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PATRICK HAYES is Senior Research Scientist at Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC). He has been a professor of computer science at the University of Essex and philosophy at the University of Illinois, and the Luce Professor of cognitive science at the University of Rochester. He has been a visiting scholar at Université de Genève and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Studies at Stanford, and has directed applied AI research at Xerox-PARC, SRI and Schlumberger, Inc. At various times, Pat has been secretary of AISB, chairman and trustee of IJCAI, associate editor of Artificial Intelligence, a governor of the Cognitive Science Society and president of AAAI. Pat’s research interests include knowledge representation and automatic reasoning, especially the representation of space and time; the Semantic Web; ontology design; image description and the philosophical foundations of AI and computer science. During the past decade Pat has been active in the Semantic Web initiative, largely as an invited member of the W3C Working Groups responsible for the RDF, OWL and SPARQL standards. Pat is a member of the Web Science Trust and of OASIS, where he works on the development of ontology standards. Personal website.
Talk title: On being the same: keynote address
Speakers
DAN BRICKLEY is best known for his work on Web standards in the W3C community, where he helped create the Semantic Web project and many of its defining technologies. Dan is currently working at the Vrije University Amsterdam on the NoTube EU project, developing new approaches to interactive TV that build upon SKOS, FOAF and open Web technologies. Previous work included six years on the W3C technical staff, establishing ILRT’s Semantic Web group at the University of Bristol, and more recently at Joost, an Internet TV start-up. He has been involved with resource discovery metadata since 1994 when he published the first HTML Philosophy guide on the Web, and has been exploring distributed, collaborative approaches to “finding stuff” ever since. Personal blog.
Talk title: Classification, collaboration and the Web of data [day 01 | session 01]
GUUS SCHREIBER is a professor of Intelligent Information Systems at the Department of Computer Science department of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research interests are mainly in knowledge and ontology engineering, with a special interest for applications in the field of cultural heritage. He was one of the key developers of the CommonKADS methodology. He acts as chair of W3C groups for Semantic Web standards such as OWL, SKOS and RDFa. His research group is involved a wide range of national and international research projects. He is now project coordinator of the EU Integrated Project NoTube concerned with integration of Web and TV data with the help of semantics and was previously Scientific Director of the EU Network of Excellence “Knowledge Web”. Personal website.
Talk title: Issues in publishing and aligning Web vocabularies [day 01 | session 01]
THOMAS BAKER is Chief Information Officer of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), chairs the Library Linked Data Incubator Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and recently chaired W3C’s Semantic Web Deployment Working Group — roles in which he has been instrumental in standardizing two major linked data vocabularies, Dublin Core and SimpleKnowledge Organization System (SKOS). Tom holds an MLS from Rutgers University and an MA and PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University. He has worked as a researcher at an economic institute in Italy, at the German National Research Center for Information Technology (later Fraunhofer), and at the Goettingen State Library, and has consulted with organizations such as the Max Planck Digital Library and the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).
Talk title: The concepts of knowledge organization systems as hubs in the Web of data [day 01 | session 01]
BARBARA H. KWAŚNIK is a Professor at the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University. An expert in classification research, she teaches in the areas of organization of information, theory of classification, and information science. Kwaśnik draws on the disciplines of anthropology, sociology of science, and cognitive psychology, as well as studies of human-computer interaction. She is especially interested in how classifications are translated from one culture or application to another with the goal of helping support increasingly diverse and global contexts. Other areas of research include the study of how identifying genres of documents can help in various information-related tasks. She was named the 2009 University Scholar/Teacher of the Year at Syracuse University. Personal website.
Talk title: Approaches to providing context in knowledge representation structures [day 01 | session 02]
RICHARD P. SMIRAGLIA is Professor, Information Organization Research Group, School of Information Studies, at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He has defined the meaning of “a work” empirically, and has revealed the ubiquitous phenomenon of instantiation among information objects. Recent work includes empirical analysis of social classification, and epistemological analysis of the role of authorship in bibliographic tradition. His “Idea Collider” research team is working on a unified theory of knowledge. An Honorary Fellow of the Virtual Knowledge Studio, Amsterdam, he is a collaborating member of the Knowledge Space Lab effort to map the evolution of knowledge in Wikipedia. He holds a PhD (1992) from the University of Chicago. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Knowledge Organization.
