Tutorial 7B: Thesauri and ontologies in digital libraries Part II.
Design, evaluation, and development
Half day
This tutorial will introduce criteria for the design and evaluation of
thesauri and ontologies and then deal with methods and tools for their
development: Locating sources; collecting concepts, terms. and
relationships to reuse existing knowledge; developing and refining
thesaurus/ontology structure; software, database structure and Web
standards; collaborative development; developing crosswalks / mappings
between thesauri/ontologies. In summing up, the tutorial will address
the question of the resources needed to develop and maintain a
thesaurus or ontology. See also morning tutorial Thesauri and
ontologies in digital libraries Part I. Structure and use in
knowledge-based assistance to users.
Target Audience:
This tutorial is intended for people who have a basic familiarity with
the function and structure of thesauri and ontologies (such as
acquired in Part 1).
Level of experience required:
Introductory
Presenter:
Dagobert Soergel holds an MS equivalent in mathematics and physics
(1964) and a PhD in political science (1970), both from the University
of Freiburg, Germany. He is Professor of Information Studies,
University of Maryland, where he teaches courses in information
retrieval, thesaurus development, expert systems, and information
technology, and an information systems consultant. He has been a
visiting professor at the universities of Western Ontario, Chicago,
and Konstanz, Germany. Among other books, he has authored Organizing
Information (1985), which received the American Society of Information
Science Best Book Award, Indexing Languages and Thesauri. Construction
and Maintenance (1974) and numerous papers. He has designed several
thesauri, most recently the Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus
http://etoh.niaaa.nih.gov/AODVol1/Aodthome.htm (for which he chaired
the advisory committee) and the Harvard Business Thesaurus (under
development). He is developing TermMaster, a thesaurus management
software package. In 1997 he received the American Society of
Information Science Award of Merit.
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