Knowledge Organization Systems - Managing Toward the Future

A Joint CENDI/NKOS Workshop Hosted by The National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD

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 National Agricultural Library,
Beltsville, MD on October 22, 2009 in the Main Reading Room.
The workshop will focus on approaches to the management of knowledge
organization systems that will support emerging and future requirements
and use cases. It will cover aspects such as metadata for terminology
and terminology resources, registries, standards, interoperability,
collaborative workflows for development and expert review, and
management software. The use cases will range from metadata input to
search and decision support. 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 biomedicine, the environment, and
earth science.