University at Buffalo

Dagobert Soergel

Dagobert Soergel

Professor 10 Months

INFORMATION SCIENCE

Specialty/Research Focus

Information Science; Information Literacy; Problem Based Learning; Research Design

Contact Information
534 Baldy Hall
North Campus
Phone: (716) 645-2412
dsoergel@buffalo.edu
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Overview Research and Teaching Publications Activities News
Education and Training:
  • Dr. phil. (PhD), University of Freiburg, Germany, Politikwissenschaft (Political Science) (1970)
Grants:
Grant:
  • Clinical and Translational Science Awards; Foundation and Research Organization; Buffalo Clinical and Translational Research Center; Awarded; (08/01/2015-05/31/2016)
Publications:
Journal Article:
  • Zhang, P. & Soergel, D. (2019). Cognitive mechanisms in sensemaking: A qualitative user study. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. doi:10.1002/asi.24221
  • Li, S., Sun, Y., & Soergel, D. (2018). Automatic Decision Support for Clinical Diagnostic Literature using Link Analysis in a Weighted Keyword Network. Journal of Medical Systems, 42(2), pp. 1-12.
  • Soergel, D. & Popescu, D. (2018). The Future of Enterprise Search. Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries, (19) pp. 96-108.
  • Li, S., Sun, Y., & Soergel, D. (2018). Automatic Decision Support for Clinical Diagnostic Literature using Link Analysis in a Weighted Keyword Network. Journal of Medical Systems, 42(2), 1-12.
  • Berti Junior, D., Soergel, D, Lima, G., & Maculan, B. (2017). Padrões de Relacionamentos em Tesauros: uma proposta para regras de semi-automatização de relacionamentos [Relationship patterns in thesauri: A proposal for semi-automation of relationships]. Informação & Informação, Londrina, v. 22, n. 3, Sept. / Dec. 2017.
  • Soergel, Dagoberto. (2017, December) Apresentação. Ciência da Informação, [S.l.], v. 46, n. 1, dec. 2017. Available at: http://revista.ibict.br/ciinf/article/view/4026/3448.
  • Deng, J., & Soergel, D.(2016, January 01). Concept maps to support paper topic exploration and student-advisor communication. Knowledge Organization for a Sustainable World: Challenges and Perspectives for Cultural, Scientific, and Technological Sharing in a Connected Society : Proceedings of the Fourteenth International ISKO Conference 27-29 September 2016 Rio, 15, 275-282.
  • Soergel, D., & Helfer, O. (2016, January 01). A Metrics Ontology. An intellectual infrastructure for defining, managing, and applying metrics. Knowledge Organization for a Sustainable World: Challenges and Perspectives for Cultural, Scientific, and Technological Sharing in a Connected Society : Proceedings of the Fourteenth International ISKO Conference 27-29 September 2016 Rio, 15, 333-341.
  • Zhang, Pengyi; Soergel, Dagobert (2016) Process Patterns and Conceptual Changes in Knowledge Representations During Information Seeking and Sense making: A Qualitative User Study. Journal of Information Science. 2016-2; 42 (1): 59-78 DOI: 10.1177/0165551515615834
  • Li, Shuqing; Sun, Ying; Soergel, Dagobert (2015) A new method for automatically constructing domain-oriented term taxonomy based on weighted word co-occurrence analysis Scientometrics 2015-06; 103(3):1023-1042. DOI:10.1007/s11192
  • Huang, X., Soergel, D., & Klavans, J. (2015). Modeling and Analyzing the Topicality of Art Images. Journal of the Association of Information Science and Technology; 66(8), pp. 1616-1644.
  • Li, S., Sun, Y., & Soergel, D. (2015). A new method for automatically constructing domain-oriented term taxonomy based on weight word co-occurrence analysis. Scientometrics; 103(3), pp. 1023-1042.
  • Soergel, D. (2015). Knowledge Organization for Learning Conjectures and Methods of Study. Ciência da Informação. Special issue Informação e Tecnologia, 2013; 42(2), pp. 232-254.