Talk title: Interactions between elementary structures in universes of knowledge [day 01 | session 02]
Poster title: The evolution of knowledge, and its representation in classification systems
CHARLES VAN DEN HEUVEL is Head Research of History of Science at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences where he is involved in various research projects on annotation and visualization in the history of science and on concept extraction from 17th century correspondences of Dutch scholars. Furthermore, he makes part of the e-humanities research group of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He studied Art History at Groningen University, The Netherlands (PhD 1991). He publishes regularly on history of architecture, fortification and town planning, history of cartography, history of science and history of information science. Themes of interests in the latter discipline are the history of classification, history of the WWW and the history of visualizations of knowledge. Currently, he is writing a book entitled “Imagining Interfaces to Universal Knowledge. The visualizations of Paul Otlet”.
Talk title: Interactions between elementary structures in universes of knowledge [day 01 | session 02]
Poster title: Visualizing universes of knowledge: designs and visual analysis of the UDC
THOMAS M. DOUSA is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His primary interests are the history and philosophy of knowledge organization within the domain of Library and Information Science (LIS). To date, his work has focused on analysis of theories of classification and indexing from the first generation of modern library and documentation movements, including analyses of the works of Cutter, Otlet, Richardson, and Kaiser: the latter’s theory of “systematic indexing” is the focus of his ongoing dissertation project.
Talk title: Interactions between elementary structures in universes of knowledge [day 01 | session 02]
EMAD KHAZRAEE is a doctoral student at the iSchool@Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. His research interests are the application of Information Science and Technology in cultural heritage, especially knowledge representation and ontology design for cultural objects, knowledge management, digital preservation, and digital repositories. He has a Masters Degree in Architecture from the University of Tehran and a background in architectural preservation and the history of architecture. He has been working on the application of Information Science and Technology in the history of architecture since 2006 when he joined Encyclopedia of Iranian Architectural History as the director of the IT Department.
Talk title: Demystifying ontology [day 01 | session 02]
XIA LIN is an associate professor at the iSchool@Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. His research areas include information organization, knowledge mapping, information visualization, digital libraries, information retrieval, and visual interface design. He has published more than 60 research papers in these areas and received significant research funding for research and doctoral education. His visualization prototypes have been presented and demonstrated in many national and international conferences. Currently, he serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Information Visualization. Dr. Lin has a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Maryland at College Park and a Master of Librarianship from Emory University. Prior to joining Drexel, Dr. Lin was an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky.
Talk title: Demystifying ontology [day 01 | session 02]
DANIEL KLESS is a PhD student at the University of Melbourne working broadly on the interface between thesauri and ontologies. He is also engaged in the current development of the thesaurus standard ISO 25964, in particular the chapter about interoperability with ontologies in part 2 of that standard. Formerly, he has been working with knowledge organization systems in the area of knowledge management.
Talk title: Interoperability of knowledge organization systems with and through ontologies [day 01 | session 03]
JUTTA LINDENTHAL is a freelance information consultant working in the area of cultural heritage. She has a background in biology, language studies and semiotics. Her current work focuses on design criteria for controlled vocabularies as well as the associated human-computer interaction. She also lectures on knowledge organization at the Universities of Applied Sciences in Potsdam and Hamburg. Further, she is a member of the group working on the ISO 25964 thesaurus standard.
Talk title: Interoperability of knowledge organization systems with and through ontologies [day 01 | session 03]
SIMON MILTON received his PhD from the University of Tasmania’s Department of Information Systems in 2000 in which he reported the first comprehensive analysis of data modelling languages using a common-sense realistic ontology. Dr Milton continues his interests in the ontological foundations of data modeling languages and the implications of top-level ontological commitments in information systems modelling. His recent interest has extended to the value and use of built ontologies to business and biomedicine. He holds a senior lectureship in the Department of Information Systems at The University of Melbourne.
Talk title: Interoperability of knowledge organization systems with and through ontologies [day 01 | session 03]
EDMUND KAZMIERCZAK is a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He lectures in software engineering and his current research interests are in computational models safety critical systems, biological systems, especially the renal system, in modelling and simulation for tele-medicine and in organizing knowledge for modelling biological systems.
