EuroVoc conference - Programme and presentations
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EuroVoc Conference Programme and presentations The EuroVoc conference focused on the EuroVoc thesaurus and other multilingual controlled vocabularies and indexing tools facilitating interoperability and access to multilingual information. |
| Day 1 - 18/11/2010 | |
| Opening | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Reception and registration |
| 10:30 - 11:10 |
Conference opening and welcome Inaugurative Speech by Prof. Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute. |
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Session 1: What news from EuroVoc and the Publications Office? |
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| 11:15 - 11:45 | EuroVoc, a path to the semantic web Christine Laaboudi-Spoiden, Publications Office |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Improve access to EU content through thesaurus matching Jerôme Euzenat (INRIA LIG) & Laurent Begin (Mondeca) |
| 12:15 - 12:45 | Common access to EU information - the CELLAR project presentation Peter Schmitz, Publications Office |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | Q&A from the audience |
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Session 2: Thesauri "Speed Dating" workshop |
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| 14:00 - 16:30 | Open discussion in working groups. |
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Date 1: |
European Training Thesaurus |
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Date 2: |
Unesco Thesaurus |
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Date 3: |
Gemet - General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus |
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Date 4: |
ESCO - European Taxonomy of Skills, Competencies and Occupations |
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Date 5: |
European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies |
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Date 6: |
UNBIS - the United Nations Thesaurus |
| 16:30 -16:50 | Coffee break |
| 16:50 - 17:15 | The ideal thesaurus ? Workshop conclusion |
| 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) |
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Day 2 - 19/11/2010 (Sessions 3 and 4 are parallel sessions) |
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Session 3: Toward the semantic web – Metadata and Interoperability |
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| 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 |
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Session 4: Indexing legal information |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |

