The latest UDC products brochures by AENOR (UDC in Spanish) and BSI (UDC in English) can be dowloaded from the UDC products webpage.

A short report from the UDC Seminar 2009 "Classification at a Crossroad: multiple directions to usability is published in the latest issue of the Classification and Indexing Section Newsletter (IFLA). The issue also contain a short text about the multilingual UDC Summary project.

UDC Summary, a selection of around 2000 classes from the UDC MRF is now available in 16 languages.

Outputs from the UDC Seminar 2009, including photographs, presentations and recordings are available from the conference website.

UDC Update Session at World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly "Libraries create futures: Building on cultural heritage", 23-27 August 2009, Milan, Italy - will take place on

Tuesday, 25 August 2009
12:00-13.00
Room Turquoise 2

In February 2009, a new UDC licence scheme and new prices have been approved by the UDC Consortium.

There are two main categories of licences: publishing and licences for UDC MRF use.

For many existing and prospective UDC users it is important to understand that they do not need licence if they

• apply UDC schedule content for information and knowledge organization from a copy of a publication (printed or CD-ROM) or by accessing an authorised UDC online service


• manually apply the UDC (i.e. there is no use of the UDC MRF) for organizing and indexing of resources for the purpose of document/shelf arrangement, organization of information gateways and library catalogue and in information retrieval where UDC numbers may appear as a part of your document labels or resource description.

Following a licence application, licences can be purchased according to the license pricing scheme, negotiated or, in exceptional cases, granted for free. There is also an option to negotiate a non-standard licence for cases when this may be of benefit to users and the UDC development.

Read more about licence policy, terms and prices here.

Following the success of the first International Seminar on UDC, the second in a series of biennial conferences entitled Classification at a Crossroads: Multiple Directions to Usability will take place on 29-30 October 2009 in the UDC headquarters at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague.

To read more about the conference topics and call for papers visit the conference website.

An updated overview of UDC editions and a bibliography of translations in 39 languages is provided at http://www.udcc.org/bibliography.htm

The new 29 (2007) issue of the Extensions and Corrections to the UDC has now been published. The Annex of the issue (pages 159-321) contains Proceedings of the International Seminar “Information Access for the Global Community”, 4-5 June 2007.

See the table of contents and ordering information.

At the UDC seminar 2007 in The Hague, MagnaView presented an innovative visual application which gives you the possibility to view the UDC Master Reference File in novel ways, and to interact with it visually. More information about UDC Viewer features, price and purchase is available in the MagnaView brochure.

Conference Announcement: STI-2007, Moscow, 24-26 October 2007
7th International Conference on Information Society, Intelligent Information Processing, Information Technologies (STI-2007) see more

New e-mail address for UDC Consortium is mail[@t]udcc.orgClick on the link but please remove the
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part of the email address

Monday 20 August, 13.00-14.00h, Room 12ab

The UDC UPDATE is an informal meeting to share general information and latest news about the Universal Decimal Classification. Representatives and collaborators of the UDC Consortium will be there to exchange information and views with users and publishers of the UDC. If you are attending IFLA and are interested in UDC matters, please make a note in your conference diary!

At the UDC Seminar in June, MagnaView announced that a special UDC-version of their application for visualising UDC MRF would be released on July 1. MagnaView has decided to postpone this release until September 1 to further improve this version. Their presentation "Visual Universal Decimal Classification?" and a summary of their talk can be viewed here.

Presentation files and abstracts of the talks delivered at the UDC Seminar 2007 are now linked from the Seminar's programme at http://www.udcc.org/seminar07/programme.htm.

Prof. Hermut Arntz passed away on 31 May 2007. Prof Arntz was an active member of FID Central Classification Committee and spent many years working on UDC (read more...).

We have created a UDC Weblog at http://universaldecimalclassification.blogspot.com.

A new revised edition of the UDC Guide by I.C.McIlwaine is published in June 2007.

The UDC Seminar 2007 - a two day event at the UDCC Headquarters in The Hague was opened in front of around 70 participants.

IUFRO Updated Global Forest Decimal Classification (GFDC) Published By IUFRO
IUFRO announces the publication of an extensively updated bilingual full version of English/German edition of the Global Forest Decimal Classification (GFDC). The classification is used with UDC to provide more precision for forestry subjects.

"Enhancement of UDC data for use and sharing in a networked environment": [presentation at the Librarian Workshop in conjunction with "The 31st Annual Conference of the German Classification Society on Data Analysis, Machine Learning, and Applications", March 7-9, 2007, Freiburg i. Br., Germany] by Aida Slavic, Maria Ines Cordeiro, Gerhard Riesthuis. Available at http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/