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Proceedings book: Classification & Authority Control

08/10/2015

Proceedings of the International UDC Seminar 2015 "Classification & Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery" are published by Ergon Verlag.

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.

UDC Seminar "Classification & Authority Control" - Early Bird Registration closes 31 July 2015

15/07/2015

The International UDC Seminar "Classification & Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery" will take place in The National Library of Portugal in Lisbon, on 29-30 October 2015.

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)

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.

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