Preliminary Programme

Programme Booklet [pdf, 512Kb]	Posters
Programme at a Glance [pdf, 70Kb]

Day One – 19 September

09:00	Registration
09:45	Welcome from UDC Consortium (Alan Hopkinson), Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Els van Eijck van Heslinga), Programme Committee (Aida Slavic)
10:00	Keynote address: On being the same Patrick Hayes Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (USA)

11:00

Coffee/Tea

Session 1 The role of classification and ontology on the Web Chair: Dagobert Soergel

11:30	The concepts of knowledge organization systems as hubs in the Web of data Thomas Baker, DCMI (USA)
12:10	Issues in publishing and aligning Web vocabularies Guus Schreiber, VU University Amsterdam (Netherlands)
12:50	Classification, collaboration and the Web of data Dan Brickley, VU University Amsterdam (Netherlands)

13:30	Lunch
14:10	Brief Posters introduction (conference room)

Session 2 Classifications and ontologies on their own terms Chair: Roberto Poli

14:30	Approaches to providing context in knowledge representation structures Barbara H. Kwaśnik, Syracuse University (USA)
15:10	Interactions between elementary structures in universes of knowledge Richard Smiraglia, University of Wisconsin (USA) Charles van den Heuvel, Huygens Institute ING, KNAW (Netherlands) Thomas M. Dousa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
15:40	Demystifying ontology Emad Khazraee, Drexel University (USA) Xia Lin, Drexel University (USA)

16:10

Coffee/Tea

Session 3 Classification meets the Web Chair: Antoine Isaac

16:40	Interoperability of knowledge organization systems with and through ontologies Daniel Kless, University of Melbourne (Australia) Jutta Lindenthal, Information Consultant, Lübeck (Germany) Simon Milton, University of Melbourne (Australia) Edmund Kazmierczak, University of Melbourne (Australia)
17:10	Towards the integration of knowledge organization systems with the linked data cloud Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento (Italy) Feroz Farazi, University of Trento (Italy)
17:40	Classification and reference vocabulary in linked environment data Maria Rüther, Federal Environment Agency (Germany) Joachim Fock, Federal Environment Agency (Germany) Thomas Schultz-Krutisch, Federal Environment Agency (Germany) Thomas Bandholtz, innoQ Deutschland GmbH (Germany)
18:10	Reception

Day Two – 20 September

Session 4 Classification and ontology in specific subjects Chair: Ia C. McIlwaine

09:00	Ontologies and classification of chemicals: can they help each other? Andrew Buxton, Sussex University (UK)
09:30	Content analysis and classification in mathematics Wolfram Sperber, Zentralblatt MATH (Germany) Patrick D. F. Ion, American Mathematical Society (USA)

10:00

Coffee/Tea

Session 5 Categories and relations: key elements of ontologies Chair: Barbara Kwaśnik

10:30	Ontology as categorial analysis Roberto Poli, University of Trento (Italy)
11:10	Towards a relation ontology for the Semantic Web Dagobert Soergel, University at Buffalo (USA)
11:50	Relations in the notational hierarchy of the Dewey Decimal Classification Rebecca Green, OCLC (USA) Michael Panzer, OCLC (USA)

12:30

Lunch

Session 6 Modelling concepts and structures in analytico-synthetic classifications Chair: Richard Smiraglia

13:30	A faceted classification of general concepts Ingetraut Dahlberg (Germany)
14:00	Representing the structural elements of a freely faceted classification Claudio Gnoli, University of Pavia (Italy) Philippe Cousson, Lycée Camille Guérin - Poitiers (France) Tom Pullman, Aberystwyth University (UK) Gabriele Merli, University of Pavia (Italy) Rick Szostak, University of Alberta (Canada)
14:30	Facet analysis as a tool for modelling subject domains and terminologies Vanda Broughton, University College London (UK)
15:00	Analytico synthetic approach for handling knowledge diversity in media content analysis Devika P. Madalli, Indian Statistical Institute, DRTC (India) A. R. D. Prasad, Indian Statistical Institute, DRTC (India)

15:30

Coffee/Tea

Session 7 Transforming and extending classification systems Chair: Gordon Dunsire

16:00	Extending models for controlled vocabularies to classification systems: modelling DDC with FRSAD Joan S. Mitchell, OCLC (USA) Marcia Lei Zeng, Kent State University (USA) Maja Žumer, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
16:40	Transformation of a legacy UDC-based classification system: exploiting and remodelling semantic relationships Fran Alexander, BBC (UK) Andy Heather, BBC (UK)
17:10	Panel discussion
18:00	Conference close

Posters 19-20 September

Poster 1	The evolution of knowledge, and its representation in classification systems Andrea Scharnhorst, VKS-KNAW (Netherlands) Almila Akdag Salah, VKS-KNAW (Netherlands) Krzysztof Suchecki, VKS-KNAW (Netherlands) Cheng Gao, VKS-KNAW (Netherlands) Richard P. Smiraglia, University of Wisconsin (USA)
Poster 2	Visualizing universes of knowledge: designs and visual analysis of the UDC Charles van den Heuvel, Huygens Institute ING, KNAW (Netherlands) Almila Akdag Salah, VKS-KNAW (Netherlands) Knowledge Space Lab (Netherlands)