Talk title: Interoperability of knowledge organization systems with and through ontologies [day 01 | session 03]
VINCENZO MALTESE received his degree in Computer Science in 2000 at the University of Salerno (Italy). After five years of experience as programmer and teacher, he joined the University of Trento (Italy) for an internship in 2007. He is currently a fourth year PhD student at the local doctorate ICT School. His main research field is Knowledge Representation and Management. He participated in several projects including Interconcept (matching large scale knowledge organization systems), Live Memories (active digital memories of collective lives), Semantic Geo-Catalogue (extending geo-catalogues with semantic capabilities), and the Living Knowledge EU FET project (dealing with diversity in knowledge) as WP leader and Interdisciplinarity & Communication Manager. He is co-author of the open source tools S-Match and GeoWordNet. He is a member of several program committees including inter-alia ESWC, ODBASE, Ontology Matching Workshop, IEEE AINA and editorial journals such as IJCIS, the Journal of Zhejiang University and DKE.
Talk title: Towards the integration of knowledge organization systems with the linked data cloud [day 01 | session 03]
FEROZ FARAZI is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Trento (UNITN) in Italy. He obtained a PhD degree in Computer Science from UNITN in 2010. His research interests include Knowledge Management, Ontologies and the Semantic Web. He has authored several publications including a book entitled “Faceted Lightweight Ontologies: A Formalization and Some Experiments”. He has collaborated in the development of GeoWordNet knowledge base at UNITN from 2009 to 2010. He has also collaborated in the Semantic Geo-Catalogue project funded by the Autonomous Province of Trento. He served as an assistant professor from 2003 to 2006 in the department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of Chittagong in Bangladesh. He also served as a lecturer in the department of CSE at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh from 2001 to 2003.
Talk title: Towards the integration of knowledge organization systems with the linked data cloud [day 01 | session 03]
MARIA RÜTHER studied horticultural sciences and received her PhD on heat recovery in greenhouses from the University of Hannover. Since 1987 she has been working at the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) in the field of environmental applications. In recent years she headed several internet projects, e.g. carrying out the R&D projects German Environmental Information Network GEIN and the Semantic Network Service SNS. At present she works for the Environmental Specimen Bank and is responsible for its information system, including its public web application, and fosters the linked environment data initiative at UBA.
Talk title: Classification and reference vocabulary in linked environment data [day 01 | session 03]
JOACHIM FOCK works on technical terminology for environmental protection and its application in information systems at the Federal Environment Agency in Dessau, Germany, subunit Environmental Information Systems and Services.
Talk title: Classification and reference vocabulary in linked environment data [day 01 | session 03]
THOMAS SCHULTZ-KRUTISCH after receiving his PhD in Geology and Geophysics, worked as an information specialist in the mining industry, the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, and – since 1986 – at the Federal Environment Agency in Dessau, Germany, since 2008 at the subunit Environmental Information Systems and Services.
Talk title: Classification and reference vocabulary in linked environment data [day 01 | session 03]
THOMAS BANDHOLTZ started his career as an urban planner but switched over to informatics in the late 1980s. Working as a contractor for Environment Agencies since 1994, he was project manager on many Web applications with a semantic focus such as the German Environmental Information Network GEIN and the Semantic Network Service SNS. Since 2007 he works for innoQ Deutschland GmbH as a Principal Consultant and head of the open source development of iQvoc – a SKOS based vocabulary management tool.
Talk title: Classification and reference vocabulary in linked environment data [day 01 | session 03]
ANDREW BUXTON has a first degree in chemistry from Oxford University and a PhD in information science. He recently retired from the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University where he was Information Systems Manager. His duties there included in-house development of the library system and being national distributor for the UNESCO information retrieval package, CDS/ISIS. Previously he was a lecturer in Information Systems at University College London for eight years and his research interests included online library catalogues and the use of UDC numbers in computerised information retrieval. He also worked at the British Library on their automated information service, BLAISE. He wrote the chapter “Online applications” in the Guide to the use of UDC, 1993 and is a member of the UDC Editorial Team.