  • Ahn, J. W., Soergel, D., Lin, X., Zhang, M., & Ying, W. (2014). Mapping between ARTstor terms and the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International ISKO Conference (Advances in Knowledge Organization); 14, pp.184-191.
  • Huang, X., Soergel, D., & Klavans, J. (2014). Modeling and Analyzing the Topicality of Art Images. Journal of the Association of Information Science and Technology; 66(8), pp.1616-1644.
  • Soergel, D. (2014). Knowledge Organization for Learning. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International ISKO Conference (Advances in Knowledge Organization); 14, pp. 22-32.
  • Zhang, P., & Soergel, D. (2014). Towards a comprehensive model of the cognitive process and the mechanism of individual sensemaking. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology; 65(9), pp. 1733-1756.
  • Huang, X., & Soergel, D. (2013). Relevance: An improved framework for explicating the notion. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology; 64(1), pp. 18-35.
  • Huang, X., & Soergel, D.(2013). Applying a generic function-based topical relevance typology to structure clinical questions and answers. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology; 64(1), pp. 65-85.
  • Athanasopoulos, G., Fox, E., Ioannidis, Y., Kakaletris, G., Manola, N., Meghini, C., Rauber, A., Soergel, D. (2010). A Functionality Perspective on Digital Library Interoperability. ECDL Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries; 6273, pp. 405-408.
  • Wang, J., & Soergel, D. (2010) A user study of relevance judgments for e-discovery. Proceedings of ASIST; 47(1), pp. 1-10.
  • Klavans, J., Sheffield, C., Abels, E., Lin, J., Passonneau, R., Sidhu, T., Soerel, D. (2009) Computational linguistics for metadata building (CLiMB): using text mining for the automatic identification, categorization, and disambiguation of subject terms for image metadata. Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications; 42(1), pp. 115.
  • Zhang, P., Plenttenberg, L., Klavans, J., Oard, D., & Soergel, D. (2007). Task-based interaction with an integrated multilingual, multimedia information system: A formative evaluation. Joint Conference on Digital Conference; pp. 117-126.
  • Komlodi, A., Marchionini, & Soergel, D. (2007). Search history support for finding information: User interface design recommendations from a user study. Information Processing & Management; 43(1), pp. 10-29.
  • Komlodi, A., Soergel, D., & Marchionini, G. (2006). Search histories for user interfaces. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology; 57(6), pp 803-807.
  • Slaughter, L., Soergel, D., & Rindflesch, T. (2006) Identification and Representation of semantic relationship types within consumer health questions and physician-provided answers. International Journal of Medical Informatics; 75(7), pp. 513-529.
  • Soergel, D., Lauser, B., Liang, A., Fisseha, F., Keizer, J., & Katz, S. (2006). Reengineering Thesauri for New Applications: the AGROVOC Example. Journal of Digital Information, 4(4). Available at https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/index.php/jodi/article/view/112/111
  • Aussenac-Gilles, N., & Soergel, D. (2005) Text analysis for ontology and terminology engineering. Applied Ontology; 1(1), pp. 35-46
  • Kawtrakul, A., Imsombut, A., Thunyakijjanukit, A., Soergel, D., Liang, A.,Sini, M., Johannsen, G., & Keizer, J. (2005). Automatic Term Relationship Cleaning and Refinement for AGROVOC. Proceedings of the EFITA/WCCA 2005 Joint Conference, pp. 1146-1154.
  • Newton Lawley, K., Soergel, D., & Huang, X. (2005). Relevance criteria used by teachers in selecting oral history materials. Proceedings ASIST 2005, pp. 421-448.
  • Soojung, K., & Soergel, D. (2005). Selecting and Measuring Task Characteristics as Independent Variables. Proceedings ASIST 2005, pp. 163-186.
  • Byrne, W., Doermann, D., Franz, M., Gustman, S., Hajic, J., Oard, D., Picheny, M., Psutka, J., Ramabhadran, B., Soergel, D., Ward, T., & Zhu, W. (2004). Automatic Recognition of Spontaneous Speech for Access to Multilingual Oral History Archives. IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing; 12(4), pp. 420-435.
