Mondeca is presenting at Taxonomy Bootcamp in Washington, USA (October 31, 2011)

Mondeca has been selected to speak at Taxonomy Bootcamp in Washington, USA on October 31, 2011:

Taxonomy Alignment: EU Publications Office

Laurent Bégin, Senior Consultant, Mondeca

The Publications Office of the European Union launched several initiatives to leverage the Office’s controlled vocabularies and indexing tools to facilitate metadata interoperability and access to multilingual government content. One initiative, a taxonomy alignment, aims to improve automatic indexing and re-indexing of existing content, support automatic query expansion, and ultimately, help the Publication Office to join the “Linked Data” community. It uses advanced semantic technologies and is specifically powered by AROMA, INRIA Exmo’s ontology matcher. This talk explains why and how the EU relies on taxonomy alignment to achieve its objectives and covers: the technology behind semantic ontology matching, examples of alignment between various taxonomies and thesauri, manual quality control, and validation of matching relations based on scores

http://www.taxonomybootcamp.com/2011