Talk title: Ontologies and classification of chemicals: can they help each other? [day 02 | session 04]
WOLFRAM SPERBER is an editor of Zentralblatt MATH, one of the leading bibliographic databases in mathematics. He studied mathematics and his PhD thesis concerned some problems of optimal control. He has been engaged in the field of electronic information and communication in the sciences since the early 1990s. He has coordinated projects and been involved in several initiatives of the mathematical community in this field. For instance, the Math-Net project was one of the first users of Dublin Core metadata scheme and the RDF approach. Now he is working at FIZ Karlsruhe in the editorial offices of the mathematical database ZBMATH. One of his tasks is coordination of the work on the Mathematical Subject Classification scheme and related topics such as controlled vocabularies and thesauri.
Talk title: Content analysis and classification in mathematics [day 02 | session 04]
PATRICK D. F. ION has been an Associate Editor of Mathematical Reviews (MR), a division of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), since 1980. MathSciNet is the database service produced by MR. Previously he was at the University of Heidelberg, RIMS Kyoto, Universiteit Groningen, and Bedford College of the University of London, following a Ph. D. from Imperial College in London; he took study leave at IHES in Bures-sur-Yvette, in Strasbourg and in Auckland. His mathematical interests started with the foundations of mathematical physics and have evolved to quantum stochastics, q-special functions, and geometry, both non-commutative and in relation to the discrete Fourier transform. He has been involved in trying to understand mathematical knowledge management in several aspects for over 30 years. As co-chair of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Math Working Group for 10 years, he is editor and co-author of several W3C Recommendations including MathML. He represented the AMS for the recent revision of the Mathematics Subject Classification to MSC2010.
Talk title: Content analysis and classification in mathematics [day 02 | session 04]
ROBERTO POLI (B.A. in Sociology with honours; PhD Utrecht) teaches Philosophy, Applied Ethics and Futures studies at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento. Poli is editor-in-chief of Axiomathes (Springer), a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the study of ontology and cognitive systems, a member of the editorial advisory board of Cognitive Semiotics and of the editorial board of Meinong Studies, editor of Categories (Ontos Verlag), and a member of the editorial boards of Process Thought (Ontos Verlag). Poli is President of the Nicolai Hartmann Society. His research interests include (1) ontology, in both its traditional philosophical understanding and the new, computer-oriented, understanding; (2) the theory of values and the concept of the person; and (3) anticipatory systems, i.e. systems able to take decisions according to their possible future development. Poli has published six books, edited or co-edited more than 20 books or journal’s special issues and published more than 150 scientific papers. Personal website.
Talk title: Ontology as categorial analysis [day 02 | session 05]
DAGOBERT SOERGEL is a Professor and Chair, Department of Library and Information Studies, Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo and an Information Technology and Services Consultant since 1970. He has been working in the area of IR, specifically classification (taxonomy, ontologies) and thesauri, for almost 50 years. He is the author of four books, including the still classic Indexing Languages and Thesauri (1974) and Organizing Information (1985, ASIS Best Book Award) and over 100 papers in the field of indexing and information retrieval and has supervised 25 dissertations in information studies. Prof. Soergel is the recipient of the Award of Merit for 1997, the highest award of the American Society for Information Science and of the CISTA award 2008/2009. Personal website.
Talk title: Towards a relation ontology for the Semantic Web [day 02 | session 05]
REBECCA GREEN is an assistant editor of the DDC, with specific responsibilities related to the machine-assisted derivation of the abridged edition of the DDC, development of DDC training modules and investigation of relationships in the DDC (with a long-term goal of developing a version of the system to support automated applications). Rebecca came to OCLC from her position as associate professor in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. While there, Rebecca and like-minded colleagues were responsible for bringing forth two edited volumes on relationships, Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge and The Semantics of Relationships: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Rebecca serves on the editorial board of Knowledge Organization.
