News

Croatian UDC Online Release
22/06/2015
UDC Online in the Croatian language Hrvatski UDK Online was released on 22 June 2015. The service is result of a collaboration between UDC Consortium and National and University Library in Zagreb.
Call for Papers Opens - International UDC Seminar 2015
05/01/2015
International UDC Seminar 2015 "Classification & Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery" will take place on 29-30 October 2015 in Lisbon (Portugal). Call for papers is open until 8th March.
Experts in authority control, classification schemes and linked data are invited to provide overviews, illustrations and analysis of classification data management and exploitation. Contributions are welcome on high quality, innovative research and practice on the following topics:
  • Classification as a component of subject authority control
  • Classification authority data formats and modeling
  • Classification and multilingual subject access
  • Sharing classification data from authority files
  • Classification data in the open linked data context
Two kinds of contributions will be accepted: conference papers and posters. Authors should submit a paper proposal in the form of an extended abstract (1000-1200 words, including references, for papers; and 500-600 words for posters). The submission form is provided on the conference website.

Proposals will be reviewed by the Programme Committee consisting of an international panel of experts. Each submission will undergo a blind review by at least three reviewers. The Conference proceedings will be published by Ergon Verlag and will be distributed at the conference.

Important dates

    08 March 2015 - Paper proposal submission deadline
    23 March 2015 - Notification of acceptance & paper submission instructions
    15 May 2015 - Papers submission (camera ready copy)

Czech UDC Online release
03/01/2015
UDC Online in the Czech language will be released for public use in January 2015.
UDC Online in Czech "České MDT Online" are the new UDC online schedules in the Czech language that will be available to Czech users from January 2015. These schedules are released by the National Library of the Czech Republic in collaboration with the UDC Consortium.
IFLA 2014 General Conference and Assembly
01/05/2014
If you happen to be in Lyon, please join us for our regular UDC Update session at the 2014 IFLA General Conference and Assembly.

Members of the UDC Editorial team will give a brief presentation on the current developments in the UDC, ongoing translation projects, forthcoming publications and events.
Monday, 18 August
12.45-13.45
Room St. Clair 3b