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DCMI/ASIS&T Joint Webinar:
Modeling and Publishing of Controlled Vocabularies for the UNESKOS Project
Note: To be presented in Spanish
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:: Presenter: Juan Antonio Pastor Sánchez
:: Times: 10:00am - 11:15am EDT
:: Date: Wednesday, 18 May 2016
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ABOUT THE WEBINAR:
This webinar presents the modeling and publishing process of the vocabularies for the UNESKOS project by applying Semantic Web technologies. More specifically, the vocabularies represented are the UNESCO Thesaurus and the Nomenclature for fields of Science and Technology. Both vocabularies are published as RDF datasets with a structure that allows its query and reuse according to the principles of Linked Open Data. The webinar will demonstrate the application of ISO-25964 standard to represent the UNESCO thesaurus using SKOS and the ISO-THES ontology. Technological solutions used for the project will also be discussed.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Juan Antonio Pastor Sánchez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Documentation at the University of Murcia in Spain with specializations in Library Science and Documentation. He holds a PhD from the University of Murcia. He performs research in the areas of theory and models of hypertext, automation in thesaurus management, technology models for the management of information and knowledge organization, techniques and specifications for the Semantic Web, and accessibility, usability and information architecture for the Web.
