EuroVoc 2010 Luxembourg

EuroVoc 2010 Luxembourg
Ville :	Luxembourg (ville)
Pays :	Luxembourg

Mind the lexical gap

Ouverture

18/11/2010

• Ouverture de la conférence et bienvenue (Martine Reicherts, General Director of the Publications Office).
• Conférence d'introduction (Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute).

Sur l'évolution de l'information juridique à l'heure du Semantic Web et des ontologies

Session 1: What news from EuroVoc and the Publications Office?

• EuroVoc, a path to the semantic web (Christine Laaboudi-Spoiden, Publications Office)
• Improve access to EU content through thesaurus matching (Jerôme Euzenat - INRIA LIG, Laurent Begin - Mondeca)
• Common access to EU information - the CELLAR project (Peter Schmitz, Publications Office)

Session 2: Thesauri "Speed Dating" workshop

14:00 - 16:30 Open discussion in working groups.

Date 1:

European Training Thesaurus (Marc Willem, Cedefop, Thessalonique) TESE (Thesaurus for Education Systems in Europe) (Wim Vansteenkiste, Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency, Brussels)

Date 2:

Unesco Thesaurus (Meron Ewketu, Unesco, Paris)

Date 3:

Gemet - General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus (Stefan Jensen, European Environment Agency, Copenhagen) Agrovoc – Food and Agriculture Organisation Thesaurus (Johannes Keizer, Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome) Inspire Feature Concept Dictionary (Cristiano Fugazza, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra)

Date 4:

ESCO - European Taxonomy of Skills, Competencies and Occupations (Henric Stjernkvist, European Commission, DG Employment, Brussels)

Date 5:

European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies (Axel Huckstorf, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin)

Date 6:

UNBIS - the United Nations Thesaurus (Alexandra McLeod, Dag Hammarskjöld Library, United Nations, New York) 16:30 -16:50 Coffee break 16:50 - 17:15 Workshop conclusion about "The ideal thesaurus". 17:15 - 17:45 ISO 25964 - the new standard for thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies (Stella Dextre Clarke, Consultant and project leader of the ISO 25964 Working Group)

Day 2 - 19/11/2010 (Sessions 3 and 4 are parallel sessions)

Session 3: Toward the semantic web – Metadata and Interoperability 09:00 - 09:30 Developing and using multilingual subject headings linked data: a TEL multilingual subject access initiative (Patrice Landry, Swiss National Library) 09:30 - 10:00 Multilingual access to online content - the Europeana experience (Vivien Petras, Humboldt-University Berlin) 10:00 - 10:30 The Vocabulary Mapping Framework and its potential for improving metadata interoperability in the Semantic Web (Gordon Dunsire, Centre for Digital Library Research - University of Strathclyde, UK) 10:30 - 10:40 Q&A from the audience 10:40 - 10:55 Coffee break 11:00 - 11:30 Archaeology and Terminology (Ceri Binding, Hypermedia Research Unit, Faculty of Advanced Technology, University of Glamorgan UK) 11:30 - 11:40 Q&A from the audience

Session 4: Indexing legal information

09:00 - 09:30 Automatic EuroVoc indexing of parliamentary texts in all official EU languages (Ralf Steinberger, EC Joint Research Centre, Ispra) 09:30 - 10:00 Automatic EuroVoc indexing of Parliamentary documentation - Live demonstration (Victoria Fernández Mera Congreso de los Diputados, Spain) 10:00 - 10:30 Eurovoc and parliamentary documents: a semi-automatic classification experience at the italian Camera dei deputati" (Calogero Salamone, Biblioteca Camera dei Deputati, Roma, Italy) 10:30 - 10:40 Q&A from the audience 10:40 - 10:55 Coffee break 11:00 - 11:30 Automatic Indexing with the EUROVOC Thesaurus Enabling Cross-lingual Search (Frane Šarić, University of Zagreb & Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) 11:30 - 11:40 Q&A from the audience

Closing session 11:50 - 12:20 Vocabulaire juridique multilingue comparé (Caroline Reichling, Court of Justice of the European Union) 12:20 - 12:45 Closing address by Ms Reicherts, General Director of the Publications Office.