  • Oard, D., Soergel, D., Xiaoli, H. Franz, M., Doermann, D., Murray, G., Wang, J., Ramabhadran, B., & Gustman, S. (2004) Building an information retrieval test collection for spontaneous conversational speech. SIG-IR; July, pp. 41-48.
  • Soergel, D., Tse, T., & Slaughter, L. (2004). Helping healthcare consumers understand: an "interpretive layer" for finding and making sense of medical information. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics; 107, pp. 931-935.
  • Xiaoli, H., & Soergel, D. (2004) Relevance judges' understanding of topical relevance types: An explication of an enriched concept of topical relevance. Proceedings of the 67th ASIST Annual Meeting; pp. 156-167.
  • Soergel, D. (2003). Building a more meaningful Web. ACM SIGIR Forum, 37(2), pp. 65.
  • Tse, T., & Soergel, D. (2003). Exploring medical expressions used by consumers and the media: an emerging view of consumer health vocabularies. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 674-8.
  • Kim, J., Oard, D., & Soergel, D. (2003). Searching large collections of recorded speech. A preliminary study. Proceedings of the 66th ASIST Annual Meeting. pp 330-339.
  • Slaughter, L., & Soergel, D. (2003). How physicians' answers relate to health consumers' questions. Proceedings of the 66th ASIST Annual Meeting. pp. 28-39.
  • Tse, T., & Soergel, D. (2003). Procedures for mapping vocabularies from non-professional discourse a case study: Consumer medical vocabulary. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology; 40(1), 174-183.
  • Oard, D. W., Demner-Fushman, D., Soergel, D., Dorr, B., Resnik, P., Hajic, J., Ramabhadran, B., ... 5th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, TSD 2002. (2002, January 01). Cross-language access to recorded speech in the MALACH project. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2448, 57-64.
  • Komlodi, A., & Soergel, D. (2002). Attorneys Interacting with Legal Information Systems: Tools for Mental Model Building and Task Integration. Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 39, 152-63.
  • Soergel, D. (1999). The rise of ontologies or the reinvention of classification. Journal of the American Society for Information Science; 50(12), pp. 1119-1120.
  • Soergel, D., Ding, W., & Marchionini (1999) Performance of visual, verbal, and combined video surrogates. Proceedings of the 62nd ASIS Annual Meeting. pp. 651-664.
  • Soergel, D., Ding, W., & Marchionini, G.(1999) Multimodal surrogates for video browsing. Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries. pp. 85-93.
  • Wang, P., & Soergel, D. (1998) A cognitive model of document use during a research project. Study I. Document selection. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 49(2), pp. 115-133.
  • Soergel, D. (1996). SemWeb. Proposal for an open multifunctional, multilingual system for integrated access to knowledge base about concepts and terminology. Proceedings of the Fourth International ISKO Conference(Advances in Knowledge Organization). 5, pp. 165-173.
  • Soergel, D. (1995) Framework for data element standardization. Proceedings of the 6th ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop (Advances in Classification Research). 6, pp. 115-126.
  • Soergel, D. (1995). The Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT): A critical appraisal. Visual Resouces. 10(4); pp.369-400.
  • Soergel, D. (1994) Software support for thesaurus construction and display. Proceedings of the 5th ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop (Advances in Classification Research). 10:5, pp. 157-184.
  • Wang, P., & Soergel, D. (1993). Beyond topical relevance: Document selection behavior of real users of IR systems. American Society of Information Science Annual Meeting Proceeding. 30; pp. 87-92.
  • Soergel, D., Pennigton, J., McCann, A., Holden, J., Smith, E., & Wiley, R. (1992). A network model for improving access to food and nutrition data. Journal of the American Dietic Association. 92(1); pp.78-82.
  • Lin, X., Soergel, D., & Marchonini, G.(1991) A self-organizing semantic map for information retrieval. Proceedings of the 14th International ACM/SIGIR. pp. 262-269.
