Workshops

NKOS: Networked Knowledge Organisation Systems and Services

Short description

The NKOS workshop aims to explore the potential of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS), such as classification systems, taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies, and lexical databases, in the context of current developments and possibilities. These tools help to model the underlying semantic structure of a domain for purposes of information retrieval, knowledge discovery, language engineering, and the Semantic Web. The workshop will provide an opportunity to discuss projects, research and development activities, evaluation approaches, lessons learned, and research findings. A further objective is to systematically engage in discussions in common areas of interest with selected related communities and to investigate potential cooperation. The workshop will also allow major projects to report results, newcomers to interact with established people in the field, while facilitating the discussions of topical issues which require consensus or coordination, including standards efforts. Thus, for example, previous workshops have seen focused discussion on KOS in AI & AI in KOS, early drafts of BSI and ISO KOS standards, the W3C SKOS standard, the interface between traditional library and information science vocabularies and Semantic Web efforts, KOS linked data, social tagging and its relation to established vocabularies, KOS metadata and the different types of KOS, use of KOS in artificial intelligence. The TPDL venue affords participation by KOS researchers and developers from different perspectives (reflecting the different conference threads), such as KOS design and construction, API and service developers, user-oriented issues, management of KOS in registries.
Website: https://nkos.dublincore.org/2025NKOSworkshop/NKOS2025CFP.html

Organizers

  • Koraljka Golub
  • Claudio Gnoli
  • Douglas Tudhope
  • Joseph A Busch
  • Marcia L. Zeng

EcoDL 2025: The 1st Workshop on Digital Libraries and AI-based Information Systems for Ecological Research and Practice

Short description

EcoDL 2025 explores the integration of AI, digital libraries, and FAIR data principles in ecological research to improve knowledge synthesis and predictive modeling. Ecology's complexity and the fragmentation of multi-scale data across diverse sources present challenges in generalization, requiring advanced computational tools for structured knowledge representation, search, and decision support. Recognizing the essential role of digital libraries in research infrastructure, we seek to explore AI-driven systems and FAIR data principles for enhancing ecological methodologies. This workshop invites researchers from ecology, AI, and digital information systems to discuss innovations in data synthesis, semantic search, causal inference, and machine learning applications in biodiversity and conservation. While interdisciplinary contributions from climate science, ecosystem restoration, and geography are welcome, our primary focus is advancing ecological research through digital and computational tools. The EcoDL 2025 workshop seeks to foster conversations around innovation in ecological informatics, supporting open science and advancing digital methods for ecological research and environmental sustainability.
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ecodl2025/

Organizers

  • Jennifer D’Souza
  • Birgitta Koenig-Ries
  • Tina Heger
  • Marie I. Kaiser

Tutorial

BIRDS: Building Innovative Research Systems for Digital Libraries

Short description

The first workshop on Building Innovative Research Systems for Digital Libraries (BIRDS) will take place at TPDL 2025 as a full-day workshop. BIRDS addresses practitioners working in digital libraries and GLAMs as well as researchers from computational domains such as data science, information retrieval, natural language processing, and data modelling. Our interdisciplinary workshop focuses on connecting members of both worlds. One of today's biggest challenges is the increasing information flood. Large language models like ChatGPT seem to offer good performance for answering questions on the web. So, shall we just build upon that idea and use chatbots in digital libraries? Or do we need to design and develop specialized and effective access paths? Answering these questions requires to connect different communities, practitioners from real digital libraries and researchers in the area of computer science. In brief, our workshop's goal is thus to support researchers and practitioners to build the next generation of innovative and effective digital library systems.
Website: https://ws-birds.github.io/birds2025.github.io/

Presenters

  • Christin Katharina Kreutz
  • Hermann Kroll