ISKO UK Conference 2009
Content Architecture - Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources

University College London, 22–23 June

In our networked world, enabling easy access to multiple services and resources is often reliant on a team effort involving specialists from website design, knowledge engineering, audio and video engineering, linguistics, computer science, etc. This Conference aims to bring together people from all the diverse specialisms that contribute to integrated information systems and services. This first biennial Conference of the British Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization is organized in cooperation with the Department of Information Studies, University College London. Among the highlights are keynote addresses from Clifford Lynch, Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, and Professor David Crystal, the renowned author, linguist and broadcaster.

Session 1: Keynote

Semantic targeting: past, present and future.
David Crystal
Recording

Session 2A: Multimedia challenges

Here comes everything: managing media, text, audio, and electronic versioning.
Madi Solomon
Slides | Recording

Exploiting context awareness and annotation process to support multimedia information retrieval.
Hanene Maghrebi, Amos David
Paper | Slides

Organising music for movies.
Charles Inskip, Andy MacFarlane, Pauline Rafferty
Paper | Slides | Recording

Session 2B: Discovering challenges

Lessons learned in content architecture harmonization and metadata models.
Shana Wagger, Randi Park, Denise Bedford
Paper | Slides

Integration of distributed terminology resources to facilitate subject cross-browsing for library portal systems.
Libo Eric Si, Ann O’Brien, Steve Probets

Connotation description of terms and corresponding automatic method.
Zhang Yunliang, Zhu Lijun, Qiao Xiaodong, Zhang Quan
Paper

Session 3: Image Retrieval

Still digital images - the hardest things to classify and find.
Ian Davis

Giving meaning to content through ontology based image retrieval.
Chris Town

Ordinary image retrieval in a multilingual context: a comparison of two indexing vocabularies.
Elaine Ménard

Session 4A: Semantic interoperability

Excavating grey literature: a case study on rich indexing of archaeological documents by the use of natural language processing techniques and knowledge based sources.
Andreas Vlachidis, Ceri Binding, Keith May, Douglas Tudhope
Paper | Slides

Aquatic science s ubject gateway project as a model of interoperability.
Carmen Reverté Reverté, Montserrat Sebastià Salat
Paper | Slides

Session 4B: Connecting and Collaborating

Adventures in tagging – local history in East London.
Danny Budzak
Paper | Slides | Recording

The use of linguistic semantics in content analysis – the path to codification of medical prescription restrictions in the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).
Matthew Hodgson
Slides

Session 5

e-Research and new challenges in knowledge structuring.
Clifford Lynch
Recording

Building coherence at bbc.co.uk.
Tom Scott and Michael Smethurst
Recording

Session 6A: User exploitation leads to user benefit

An evaluation of enhancing social tagging with a knowledge organization system.
Brian Matthews, Catherine Jones, Bartłomiej Puzoń, Jim Moon, Douglas Tudhope, Koraljka Golub, Marianne Lykke Nielsen
Paper | Slides

Biodiversity information retrieval across networked data sets.
Sarinder Kaur Kashmir Singh, Kaharuddin Dimyati, Susan Lim Lee Hong, Amir Feisal Merican
Paper | Slides | Recording

Semantic metadata annotation: tagging Medline abstracts for enhanced information access.
Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan
Paper | Slides | Recording

Session 6B: Frameworks for KO

Facet analysis as the theoretical basis of vocabulary tool construction and subject representation in real and digital environments.
Vanda Broughton
Slides

Faceted classification for museum artefacts: a methodology to support web site development of large cultural organisations.
Elaine Ménard, Sabine Mas, Inge Alberts
Paper | Slides

Records management and librarianship traditions supporting information architecture for intranet/ portal environments.
Christopher Milne
Paper | Slides

Session 7: Potential of new technologies

Exploiting data in the cloud
Paul Miller
Recording

Large-scale grid computing for content-based image retrieval
Chris Town and Karl Harrison
Paper | Slides | Recording

Session 8: Mapping and Modelling

Mapping FRSAD model and other abstract models.
Marcia Zeng, Maja Žumer
Paper | Slides | Recording

Semantic interoperability in a comprehensive international organization system (KOS).
Felix Boteram
Paper | Slides | Recording

EIAH data model: semantic interoperability between distributed digital repositories.
Emad Khazraee, Azade Sanjari, Shadi Shakeri, Saeed Moaddeli
Paper | Slides | Recording

Posters

An integrated semantic model based on metadata and folksonomy.
Mei-Xue Wang
Poster

Application of a bilingual faceted terminological system for specialized information retrieval.
Alicia F. Gomez
Poster

The paths from metadata to value - information we store with content can be used by the system to provide tools to support user navigation and to surface more relevant and intuitive content.
Helen Lippell, Peter Jordan
Poster

Trying to please everybody – Taxonomies, Politics, and Objectivity.
Fran Alexander
Poster | Paper

ISKO UK Conference 2009 Content Architecture - Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources