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UDC SEMINAR 2007
"Information Access for the Global Community"
An International Seminar on the Universal Decimal Classification
4-5 June 2007, The Hague
Programme (with Abstracts, Presentations & Papers)
A two day International Seminar on the UDC, organized by the UDC Consortium, was held at the UDC Headquarters in The Hague, 4-5 June 2007. The event was entitled "Information Access for the Global community" and its aim was to explore the latest developments and applications of the Universal Decimal Classification. The Seminar brought together UDC publishers, editors of the scheme and UDC users and offered an opportunity for information exchange and discussion of future developments.
There were around seventy participants from over thirty countries including librarians, subject specialists, editors of national editions of the scheme, university lecturers, researchers and LIS students. The conference programme included eleven invited talks on the topics of user experiences and applications, innovative approaches in UDC use and UDC education and training (see the Programme). Papers will be published in the forthcoming issue of Extensions and Corrections to the UDC, in November 2007.
The UDC Consortium chairman Alan Hopkinson and the UDC Editor in Chief Maria Inês Cordeiro invited users to increase their input to the development of the scheme and announced a newly formed international editorial team and a new editorial system that will support the online collaborative input of such a team of UDC revision experts. During 2007, the UDC MRF file will be moved to a new database with extended functionality, including improved and more diversified UDC products which will be derived from it.
The UDC Consortium announced that this successful seminar would be the first in the series of similar events it plans to organize in the future.
Photo gallery from the Seminar is available at http://travel.webshots.com/album/559759062ZEKbhB (courtesy of Agnes Hajdu Barat)
Seminar sponsors:
EBSCO
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of The Netherlands
IFLA
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