Last week the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries hosted a regional awareness event in Lund, Sweden. The title of this event was 'Between Knowledge Organisation and the Semantic Web: Semantic Approaches in Digital Libraries' - see the event website for more information about the event and links to all the presentations.
I (Alistair Miles, CCLRC) felt privileged to be a part of such a high quality event, with rich discussions following on from excellent presentations. I presented the SWAD-E Thesaurus Activity's SKOS initiative, which is attempting to lay the foundations for a community driven development of standards in the area of the semantic web and knowledge organisation systems. Specifically I made an introduction to the SKOS-Core and SKOS-Mapping RDF schemas, and to the SKOS API for a terminology web service. The full presentation can be downloaded from here.
Congratulations to Traugott, Ann-Sofie and the Netlab team for hosting such a fine event.