=== Early Bird Registration ===
The International UDC Seminar entitled
"Classification & Authority Control:
Expanding Resource Discovery" will take
place in The National Library of Portugal in
Lisbon, on 29-30 October 2015.
Conference website:
http://seminar.udcc.org/2015.
Contact:
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Linked data practices and techniques have
opened new possibilities in exploiting
controlled vocabularies and improving
resource discovery. Authority data held in
library systems often includes
classification schemes. These knowledge
structures now have the potential for being
shared across the linked data environment.
The objective of this conference is to
explore such potential, expanding the value
and use of classification as an authority
controlled vocabulary, from a local
perspective to the global environment.
The conference will be opened by Emer. 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, Maria Ines
Cordeiro, Koraljka Golub, Claudio Gnoli.
To learn more about conference programme and
to register go to the conference website
http://seminar.udcc.org/2015
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)
About the organizer: Classification &
Authority Control is the fifth biennial
conference in a series of International 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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