The Boston Chapter of SLA is featuring Brandy King, a member and past speaker at the Boston KM Forum, speaking on Knowledge Mapping and Ontologies.
When: Tuesday, November 17, 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Where: Social Law Library — John Adams Courthouse, One Pemberton Square, Suite 4100, Boston
Details: http://sla-divisions.typepad.com/slaboston/2009/10/sla-boston-program—november-17.html
Costs: SLA/SCIP/ASIST Members - $20; Non-Member - $25
Register here:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=LDLvOKtuYbnzlYBgt4EDlw_3d_3d
Questions: Please send any questions about the program to Kris Liberman at k.liberman@verizon.net — thanks!
We are pleased to post this publication notice:
Finding the Concept, Not Just the Word: A librarian’s guide to ontologies and semantics, by Brandy King and Kathy Reinold. Oxford, UK: Chandos Publishing, 09/2008, 202p. 1843343193
“Aimed at students and professionals within Library and Information Services (LIS), this book is about the power and potential of ontologies to enhance the electronic search process. The book will compare search strategies and results in the current search environment and demonstrate how these could be transformed using ontologies and concept searching. Simple descriptions, visual representations, and examples of ontologies will bring a full understanding of how these concept maps are constructed to enhance retrieval through natural language queries. Readers will gain a sense of how ontologies are currently being used and how they could be applied in the future, encouraging them to think about how their own work and their users’ search experiences could be enhanced by the creation of a customized ontology.”
Both Brandy and Kathy have been speakers at Boston KM Forum events and we congratulate them on the book publication.
Friday, February 6, 2009 at 7:30 - 9:30 a.m. at Reservoir Place, Trapelo Road, Waltham. [Check meeting notice each month for exact meeting room location in the building. Continue to purchase your breakfast items at Rebecca's Cafe.]
We have had a number of programs devoted to various aspects of categorization, tagging, taxonomies, ontologies and faceted search. This mini-exercise will take the breakfast group through a process for using an existing Tag Cloud of about 80 terms to build a taxonomy and an ontology. The exercise will clarify the decision process that is essential to making sense of a “pile of related but disparate topics.” Finally, we will clear up how various search technologies “ingest” various terminology models for application.
Tag List for Starting a Taxonomy>>>>>>>Search Log for Maintaining Taxonomy and Building an Ontology
Registration Form for Friday Only
Registration Details (Cost, logistics, etc.)
VoCamp: Availability of vocabularies for describing data is a serious SW bottleneck - why not host a “VoCamp” and help grow the ecosystem of ontologies/vocabularies on the Web? To answer that need W3C, DERI International, and Talis are proposing a series of workshops. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2008Jul/0395.html
Beginning in September, 2008 in Oxford, England, here is the description:
http://vocamp.org/wiki/WhatIsVoCamp#What_is_needed_to_run_a_VoCamp.3F
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