=== REGISTRATION OPEN ===
International UDC Seminar 2013 entitled "Classification & Visualization:
Interfaces to Knowledge" will take place on Thursday 24 - Friday 25 October in
the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek), The Hague
Conference website: http://seminar.udcc.org/2013.
The objective of this conference is to explore cutting edge advances and
techniques in the visualization of knowledge across various fields of
application and their potential impact on developments in the more main stream
bibliographic and documentary classifications.
The conference will be opened by Emer. Prof. W. Boyd Rayward, well-known
historian of the international organization of knowledge and the history of
documentation and information science. His keynote address will set the scene
for discussions on models and metaphors of knowledge and information
visualization that bridge historical and technological perspectives.
A series of eminent speakers will follow: Lev Manovich, Kathryn La Barre,
Fabrice Papy, Marcel Worring, Luca Rosati, Andrea Resmini, Scott Weingart,
Richard Smiraglia, Charles van den Heuvel, Andrea Scharnhorst etc.
To learn more about conference programme and to register go to the conference
website http://seminar.udcc.org/2013
Early bird registration opens on 15 May 2013:
EUR180 early bird fee, students EUR140 (to 30 June)
EUR220 regular fee, students EUR180
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About the organizer: Classification & Visualization is the fourth biennial
conference in a series of UDC Seminars organized by the Universal Decimal
Classification Consortium (UDC Consortium). UDCC is not-for-profit organization,
based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the UDC and to
support its use and development (http://www.udcc.org). UDC is one of the most
widely used knowledge organization systems in the bibliographic domain.
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