Talk title: Relations in the notational hierarchy of the Dewey Decimal Classification [day 02 | session 05]
MICHAEL PANZER is an assistant editor of the DDC and serves as a technical advisor for Dewey research projects and web services. Along with colleagues in the OCLC Office of Research, Michael has been heavily involved in representations of the DDC for Semantic Web applications, including presenting Dewey summaries and abridged Dewey as linked data; he’s a member of the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group and a DCMI liaison to the W3C Provenance Incubator Group. Prior to moving into the DDC assistant editor role, Michael served as global product manager of taxonomy services at OCLC. Before that, Michael worked at Cologne University of Applied Sciences, where he was team leader of CrissCross, a research project funded by the German Research Foundation focused on mapping SWD, DDC, RAMEAU and LCSH. From 2002 to 2005 Michael headed the technical team that translated Dewey into German.
Talk title: Relations in the notational hierarchy of the Dewey Decimal Classification [day 02 | session 05]
INGETRAUT DAHLBERG started work on thesauri and classification in the early sixties. She developed her concept theory in 1972 together with her work on the establishment of a universal classification system of knowledge fields, the Information Coding Classification (ICC), presented 1977 in India and published in 1982. In 1974 she founded the journal International Classification, now known as Knowledge Organization, and was its editor for 23 years. She also founded the German Society for Classification in 1977 and chaired it until 1986. In 1989 the International Society for Knowledge Organization was founded with her as president until 1996. In 1980 she founded the INDEKS Verlag, which was taken over by Ergon Verlag in 1997. She authored more than 400 research papers, proposals and reports.
Talk title: A faceted classification of general concepts [day 02 | session 06]
CLAUDIO GNOLI has been working as an academic librarian since 1994. His main interest is classification theory. He has published papers on this subject in several international journals and conference proceedings. He is a member of the scientific advisory boards of the Universal Decimal Classification Consortium (UDCC) and of the journal Knowledge Organization, and vice-president of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO).
Talk title: Representing the structural elements of a freely faceted classification [day 02 | session 06]
PHILIPPE COUSSON is the librarian in Lycee Camille Guerin, Poitiers. Besides librarianship (document analysis, thesauri and classification), he has two main interests: theology and linguistics. For more than 20 years, he has been working in a collaborative indexation of periodicals of educational interest (Memofiches); he is a member of the consulting committee for the maintenance and evolution of the Motbis education thesaurus, and of the team of translators for the UDC summary into Esperanto. During the last three years he has led continuing education sessions for school librarians.
Talk title: Representing the structural elements of a freely faceted classification [day 02 | session 06]
TOM PULLMAN is studying for a Master's degree in Information and Library Studies at Aberystwyth University. He has worked in the past at Cambridge University Library and currently works as an analyst in Cambridge University's Research Office. His main interest is in classification and its relevance not just to information retrieval but to visualization and conceptualization of collections of documents and other knowledge-related entities. He is particularly interested in the implications of adopting phenomenon-based rather than disciplinary classifications in a variety of areas, such as in the classification of university research output and in libraries in educational settings. He is also interested in the development of flexible and efficient database structures for the representation both of classification schemes themselves and of classifications assigned in those schemes.
Talk title: Representing the structural elements of a freely faceted classification [day 02 | session 06]
GABRIELE MERLI is a computer scientist at the Mathematics Department of the University of Pavia (Italy). He is specialized in Unix-Linux operative systems, and network and server management.
Talk title: Representing the structural elements of a freely faceted classification [day 02 | session 06]
RICK SZOSTAK is Professor of Economics at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is the author of nine books and thirty articles, all interdisciplinary in nature. His present research focuses on how classification systems could better serve (especially) interdisciplinary researchers. He has published articles in Knowledge Organization and the Journal of Documentation, and a brief comment in JASIST (as well as in four conference proceedings in information science), as well as the book "Classifying Science: Phenomena, Data, Theory, Method, Practice". He is President-Elect of the Association for Integrative Studies.
Talk title: Representing the structural elements of a freely faceted classification [day 02 | session 06]
VANDA BROUGHTON is Senior Lecturer at University College London, and Director of the MA in Library & Information Studies. Her professional life has been mainly concerned with the construction and design of classification systems, notably the Bliss Bibliographic Classification, and more recently the Universal Decimal Classification. In addition to her editorial work on these two classifications, she was a member of the UK Classification Research Group, has served on the IFLA Committee for Classification and Indexing, and is currently Chair of the UK Chapter of ISKO. She is the author of a number of books and journal articles on classification.
