Tag Archives: Classification

EDUG presentations

Presentations given at Building the future of DDC: Translations, technology and transition 2003-2013 are available online. The symposium  took place at the National Library of Norway, Oslo, Norway in April 2013, in association with the annual meeting of the European DDC Users Group (EDUG).

The web page provides links to most of the presentations from the seven seminars held since the inaugural meeting of EDUG at the Swiss National Library, Bern, Switzerland in 2007. There are over 50 presentations on various aspects of the DDC, available in a mix of ppt and pdf formats, providing a rich set of resources about development of the classification in an international framework.

International UDC Seminar 2013

The International UDC Seminar 2013 entitled Classification &  Visualization: Interfaces to Knowledge will take place 24-25 October in
the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek), The Hague. The objective of this conference is to explore cutting edge advances and techniques in the visualization of knowledge across various fields of application and their potential impact on developments in the more main stream bibliographic and documentary classifications.

Early bird registration closes on 30 June. The registration fee covers lunches, refreshments, reception and the conference proceedings book. More information is available on the Conference website: http://seminar.udcc.org/2013.

Submit to the Luxemburg Conference on Data Ananlysis until February 28

The Workshop on Library and Information Science solicits contributions on the role of classification and data analysis in this domain. Topics in this area include but are not limited to: Classification and subject indexing in the context of catalogs and resource discovery systems; Methods, approaches and applications in subject indexing, classification and data analysis in different countries; Open access to classification systems: How can we provide a sustainable classification infrastructure?; Linked (subject) data (e.g. faceted classification and linked data architectures: A happy alignment?); Classification, subject indexing and the semantic web (e.g. taxonomies and semantic web ontologies: How closely are they related to each other?); Automatic and manual methods in classification and subject indexing (e.g. mappings, concordances, heuristics); Subject retrieval in multilingual, multicultural environments; Serendipity in library collections and digital libraries

Further information at http://gfkl2013.lu/