ANNOUNCEMENT:Topic Maps 2008 Conference

Hi all... I was asked to post this for a colleague (Steve
Pepper, see
below) not on this listserv. It promises to be a
groundbreaking
conference. Please forward this on to whatever individuals
or groups
might be interested. 

 

Thanks, 

Suellen Stringer-Hye

Web Development Coordinator

Vanderbilt Libraries 

 

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Come to Topic Maps 2008!

 

Librarians may not be able to stop the ice caps from melting
but we can
certainly help prevent the world from drowning in
information - provided
we stay abreast of new developments in technology.

 

One technology that we should be tracking carefully is Topic
Maps, an
ISO standard based on bibliographic principles like
collocation and
subject-centric organization of knowledge.

 

An excellent way to find out more about what is going on in
Topic Maps -
and how it relates to library science - is Topic Maps 2008,
a conference
that takes place in  Oslo, Norway, one of the strongholds of
the Topic
Maps community, on April 2-4 2008.

 

The conference has "Towards the Vision of
Subject-centric computing" as
its theme and it consists of a day of tutorials followed by
two days of
presentations, most of them case studies showing how Topic
Maps is being
applied around the world, in eGovernment, Knowledge
Management,
technical documentation and - yes - libraries. This year the
conference
is targeting librarians, library scientists and information
architects
in particular, and there are plans for in-depth discussions
of topics
such as the relationship between Topic Maps and Dublin Core,
thesauri
and FRBR, and the role of Topic Maps in digital libraries.

 

There are some great keynote speakers lined up, including
David
Weinberger, author of "Everything is
miscellaneous", Alex Wright, author
of "Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages",
and Steve Pepper,
author of "The TAO of Topic Maps".

 

For more information, see www.topicmaps.com/tm2008.
Registration is open
now. I encourage you to mark your calendars and start
looking for
funding. This conference should not be missed!

 

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