Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services
NKOS

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

URL: http://nkos.slis.kent.edu
Last updated: May 25, 2010

Announcement

1. Call for Presentations and posters: 9th European NKOS Workshop at Ecdl2010 in Glasgow
Submission deadline: 14th June 2010  
Notification of acceptance: 12th July 2010
Workshop: 9th-10th September 2010

Full details at http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/research/hypermedia/nkos/nkos2010/call-for-papers.html

2. A DCMI/NKOS Task Group was formed on 2009-12-21 to develop a Dublin Core Appplicaiton Profile for KOS Resources.

3. ISO 25964. Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies

Work has been under way since May 2008 to revise and extend the International standards for thesauri, ISO 2788 and ISO 5964. The content of these two standards, plus a lot more material needed to support interoperability, will be combined in a new standard ISO 25964, as follows:

ISO 25964. Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies

The work is managed by a Working Group known as ISO TC46/SC9/WG8, which has participants from 13 countries and is led by Stella Dextre Clarke of the UK. The Secretariat is provided by NISO (USA). See official website at http://www.niso.org/workrooms/iso25964. The existing British Standard BS 8723 (published in 5 parts during 2005-2008) is being used as a basis for the international work.

A draft of Part 1 of ISO 25964, which will have the number ISO DIS 25964-1, was released in late 2009 for public comment. To obtain a copy, ask the national standards body in your country.

Until DIS 25964-1 is issued, the most recent published news is in the ASIS&T Bulletin, at http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Oct-08/OctNov08_DextreClark.pdf

 

DCMI/NKOS Task Group

On-going projects of KOS Registries and Terminology Services

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

 

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)