UKOLN News

All presentations from the Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) workshop held at ECDL 2006 on 21 September are now available. They include FAO, HILT and semantic digital library projects, semantic components indexing, hyperbooks, wikipedia categories, a theory of retrieval using structured vocabularies and a new effort to develop a KOS Typology.

A short paper entitled “Collaboration as the Keystone for Successful Management of Digital Records”, which formed the basis of Maureen Pennock”s recent presentation to the ICA/SUV Annual Seminar held in Reykjavik, Iceland, is now available together with the accompanying graphical presentation.

A paper by Monica Duke of UKOLN was accepted and presented at a workshop at the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2006. The paper and slides from the presentation are now available.

A paper by Emma Tonkin of UKOLN has been accepted for inclusion in the forthcoming Dublin Core Conference 2006. The paper, entitled “Signed metadata : method and application”, explores the potential use of a public-key infrastructure (PKI) for digital signature of metadata records. Julie Allinson of UKOLN will present the paper on Emma”s behalf on 6 October.

Places are still available on a UKOLN workshop on “Exploiting the Potential of Wikis” which will address a variety of issues in the context of their use in Higher Education institutions. These will include how they relate to other technologies, the sustainability and support of Wikis, and their evaluation and deployment. This workshop will be held at Austin Court, Birmingham on Friday 3 November 2006.

Julie Allinson of UKOLN and Andy Powell of the Eduserv Foundation will be chairing a special session on metadata for scholarly publications (eprints) at the forthcoming Dublin Core conference in Mexico on 4 October 2006. The session will present work undertaken in the UK to develop a DC application profile for describing eprints. This work is unusual in that it has adopted FRBR as the underlying model, using the DC Abstract Model notion of a “description set” to capture a set of related descriptions about each of the main FRBR entities.

Brian Kelly will speak on this topic to the 2006 Conference of the Association of UK Media Librarians (AUKML) on Saturday 23 September. The conference, entitled “The 21st Century Information Professional”, will take place at the Point Hotel, Edinburgh, over 22-24 September 2006.

Slides from Maureen Pennock”s presentation on this topic to the recent ICA/SUV Annual Seminar, “Shared Concerns and Responsibility for University Records and Archives”, held recently in Reykjavik, Iceland, are now available.

A full-day workshop, discussing networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) projects, research, and development, will take place at ECDL 2006 on 21 September 2006. It features sessions about KOS representation and services, User participation and semantic components, KOS Typology and on Semantic Web approaches. Traugott Koch, UKOLN, is the main organiser.

This will be the theme of the CILIPS/SLAINTE conference on electronic information and libraries to be held in Dundee on 27 September 2006. Maureen Pennock of UKOLN will run a session entitled “From Digital Creation to Digital Curation” which will explore the challenges of managing digital cultural heritage resources in regional and local libraries to ensure preservation and accessibility.