=== 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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