
from theoretical as well as practical perspectives. We plan to discuss
existing issues, especially in terms of interoperability across disciplines
as well as applications, and strive towards establishment of best practices
and guidelines.



*Further timely presentations/demonstrations will be selected from the
following topics in the CfP:*


(4) KOS-based recommender systems. The suggestion of the right meaningful
concepts is a mission critical phase for searchers in modern DL.

(5) Meaningful Concept Display and Meaningful Visualization of KOS.

(6) Standards developments.

(7) Evaluation of KOS-based systems – methods and practical experience.


*KOS applications are a regular and important part of NKOS workshops.
Example topics include:*


(8) KOS in e-Research metadata contexts - intersection between research
data, KOS, Semantic web.

(9) Social tagging. What is the role of social tagging and informal
knowledge structures versus established KOS? (How) can tagging be guided
and informed by KOS?

(10) Users interaction with KOS in the online environment.

(11) KOS and learning. What is required to use KOS effectively to convey
meaning, to assist users to express their information needs to assist in
sense making and learning?

(12) Multilingual and Interdisciplinary KOS applications and tools.

(13) Specific domains, such as environmental, medical, new application
contexts, etc.



More information on the workshop can be found under



https://at-web1.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/research/hypermedia/nkos/nkos2016-dc/call-for-papers.html



We hope to see you in Copenhagen, Denmark.



Please note that workshop presenter entry into Denmark may be subject to Visa
requirements (see

https://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-us/coming_to_dk/visa/visa.htm).



Best regards,

NKOS workshop organizing committee


*Koraljka Golub (primary contact)*, Department of Library and Information
Science, School of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities,
Linnaeus University | 351 95 Växjö | Sweden | Tel: +46 (0) 470 70 8909 |
Fax: +46 (0) 470 751888 | E-mail:koraljka.golub at lnu.se |
http://koraljka.info

*Joacim Hansson*, Department of Library and Information Science, School of
Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Linnaeus University |
351 95 Växjö | Sweden | Tel: +46 (0) 470 70 8971 | Fax: +46 (0) 470 751888 |
E-mail: joacim.hansson at lnu.se |

*Maria Johnsson*, Section of Scholarly Communication, Lund University
Library, Lund University | PO Box 3, SE-22100 Lund | Sweden | Tel +46 (0)
222 90 40 | E-mail:maria.johnsson at ub.lu.se |

*Monica Lassi*, Section of Scholarly Communication, Lund University
Library, Lund University | PO Box 3, SE-22100 Lund | Sweden | Tel +46 (0)
222 01 06 | E-mail:monica.lassi at ub.lu.se |


*Douglas Tudhope*, Hypermedia Research Group Faculty of Computing,
Engineering and Science University of South Wales, Pontypridd, CF37 1DL, UK
dstudhope at glam.ac.ukhttp://hypermedia.research.southwales.ac.uk/kos/