Dear Colleagues,
Making metadata work - Monday 23rd June 2014 - BCS Office,
5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA.
Full details and booking at <
http://www.iskouk.org/events/metadata_June_2014.htm#introduction>
This event will be a showcase for the latest developments
in the evolution of the Semantic Web, exploitation of Knowledge
Organization Systems (KOS), metadata annotation to aid workflow
automation, information retrieval in networks of diverse media
assets, Linked Data, and other opportunities for using metadata.
It is a Joint Meeting of ISKO UK, IRSG (Information Retrieval
Special Interest Group of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT) and
DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative). The day will be modular:
attendance in the morning is optional, with a choice of workshop
or tutorial, while the afternoon programme is for everyone.
Morning options
a) Tutorial: Metadata management in Sharepoint (10.00
-12.00)
While Sharepoint 2013 offers more metadata capabilities than ever
before, the range of options can make it hard to implement the
most effective way. Management of controlled vocabularies is a
particular challenge. This tutorial will enable you to pick the
brains of an experienced consultant, Marc Stephenson of Metataxis.
b) Workshop: Vocabularies and the potential for linkage
(9.30 – 12.30)
Various approaches to the linkage of value vocabularies (KOSs)
and/or element set vocabularies (metadata schemas) will be
described by Pierre-Yves Vandenbussche (Fujitsu, Ireland), Dan
Brickley (Google), Gordon Dunsire and Stella Dextre Clarke, with
emphasis on the opportunities as well as the barriers to
widespread adoption. After that is a case study from Johan De
Smedt and Agis Papantoniou, both of TenForce, that draws on more
than one technique. The subsequent discussion will address the
prospects for take-up, aiming to help participants with
application or development of similar techniques and projects.
Afternoon meeting (Plenary, 14.00 – 18.00)
Martin White: The importance of metadata for high quality Search
Sean Bechhofer: Wf4Ever: metadata for “Research Objects”
Mark Sandler: Semantic Media: a new paradigm for navigable content
for the 21st century
Richard Ranft: Enhancing discovery of the British Library's audio
collections
Antoine Isaac: A portrait of Europeana as a Linked Open Data case
(in progress)
Andrew MacFarlane: Analysing creative image search queries to
determine important facets
Followed by networking, wine and nibbles from 18.00.
Registration fee and booking
Full day, including lunch and a choice of tutorial or workshop:
£120 (or £70 for members of ISKO, IRSG or DCMI and for full-time
students);
Afternoon only: £60 (or £25 for members of ISKO, IRSG or DCMI and
for full-time students).
Booking is open at <
http://www.iskouk.org/events/metadata_June_2014.htm#introduction>
About ISKO UK
ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization) is a
not-for-profit scientific/professional association with the
objective of promoting research and communication in the domain of
knowledge organization, within the broad field of information
science and related disciplines. Founded in 2007, our UK Chapter
has been attracting lively and steadily growing audiences to its
afternoon meeting series (see slides and recordings at
http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm).
Its third conference was held in July 2013 on the general theme of
“Knowledge organization – pushing the boundaries”
http://www.iskouk.org/conf2013/.
About BCS IRSG
Established in 1978, the main aim of the BCS IRSG is supporting
the communication between information retrieval (IR) researchers
and practitioners, promoting the use of IR methods in industry and
raising public awareness of IR-related topics. Recognizing IR as
an interdisciplinary field, a further aim of the BCS IRSG is to
act as a link between computer science, library and information
science and also cognate communities (like natural language
processing).
About DCMI
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is an open,
international forum for the development of interoperable online
metadata standards with diverse applications. DCMI’s activities
include consensus-driven working groups, global conferences and
workshops, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote
widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices. DCMI is
a project of ASIS&T (the Association for Information Science
and Technology).
We shall all look forward to welcoming you on the day.
Leonard Will
ISKO UK committee