=== 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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