  • Soergel, D.(1991). Beyond facets: Semantic roots and modifiers as elements of a conceptual morphology. Proceedings of the 2nd American Society for Information Science (Advances in Classification). 3: pp. 149-158.
  • McCann, A., Pennington, J., Smith, E., Holden, J., Soergel, D., & Wiley, R. (1988). Food and Drug Administration's Factored Food Vocabulary for food product description. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 88(3); pp. 336-341.
  • Fidel, R., & Soergel, D.(1983). Factors Affecting Online Bibliography Retrieval: A Conceptual Framework for Research. Journal of American Society for Information Science. 34(3). p. 163-180.
  • Soergel, D. (1982) Structure and Construction of Numeric Data Bases. Drexel Library Quarterly. Summer/Fall; 19(3-4). pp. 135-146.
  • Packer, K. H., & Soergel, D. (1979). The importance of SDI for current awareness in fields with severe scatter of information. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 30, 3, 125-135.
  • Packer, K. H., & Soergel, D. (1979, May 01). The importance of SDI for current awareness in fields with severe scatter of information. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 30, 3, 125-135.
  • Soergel, D. (1977). An automated encyclopedia-- a solution of the information problem?. International Classification. 4(1): pp. 4-10; 4(2): pp.81-89.
  • Soergel, D. (1976). Is user satisfaction a hobgoblin?. Journal of American Society for Information Science. 27(4). pp. 256-259.
  • Soergel, D. (1976, July 01). Is user satisfaction a hobgoblin?. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 27, 4, 256-259.
  • Soergel, D (1974) "Automatic and semi-automatic methods as an aid in the construction of indexing languages and thesauri," Int. Classif., vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 34-39.
  • Soergel, D., & Bates, M. (1974). A modern integrated introduction to library and information services. American Society for Information Science/ SIG-ED News. 1974. 11-ED-1,7-11
  • Soergel, D., & Bates, M. (1974). A modern integrated introduction to library and information services. American Society for Information Science/SIG-ED News. 11(ED-1). pp. 7-11.
  • Soergel, D., & Leonov, V. (1974). Compressing and abstracting of information and information utilities. American Society for Information Science Proceedings, 10 (11). pp 46-49.
  • Soergel, D. (1972, September 01). A universal source thesaurus as a classification generator. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 23, 5, 299-305.
  • Sorgel, Dagobert; Furmaniak, Karl. (1970) The description of statistical tables: a problem in data documentation. American Society for Information Science. Proceedings. 7: 331-336.
Book Chapter:
  • Soergel, Dagobert. (2018).Many ways of being relevant. Information support for problem-solving and decision making. In Jan Strassheim and Hisashi Nasu (Editors) Relevance and Irrelevance: Theories, Factors and Challenges. Walter de Gruyter.
Book Review:
  • Soergel, Dagobert. (2017). [Review of] The Selected Works of Marcia J. Bates. Volume I, The Selected Works of Marcia J. Bates. Volume II Information Searching Theory and Practice., The Selected Works of Marcia J. Bates. Volume III Information Users and Information System Design, by Marcia J. Bates]. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. DOI: 10.1002/asi.23879. Published online 2017-10-24. To be published in print.
  • Soergel, D. (1979). The Broad System of Ordering [Review]. International Forum of Information and Documentation, 4(3), 21-24
Other:
  • Baracho, R., Soergel, D., Pereira Junior, M., & Henriques, M. (2019). A Proposal for Developing a Comprehensive Ontology for Smart Cities / Smart Buildings / Smart Life. In Callaos, N., Chu, H., Horne, J., Lunsford, S., Sanchez, B., & Savoie, M. (Eds.). Proceedings Volume II of the 10th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies (pp. 110-115). Winter Garden Florida: International Institute of Informatics and Systemics.
  • Zhang, P., & Soergel, D. (2006) Knowledge-based approaches to the segmentation of the segmentation of oral history interviews. MALACH Technical Report, May 2006. pp. 52.
  • Obrst, L., Cassidy, P., Ray, S., Smith, B., Soergel, D., West, M., & Yim, P. (2006). The 2006 Upper Ontology Summit Joint Communique´. Applied Ontology; 1(2), pp. 203-211.
