The Networked Knowledge Organisation Systems/Services (NKOS) initiative held its 3rd workshop at ECDL in Bath, UK, this week. I (Alistair Miles, CCLRC) presented recent work on the SKOS specifications on behalf of myself, Brian Matthews, Dave Beckett and Nikki Rogers (download the SKOS presentation).
Although there was a session dedicated to standardisation initiatives, the main focus of the workshop was 'user-centred approaches to networked knowledge organisation systems'. There were presentations of work investigating and evaluating the usability of KOS enhanced information systems, and some good-looking search and browse interfaces demonstrated. Links to other presentations should be up on the workshop website shortly.