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Programme

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Conference abstracts, papers, presentations and recordings may be found on the Proceedings page.

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Day One
08:30	Registration
10:00	Conference Opening and Welcome
10:15	Session 1 (Plenary) Chair: Vanda Broughton David Crystal Keynote Address Semantic targeting: past, present and future
11:00	Coffee/tea break. Posters Vendor demonstration: Smartlogic - Semaphore powering FAST in central government and health
11:40	Session 2A Multimedia Challenges Chair: Adrian Dale Madi Solomon Here comes everything: managing media, text, audio and electronic versioning (40 mins) Hanene Maghrebi Amos David Exploiting context awareness and annotation process to support multimedia information retrieval (20 mins) Charlie Inskip Andy MacFarlane Pauline Rafferty Organising music for movies (20 mins)	Session 2B Discovery Challenges Chair: Mark Field Shana Wagger Randi Park Denise A. D. Bedford Lessons learned in content architecture harmonization and metadata models (40 mins) Libo Eric Si Ann O'Brien Steve Probets Integration of distributed terminology resources to facilitate subject cross-browsing for library portal systems (20 mins) Zhang Yunliang Zhu Lijun Qiao Xiaodong Zhang Quan Connotation description of terms and corresponding automatic method (20 mins)
13:00	Lunch break
14:00	Session 3 (Plenary) Image Retrieval Chair: Peter Enser Ian Davis Still digital images - the hardest things to classify and find (40 mins) Chris Town Giving meaning to content through ontology based image retrieval (40 mins) Elaine Ménard Ordinary image retrieval in a multilingual context: a comparison of two indexing vocabularies (20 mins)
15:40	Coffee/tea break. Posters Vendor demonstrations: 1. Smartlogic - Semaphore powering Google search appliance at NASA ; 2. Vocabulary Management Group - The first completely taxonomy-driven government website..?
16:20	Session 4A Semantic Interoperability Chair: Alan Gilchrist Andreas Vlachidis Ceri Binding Keith May Douglas Tudhope Excavating grey literature: a case study on rich indexing of archaeological documents by the use of Natural Language Processing techniques and knowledge based resources (40 mins) Carmen Reverté Reverté Montserrat Sebastià Salat Aquatic science subject gateway project as a model of interoperability (20 mins)	Session 4B Connecting and Collaborating Chair: Madi Solomon Danny Budzak Shoebox stories - online history in East London (40 mins) Matthew Hodgson The use of linguistic semantics in content analysis – the path to codification of medical prescription restrictions in the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) (30 mins)
17:30	Close of speaker sessions, Day One
18:00	Reception

Day Two
08:30	Registration
09:00	Introductions
09:15	Session 5 (Plenary) Chair: Stella Dextre Clarke Clifford Lynch Keynote Address e-Research and new challenges in knowledge structuring (45 mins) Tom Scott Michael Smethurst Building coherence at bbc.co.uk (40 mins)
10:40	Coffee/tea break. Posters Vendor demonstration: Vocabulary Management Group - The first completely taxonomy-driven government website..?
11:20	Session 6A User Exploitation leads to User Benefit Chair: Pauline Rafferty Brian Matthews Catherine Jones Bartlomiej Puzon Jim Moon Douglas Tudhope Koraljka Golub Marianne Lykke Nielsen An evaluation of enhancing social tagging with a knowledge organization system (40 mins) Sarinder Kaur Kashmir Singh Susan Lim Lee Hong Amir Feisal Merican Kaharuddin Dimyati Biodiversity information retrieval across networked data sets (20 mins) Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan Semantic metadata annotation: tagging Medline abstracts for enhanced information access (40 mins)	Session 6B Frameworks for Knowledge Organization Chair: Leonard Will Vanda Broughton Facet analysis as the theoretical basis of vocabulary tool construction and subject representation in real and digital environments (40 mins) Elaine Ménard Sabine Mas Inge Alberts Faceted classification for museum artefacts: a methodology to support web site development of large cultural organizations (20 mins) Christopher Milne Records management and librarianship traditions supporting information architecture for intranet/portal environments (40 mins)
13:00	Lunch break
14:00	Session 7 (Plenary) Potential of New Technologies Chair: Bob Bater Paul Miller Exploiting data in the cloud (40 mins) Chris Town Karl Harrison Large-scale grid computing for content-based image retrieval (20 mins)
15:00	Coffee/tea break, posters
15:40	Session 8 (Plenary) Mapping and Modelling Chair: Vanda Broughton Marcia Zeng Maja Žumer Mapping FRSAD model and other abstract models (20-30 mins) Felix Boteram Semantic interoperability in a comprehensive international knowledge organization system (KOS) (40 mins) Emad Khazraee Saeed Moaddeli Azade Sanjari Shadi Shakeri EIAH data model: semantic interoperability between distributed digital repositories (30 mins)
17:30	Close of Conference

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