Talk title: Facet analysis as a tool for modelling subject domains and terminologies [day 02 | session 06]
DEVIKA P. MADALLI is Associate Professor at the Documentation Research and Training Centre. She holds a PhD in knowledge representation techniques for faceted classificatory systems. Her interest is in the area of knowledge organization and application of facet analysis in information systems, digital libraries, Semantic Web technologies, ontologies, content management systems, and e-learning. She has published more than 60 papers in national and international seminars, conferences and journals.
Talk title: Analytico synthetic approach for handling knowledge diversity in media content analysis [day 02 | session 06]
ARETI RAMACHANDRA DURGA PRASAD is Professor at the Documentation Research and Training Centre of the Indian Statistical Institute. He has worked in an advisory capacity on several important committees including the National Knowledge Commission (India) working group on libraries, DSpace Federation Governance Advisory Board, National e-Governance committee on data and metadata standards. His main interests are in IT applications for information systems in general, and his current research interests cover Semantic Web technologies, ontologies development and deployment, digital library research, and multi-lingual retrieval. Dr Prasad has published more than 100 papers in national and international seminars, conferences and journals.
Talk title: Analytico synthetic approach for handling knowledge diversity in media content analysis [day 02 | session 06]
JOAN S. MITCHELL is editor in chief of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system at OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Prior to joining OCLC in 1993, Joan was director of educational technology at Carnegie Mellon University and an adjunct professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Joan has written and spoken extensively in the area of knowledge organization, and has a special interest in localization and interoperability in classification systems. In 2005, the American Library Association awarded Joan the Melvil Dewey Medal, which recognizes distinguished service to the profession of librarianship. She serves on the editorial board of Knowledge Organization, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO).
Talk title: Extending models for controlled vocabularies to classification systems: modelling DDC with FRSAD [day 02 | session 07]
MARCIA LEI ZENG is a professor at Kent State University. She has been involved in the development and research of knowledge organization systems for over 20 years and has been contributing to related standards including NISO Z39.19 and ISO 25964 for controlled vocabularies. She is also the chair of IFLA Working Group that develops the model of Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD) and an Invited Expert on the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group. She is a member of the Executive Board of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) and Director-at-large of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T).
Talk title: Extending models for controlled vocabularies to classification systems: modelling DDC with FRSAD [day 02 | session 07]
MAJA ŽUMER is Professor of Information Science at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). Her research interests include design and evaluation of information retrieval systems, end-user interfaces, and conceptual modelling. She has been involved in several IFLA working groups, NISO committees, and several EU projects. She has received several international and national research grants. She is a member of the IFLA FRBR Review Group and co-chair of IFLA Working Group on the Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR).
Talk title: Extending models for controlled vocabularies to classification systems: modelling DDC with FRSAD [day 02 | session 07]
FRAN ALEXANDER is Taxonomy Manager, BBC Information and Archives. She previously worked as an information architect and editor of dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopaedias, and almanacs, managing numerous print-to-online conversion projects. She joined political reference publisher Keesing's Worldwide in 2001, where she managed the creation of a fully digitised online news archive, with a new indexing and tagging system. In 2009 she was awarded a Master of Research degree by University College London, her dissertation proposing a framework for assessing the subjectivity and objectivity of taxonomies, based on original research into 15 major commercial and academic taxonomy and classification projects.
Talk title: Transformation of a legacy UDC-based classification system: exploiting and remodelling semantic relationships [day 02 | session 07]
ANDY HEATHER, Chief Technical Officer of Dods, the political information publisher, was from 2009-2011 the BBC’s Principal Programme Architect for the Digital Media Initiative (DMI) project, specialising in enterprise search and metadata management. Having studied Physics at Imperial College, London, he subsequently pursued a career in systems architecture, software development and engineering. He founded Picdar and led the teams that built world-leading, enterprise-scale digital asset management and media workflow solutions for major UK print and online publishers and large corporations. He was Vice President of Worldwide Publishing for Nstein (2008-09), where he directed content management, text analytics and semantic search projects.