  • Zhang, P., & Soergel, D. (2006) Knowledge-based approaches to the segmentation of oral history interviews. MALACH Technical Report. 2006-May. Available at https://malach.umiacs.umd.edu/pubs/PZ_06_Knowl-Based.pdf
  • Rubin, H., & Soergel, D. (2005). Typology of errors in ASR transcription of oral history interviews. MALACH Technical Report; August 2005, pp. 12, app. 1-5.
  • Soergel, D. (2005) Power to the People: Report on the 9th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. D-Lib, November, 11(11).
  • Soergel, D., Christensen-Dalsgaard, B., Ioanidis, Y., & Schuldt, H.-Editors (2005). Recommendations and Observations for a European Digital Library (EDL). In response to the European Commission's call for online consultation. DELOS: Technical Report. December, 2005.
  • White, R., Oard, D., Jones, G., Soergel, D., & Huang, X. (2005) Overview of the CLEF 2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval Track. Multilingual Information Repositories, Revised Selected Papers, pp. 744-759.
  • Soergel, D. (2002). A framework for digital library research: Broadening the vision. D-Lib Magazine, December 2002; 8(12). Available at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december02/soergel/12soergel.html
  • Soergel, D. (2001) TermMaster: Software for Creating and Maintaining Thesauri and Ontologies. D-Lib Magazine. September 2001; 7(9). Available at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september01/09inbrief.html#SOERGEL
  • Soergel, D. (1997) An information science manifesto. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science. November 1997/January 1998; 24(2), pp.10-12.
  • Soergel, D.(1983) A Program of Logo Instruction: Objectives and Methods. Washington Apple Pi. 5(5); pp. 20-21.
  • Soergel, D.(1983) Logo Illustrations. Washington Apple Pi. 5(45): pp. 10-11,17.
Presentations:
Invited Lectures:
  • Soergel, D., Popescu, D., Dubas, S. P. (2017). Know What the User is Asking Semantic Detection of Question Type to Focus Search Results on User Intent. NKOS Workshop at DC-2017. Washington, DC.;
  • Soergel, Dagobert. (2017) Keynote presentation 3-hour Tutorial: Ontology-driven enterprise data harmonization. ONTORAS - Seminario de Pesquisa em Ontologias do Brasil (Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil) 2017-08-28/30, Brasilia, Brazil.;
  • Soergel, D. (2014, Nov.). A universal source thesaurus (or A universal KOS database). Invited opening presentation, 2nd Knowledge in Diversity Workshop. University of Trento, Italy.;
  • Soergel, D. (2014, Oct.). New ways of information support for thinking and problem solving. Invited presentation, Brasilian Information Science Conference (ENANCBIB 2014) Research Day, concluding roundtable, UFMG, Belo Horizonte.;
  • Soergel, D. (2014, Oct.). Ontology mapping. A concept hub for storing mapping data and linguistic methods for producing mappings. Seminar talk, School of Information, UC Berkeley.;
  • Soergel, D. (2014, Oct.). The Landscape of Information Science Research. Research questions and methods. Invited lecture, Brasilian Information Science Conference (ENANCBIB 2014) Research Day, UFMG, Belo Horizonte.;
  • Soergel, D. (2014, Sept.). Knowledge Organization for Learning. Conjectures and Methods of Study. Keynote lecture, National Doctoral Symposium on Library Science.;
  • Soergel, D. (2014, Sept.). Ontology mapping. A concept hub for storing mapping data and linguistic methods for producing mappings. Presentation, Department of Information Management, Peking University.;
  • Soergel, D. (2003) Standards for KOS. Present status and future requirements, presented at the NKOS workshop- ECDL, 2003-08-21, Trondheim, Norway.;
  • Soergel, D. (2003). Supporting access to large digital oral history archives, presentation at the School of Information Management and Systems UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 2003-10-24.;
  • Soergel, D. (2001). The many uses of classification: Enriched thesauri as knowledge sources, keynote address at 64th ASIS&T Annual Meeting-ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop 12, 2001-11-04, Washington, DC.;
