Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services
NKOS

NKOS is devoted to the discussion of the functional and data model for enabling knowledge organization systems (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.

Announcement

1. Please contribute to 2008 NKOS workshops. (Share your ideas at our wiki http://colab.mpdl.mpg.de/mediawiki/NKOSevents_2008_preparation .)

2. Available now: all materials presented at the 6th European NKOS Workshop (September 21st, as part of ECDL 2007 in Budapest).

3. Tenth International ISKO Conference, Montréal, Canada, August 5-8, 2008. Conference website: http://www.ebsi.umontreal.ca/isko2008/
Conference Theme: Culture and Identity in Knowledge Organization

On-going projects of KOS Registries and Terminology Services

NKOS Listserv

Related Publications

Past Workshops and Special Meetings

ECDL NKOS Workshops

JCDL NKOS Workshops (for 2006 and later workshops, see ECDL NKOS Workshops above)

International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) conferences

Other NKOS meetings

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Vocabulary ML: Metacode strawman DTD draft (developed in 2000, superseded by other activities such as SKOS and some of the ISO standards work on terminologies)