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*** Apologies for cross-posting *** ==================== CALL FOR PAPERS======================= International UDC Seminar 2009 CLASSIFICATION AT A CROSSROADS - MULTIPLE DIRECTIONS TO USABILITY The Hague, 29-30 October 2009 Following the success of the first International Seminar on UDC in 2007, this the second in a series of biennial conferences is entitled "Classification at a Crossroads: Multiple Directions to Usability" and will take place on 29-30 October 2009 in the UDC headquarters at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague. The 2009 Seminar aims to explore how new developments in information standards and technology influence and affect applications and services using classification, Universal Decimal Classification in particular, and its relationships to other systems. The conference programme will highlight many ways in which classification use can be improved. Attention will be paid to the applications of classification schemes, in supporting multilingual access, user-friendly representations of classification in resource discovery and semantic searching expansion and classification application across distributed systems. Papers are now invited from classification researchers and practitioners, as well as information systems managers on the following topics: 1. classification and semantic technologies 2. classification in supporting information integration 3. verbal and multilingual access to classification 4. classification authority control and library systems 5. visual representations/interface to classification 6. experiences with classification outside the traditional library environment Contributions may include conference papers and posters. To read more about the conference and its theme and to submit your abstract, please go to the conference website: http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/index.htm. Contributions will be reviewed by the Programme Committee consisting of an international panel of experts. All papers will be made available in an open e-print archive and linked to from the UDCC website. Selected papers will be published in the "Extensions and Corrections to the UDC", 31 (2009). IMPORTANT DATES: 01 Feb 2009 Abstract submission deadline 01 Apr 2009 Notification of acceptance 31 Jul 2009 Full papers/posters submission CONTACT: [log in to unmask] ORGANIZER: The seminar is organized by the UDC Consortium (UDCC) and hosted by The National library of The Netherlands. UDCC is a non-profit organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) and supports its use and development. ===========================END==============================