  • Soergel, D. (1999). The need for (and feasibility of developing) a standard set of tools which show semantic relationships among terms, as aids to text and information analysis and retrieval, presentation at the NISO/ASI/ALCTS Workshop on Electronic Thesauri: Planning for a Stanard, 1999-11-4/5, Washington, DC.;
Conferences:
  • Balakrishnan, J., Vob, J., & Soergel, D. (2018). Towards integrated systems for KOS management, mapping, and access. Coli-conc and its collaborative computer-assisted KOS mapping tool Cocoda. In F. Ribeiro, & M. Cerveira (Eds.), Challenges and Opportunities for Knowledge Organization in the Digital Age. Paper presented at the 15th International ISKO Conference, 9-11, July. Porto, Portugal. (pp. 128-136). Ergon, Baden-Baden, Germany.;
  • Baracho, R., & Soergel, D. (2019). Interdisciplinary Research and Practice in Smart Cities/ Smart Buildings/ Smart Life. Presented at IMCIC 2019. Orlando, Florida, 12-15, March.;
  • Berti, D. W., Lima, G., Maculan, B., Soergel, D. (2018). Computer-assisted checking of conceptual relationships in a large thesaurus. In F. Ribeiro, & M. Cerveira (Eds.), Challenges and Opportunities for Knowledge Organization in the Digital Age. Paper presented at the 15th International ISKO Conference, Porto, Portugal, 9-11, July. (pp. 693-701), Ergon, Baden-Baden, Germany.;
  • Soergel, D., & Escudo, F. (2018). Turning documents into active knowledge: A universal document model with rich component indexing. Proceedings III Seminário MHTX - Escola de Ciência da Informação, (pp. 8-23). Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 7-8 June;
  • Soergel, D., Escudero, I., & Felipe S. (2018). Toward a Universal Document Model for Active Knowledge 14th International Conference on Knowledge Management, Vancouver, Canada, 9-10 November.;
  • Soergel, Dagobert. (2018). Innovative Education Enabled by Knowledge Organization and IT: Goal-directed, Flexible, Individualized, Collaborative. In Conference Proceedings: The Future of Education, Webster. Padova, Italy, 28-29, June. (pp. 273-278). libreriauniversitaria it Edizioni Florence, Italy.;
  • Soergel, D., Popescu, D., Dubas, S. P. (2017). Know what the user is asking semantic detection of question type to focus search results on user intent, paper presented at NKOS Workshop at DC-2017. 2017-10-28, Washington, DC.;
  • Soergel, Dagobert. (2017). Facilitating knowledge transfer across disciplinary boundaries through multi-perspective knowledge organization systems (KOS), paper presented at ASIS&T SIG/CR Workshop on Building a Research Agenda for Multi-Perspective Knowledge Representation. 2017-10-27, Washington, DC.;
  • Soergel, Dagobert. (2017). The principle of compositionality and entity-relationship modelling: faceted classification in a broader context, paper presented at International UDC Seminar 2017, Faceted Classification Today: Theory, Technology, and End Users. 14th-15th September. London, UK.;
  • Soergel, Dagobert. (2017). Towards a general ontology for describing processes, events, and stories/ narratives, paper presented at ISKO UK biennial conference- Knowledge Organization- what’s the story? Classification, Indexing, Taxonomies, and Ontologies- current state and direction of travel. 11th -12th September. London, UK.;
  • Popescu, D., Prudius, V., Replogle , T., & Soergel, D. (2017) Harmonizing Multi-Model Data at the World Bank. Marklogic World 2017: Chicago, IL. Available at http://www.marklogic.com/resources/harmonizing-multi-model-data-world-bank/resource_download/presentations/;
  • Soergel, D.(2016, June). Knowledge Organization and Information Retrieval: A Research Agenda. Paper and Powerpoint presented at the II Seminário do Grupo De Pesquisa MHTX ECI, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, (Opening Presentation);
  • Soergel, Dagobert. (2016) Common Metrics, HUB-specific metrics, and RBA. CTSA Evaluators Call, 2016-11-15. (Power Point Presentation).;
