=== 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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