International Workshop on Integrating Taxonomies and Folksonomies for
Enhanced Knowledge Navigation (ITFEKN 2008)
Yokohama, Japan
21 November 2008

Workshop Objectives
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The Integrating Taxonomies and Folksonomies for Enhanced Knowledge
Navigation (ITFEKN 2008) workshop is the international workshop on
advances to synergy folksonomy and taxonomy to create a hybrid with
benefits for enhanced knowledge navigation. This workshop is to be
held in conjunction with 7th International Conference on Practical
Aspects of Knowledge Management (PAKM2008).

Taxonomy is a top-down communication model, which it is commonly used
in information systems particularly for content management and
knowledge management systems. However, it does not cater for the
prevailing context of the captured information to support knowledge
navigation, search and retrieval. In addition, knowledge seekers
usually are posited with their experiences with the Internet, email,
phone and mobile hand-held devices. These experiences will undoubtedly
affect the knowledge seekers behavior in navigating and searching
knowledge from knowledge repositories. With the emergence of Web 2.0,
social tagging software on web sites has seen the mass creation of
personalized tags for marking user-generated content (UGC). Such tags,
called folksonomy are uncontrolled, non-hierarchical, incomplete,
possibly redundant and even inconsistent. However, folksonomy are easy
to encode, dynamic, abundant, and reflect the prevailing context and
norms of the creators and the environment. Therefore, integrating
folksonomy into taxonomy will create new navigational facets to
support enhanced knowledge navigations to improve knowledge searching,
retrieval and navigation in a dynamic environment.

The aim of this workshop is to encourage activities in this topic and
to bring together world-wide researchers to discuss current challenges
on integrating folksonomies and taxonomies to support knowledge
searching, retrieval, and navigation. A formal framework or benchmark
for evaluating taxonomy and folksonomy integration frameworks will
also be discussed at this workshop.

Paper are solicited on, but not limited to the following topics:
* Folksonomy
* Tag Cloud
* Taxonomy
* Web 2.0
* Ontology
* Social Network
* Semantic Web
* Knowledge Discovery
* Folksonomy-Based Knowledge Navigation
* Folksonomy-Based Knowledge Retrieval
* Folksonomy-Based Knowledge Searching
* Folksonomy-Based Knowledge Visualization
* Taxonomy Construction from Folksonomy
* Taxonomy and Folksonomy Integration
* Ontology and Folksonomy Integration

Important Dates
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* Workshop paper submission deadline : 15 September 2008
* Notification of paper acceptance : 1 October 2008
* Camera-ready of accepted paper : 31 October 2008
* Workshop day : 21 November 2008 (full-day workshop)

Paper Submission
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Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research
papers. Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in
the Springer LNCS format. Please refer to the Springer LNCS web site
for the paper formatting instructions. Preferred formats are Microsoft
Word or PDF. Papers should be submitted via email to Professor Eric
Tsui, the Workshop Chair. Papers submitted to the workshop will
undergo a peer-review process. At least one author of the accepted
paper is required to attend the workshop and present the paper.

Workshop Organisers
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* Eric Tsui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (Chairman)
* Kiu Ching Chieh, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Workshop Committee
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* Dominik Benz, University of Kassel, Germany
* Celina Van Damme, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Dickson Lukose, MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia
* Eric Tsui, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
* Hak Lae Kim, National University of Ireland, Ireland
* Katharina Siorpaes, University of Innsbruck, Austria
* Kiu Ching Chieh, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
* Martin Hepp, University of Innsbruck, Austria
* Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University, Austria
* Oge Marques, Florida Atlantic University, USA
* Tanguy Coenen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Inquiries
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For more information on ITFEKN Workshop, contact Professor Eric Tsui
at Eric.Tsui@....