  • Soergel, Dagobert. (2017). Facilitating knowledge transfer across disciplinary boundaries through multi-perspective knowledge organization systems (KOS). ASIS&T SIG/CR Workshop on Building a Research Agenda for Multi-Perspective Knowledge Representation. Washington, DC;
  • Soergel, Dagobert. (2017). The principle of compositionality and entity-relationship modelling: faceted classification in a broader context. International UDC Seminar 2017, Faceted Classification Today: Theory, Technology, and End Users. 14-15 September. London, UK.;
  • Soergel, Dagobert. (2017). Towards a general ontology for describing processes, events, and stories/ narratives. ISKO UK biennial conference- Knowledge Organization- what’s the story? Classification, Indexing, Taxonomies, and Ontologies- current state and direction of travel. 11th -12th September. London, UK.;
  • Soergel, D. (2017). Knowledge Organization for Learning. Conjectures and Methods of Study Ciencia da Informacao.;
  • Soergel, D. (2003). Brief report on NKOS at JCDL 2003, presentation at the NKOS Workshop, ECDL 2003, 2003-08-21, Trondheim, Norway.;
  • Kim, J., Soergel, D., & Oard, D. (2003). User interaction in speech and video retrieval: Relevance judgment and query reformulation, paper presented at the HCIL Annual Symposium and Open House, 2003-05-30, College Park, MD.;
  • Soergel, D. (2002). The structure of taxonomies: Facets and hierarchy, presented at Practical Taxonomies, 2002-11-18/20, New York, NY.;
  • Soergel, D. (2003). From legacy KOS to full-fledged ontologies, paper presented at the JCDL2003, NKOS Workshop, 2003-05-31, Houston, TX.;
  • Soergel, D. (2001). Concept analysis in thesaurus construction. The example of prevention in the Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus 3rd edition, paper presented at the ELISAD Conference, 2001-10-25/27, Stockholm, Sweden.;
  • Soergel, D. (2001). The representation of Knowledge Organization Structure (KOS) data. A multiplicity of standards, paper presented at the JCDL, 2001-06-28, Roanoke, VA.;
  • Soergel, D. (1999). Enriched thesauri as networked knowledge bases for people and machines, paper presented at the CENDI Conference Controlled Vocabulary and the Internet, 1999-09-29, Bethesda, MD.;
  • Soergel, D. (1999). SemWeb: integrated access to distributed classification and lexical resources, paper presented at ALA Annual Conference/Lina/Intelligent and Knowledge-Based Systems Interest Group, 1999-06-27, New Orleans, LA.;
  • Soergel, D. (1998). Large multilingual vocabularies: structure and software requirements, paper presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Cross-Language Applications and Large-Scale Vocabularies, 1998-10-25/29, Pittsburgh, PA.;
  • Soergel, D. (1995). Data models for an integrated thesaurus database, paper presented at the Research Seminar on Compatibility and Integration of Order Systems, 1995-09-13/15, Warsaw, Poland.;
  • Soergel, D. (1994). A multifunctional, multilingual thesaurus, paper presented at the 36th Allerton Institute, New Roles for Classification in Libraries and Information Networks, 1994-10-23/25, Monticello, IL.;
  • Soergel, D. (1994). The Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus: a tool for collaboration, paper presented at the 6th Annual ELISAD meeting, 1994-10-7, Utrecht, Netherlands.;
  • Soergel, D. & Helfert, S. (1993). The AOD thesaurus: A new tool for organizing resource files in RADAR and other agencies, paper presented at the 15th Annual SALIS Conference, 1993-10-3/6, San Francisco, CA.;
  • Soergel, D. (1991). On the structure of hypertext and retrieval systems: A unifying view, paper presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 1991-10-27/31, Washington, DC.;
  • Soergel, D. (1992). New vistas for knowledge-based support for complex organizations, paper presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 1992-10-25/29, Pittsburgh, PA.;
  • Soergel, D. (1988). How does one design a database?, paper presented at the New York Library Association Conference; Academic and Special Libraries Section, 1988-10-13, Buffalo, NY.;