Talk title: Transformation of a legacy UDC-based classification system: exploiting and remodelling semantic relationships [day 02 | session 07]
Poster presenters
ALMILA AKDAG SALAH holds a BSc in industrial design, an MA in art history from Istanbul Technical University and a PhD from the Art History Department of UCLA. Her research interests are in the area of technoscience art and its place in the art historical canon; citation networks and mapping of the three semi-related discipline’s (cognitive science, visual culture and art history) and their interactions. She was a Postdoctoral researcher with the Virtual Knowledge Space (VKS-KNAW) – Knowledge Space Lab project, which contributed to the new research area of “maps of science”. This project developed an innovative research line addressing the difference between representing scholarly knowledge in (external) classifications systems (such as thesauri, ontologies, bibliographic systems) and “internal” representations based on data and user-tagging (such as network analysis, user annotations/tagging, folksonomies). Currently she is working on a three year project “DeviantArt: Mapping the Alternative Art World” funded by the grant received from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.
Poster title: The evolution of knowledge, and its representation in classification systems
Poster title: Visualizing universes of knowledge: designs and visual analysis of the UDC
CHENG GAO holds a BSc and MSc in computer science from Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU). She has previously worked on developing a multi-agent ambient system based on JADE (Java Agent Development Framework) (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); and analysis of the routing performance of the SIP signal and completed the SIP information simulation in OPNET12.0 (NTT, Tokyo, Japan). She also participated in the research project sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China in Network Information Center (BUPT, Beijing, China) on a novel network model to guarantee the QoS over heterogeneous network using Flow Label and simulated the proposed model in OPNET. She joined Virtual Knowledge Studio as a Scientific Programmer in the VKS project Knowledge Space Lab in 2009.
Poster title: The evolution of knowledge, and its representation in classification systems
KRZYSZTOF SUCHEKI holds a BSc, MSc and PhD in physics from Warsaw University of Technology. His areas of study are complex networks and dynamics in such systems, and was a Postdoctoral researcher at the VKS from March 2008. He first worked at the EU funded project CREEN – Critical events in evolving networks, and then joined the Knowledge Space Lab project. He is currently a Postdoctoral researcher at the Erasmusstudio, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Poster title: The evolution of knowledge, and its representation in classification systems
ANDREA SCHARNHORST is a Senior Researcher at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam (Data Archiving and Network Services Institute and the e-humanities group). Her work focuses on modelling and simulating the emergence of innovations (new modes of behaviour and learning, forms of communication, technologies or scientific ideas) in social systems. She also worked on the transfer of concepts and methods at the interface between physics, information sciences, social sciences and humanities and developed a specific framework (Geometrically Oriented Evolutionary THEories) to describe processes of problem solving and learning as an evolutionary search process in unknown knowledge landscapes. She coordinated and participated in several EU and national-funded projects related to innovation in research and research networks. At the Virtual Knowledge Studio, she led the Knowledge Space Lab project (Strategiefonds KNAW).
Poster title: The evolution of knowledge, and its representation in classification systems
RICARDO EITO-BRUN is an associate professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, where he teaches different subjects related to digital publishing, knowledge organization and representation, classification and information management. Ricardo holds a master degree in Documentation and Information Science from University of Granada (Spain) and a doctoral degree from University of Zaragoza (Spain) on the application of distributed collaboration environments and Semantic Web techniques for the description and classification of archival materials. His research interest is in information management practices and he has been responsible for several large scale content management and web-based publishing projects for companies and public institutions in European countries. He is the author of four books on mark-up languages and XML, and numerous articles and conference papers in the field of information management.
ALFREDO CALOSCI holds a degree in architecture from Politecnico di Milano (1998) where he completed its “tesi di laurea”: “The Digital Museum in Spain: A Web Design Proposal for the “Museo Municipal de Madrid” (Madrid City Museum). He currently teaches Web Design and Digital Imaging courses at the “Instituto Arquitectura - Fundación COAM” (the Madrid Architect’s Association Foundation). From 2000-2006 he was an associate professor in the Graphic Expression Department at the Escuela Superior de Arte y Arquitectura – Universidad Europea de Madrid (UEM). Alfredo’s recent works include web design for L35 – Arquitectos, Arca de CAD digital Archive, and the signposting of the Archivo Histórico Nacional – Sección Nobleza – Hospital de Tavera – Toledo and was also invited to the “Design e Ambiente” summer school organized by the Alghero’s School of Architecture in 2007.
