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This was the fifth in a series of successful and well attended International UDC Seminars. The conference was attended by 95 delegates from 26 countries comprising information professionals, classification and indexing specialists, researchers, practitioners, students in information and knowledge organization domain.

Classification & authority control: expanding resource discovery: proceedings of the International UDC Seminar 2015, 29-30 October 2015, Lisbon, Portugal. Edited by Aida Slavic & Maria Inês Cordeiro. Würzburg: ERGON-Verlag, 2015. 248 pages. ISBN: 978-3-95650-124-1. View the content page.

The conference will be opened by Prof. Michael Buckland, well-known expert in the history and theory of documentation and bibliographic access.

The topic of authority control, subject authority control and subject access in various contexts will be discussed by a series of eminent speakers speakers including Barbara Tillett, Dagobert Soergel, Rebecca Green, Maja Zumer, Marcia Zeng, Nuno Freire, Andrea Scharnhorst, Richard Smiraglia, Maria Ines Cordeiro, Koraljka Golub, Claudio Gnoli, Marie Balikova

See the conference Programme for more details.
Early bird registration opened on 12 June 2015:

• €200 early bird fee, students €160 (to 31 July)
• €250 regular fee, students €210 (registration closes 20 October)