  • Soergel, D. (1989). Improved access to the LC Classification and the LC Subject Headings for online searchers and catalogers through conceptual analysis, presented in OCLC's Distinguished Seminar Series, 1989-03-14, Dublin, OH.;
  • Soergel, D. (1987). A course in knowledge representation as the foundation of the new information studies curriculum. A proposal, presentation at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 1987/10/6, Boston, MA.;
  • Soergel, D., Smith, E., Holden, J., McCann, A., & Wiley, R. (1984). The FDA's Factored Food Vocabulary (FFV), poster presented at the 9th National Nutrient Data Bank Conference.;
  • Soergel, D. (1982). Data models for integrated thesauri, paper presented at the American Society for Information Science, Pre-conference workshop on Compatibility of Index Languages, 1982-10-17, Columbus, Ohio.;
  • Soergel, D. (1976) Trends in dissertation research. Presented at Meeting of the American Association of Library Schools, Research Interest Group. Chicago, IL.;
  • Soergel, D., & Bates, M. (1974). A modern integrated introduction to library and information services. American Society for Information Science/SIG-ED News. Presented at ASIS meeting, 1974-10-15. Technical Session of SIG-Education for Information Science. Atlanta, GA.;
  • Soergel, D., & Bates, M. (1974). A Modern Integrated Introduction to Library and Information Services. Presented at the ASIS meeting. 1974-10-15. Technical Session of SIG/ Education for Information Science.;
  • Soergel, D., & Soergel, D. (1971). Mathematical models in the theory of classification: An illustration. Demonstration lecture at the American Library Association Conference/LED Teachers Section Program, Dallas, Texas.;
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Activities:
Editorial and Review:
  • ISKO UK, London, Review Panel
    02/21/2017-03/19/2017
  • JASIST Manuscript Review: 2016-10-0587 Improving Question Retrieval Using Dependency Relations and Question Classifications
    11/16/2016-12/16/2016
  • JASIST Manuscript Review, 2015-09-30 Introducing Facetometrics: A New Keyword-based Measure for Locating Research Areas of a Subject
    09/15/2015-09/15/2015
  • JASIST Manuscript Review, 2015-06-0402
    06/25/2015-06/25/2015
  • Information Research, 1 paper reviewed
    05/01/2015-05/31/2015
  • Reviewer for ASIST 2015 conference, 3 papers reviewed
    05/01/2015-05/31/2015
  • Journal of Information Science, 1 paper reviewed
    04/01/2015-04/30/2015
  • Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 1 paper reviewed
    03/01/2015-03/31/2015
  • International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies 2015, 2 papers reviewed
    03/01/2015-03/31/2015
  • International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies 2014, 1 paper reviewed
    09/01/2014-09/30/2014
Professional Service:
  • 18th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop, Program Committee
    05/01/2018-09/13/2018
  • Germination Space: A Place to Think Big, Spring 2018; funded by the National Science Foundation (EFRI-1745897/1745891)
    02/01/2018-05/31/2018
  • 15th International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) 2018, Program Committee
    07/24/2017-05/15/2018
  • 11th US NKOS Workshop, Program Committee
    06/01/2017-10/30/2017
  • International UDC Seminar, Program Committee. Three Paper Proposals Reviewed
    02/21/2017-03/12/2017
  • The 16th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) workshop. Copenhagen, Denmark. Program Committee.
    07/01/2016-10/15/2016
  • ISKO Rio 2016 Program Committee Member. Three paper proposals reviewed.
    07/01/2016-09/20/2016
  • Two External Tenure and Promotional Cases -One promotion to asst. professor with tenure. -One promotion to full professor
    06/01/2016-05/31/2017
  • DCMI International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (Program Committee Member)
    06/01/2015-09/21/2015
  • ASIST Award Research Jury, Chair
    05/01/2015-08/15/2016
  • International UDC Seminar, Program Committee
    03/01/2015-03/31/2015
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