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Call for papers – WLIC 2016 Open Session

The theme for the Classification & Indexing Section’s Open Session at WLIC 2016 is:

“Reclaiming subject access to indigenous knowledge”

The Classification & Indexing Section will be hosting an open session during the 2016 conference in Columbus, Ohio. We are seeking papers that highlight innovative and effective ways of applying subject access to indigenous knowledge. The challenges involved affect not only libraries, but also archives, museums and other cultural institutions.

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

  • Specialized metadata systems and bibliographic data
  • Ontologies and schemas
  • Obstacles to reliable subject access
  • Socio-political considerations in subject access
  • Applications of linked open data and the semantic web
  • Structuring subject access to reflect indigenous cultures
  • Memory, identity and choices of vocabulary

Deadline for submitting an abstract is 12 February.

More information is available at the  WLIC 2016 website

IFLA 2015 in Cape Town

2015 was an election year at IFLA sections and the Classification & Indexing Section has both outgoing and new members.

The Classification & Indexing Sections website is updated with information about current members.

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Ingoing and outgoing members at our meeting in Cape Town

 

Almost 100 people attended our Open Session program, titled “Dynamic Subject Access: Evolution and Transformation”.

1. Keynote: Managing Derived Entities – Thom Hickey (OCLC, United States)

2. The Next Step – Makeover from Accessible Collections to Attractive Collections – Malarvele Ilangovan (National Library Board, Singapore, Singapore) (Paper in English and Spanish)

3. Facilitating Access to Cultural Content in Czechia: INTERMI Project and National Authority Files – Marie Balikova (National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic) ((Paper in English, Russian and Spanish)

4. Subject Metadata Development and Awareness for Digital Resources in University of Uyo Library, Nigeria – Eno J. Ottong (University of Uyo, Nigeria) (Paper in English and Spanish)

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Felicia Edu-Uwem Etim and Eno J. Ottong from Uyo University Library in Nigeria

 

 

The Classification & Indexing Section Open Session in Cape Town 2015

The Classification & Indexing Section has an interesting Open Session programme in Cape Town. – Dynamic Subject Access: Evolution and Transformation.
The session (148) will take place from 16:00-18:00 on August 18th in Auditorium 2 of the conference centre and will be chaired by Harriet Aagaard. Papers to be presented:

1. Keynote: Managing Derived Entities – Thom Hickey (OCLC, United States)

2. The Next Step – Makeover from Accessible Collections to Attractive Collections – Malarvele Ilangovan (National Library Board, Singapore, Singapore)

3. Facilitating Access to Cultural Content in Czechia: INTERMI Project and National Authority Files – Marie Balikova (National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic)

4. Subject Metadata Development and Awareness for Digital Resources in University of Uyo Library, Nigeria – Eno J. Ottong (University of Uyo, Nigeria)

Presented papers are available at IFLA library. You find the original papers in English, as well as translations into Spanish. Marie Balikova’s paper is also translated into Russian. We hope to get all papers translated into French in time for the congress.

Program for IFLA WLIC 2015

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New – IFLA Metadata Newsletter vol. 1 June 2015

During last year’s WLIC in Lyon there was a workshop on how sections may work together. One way of cooperating is of course through joint open sessions. Another suggestion (first raised at Bibliography´s SCI) is a joint newsletter. The officers of the sections focusing on universal bibliographic control found this idea very interesting and worth investigating. It was therefore decided that the newsletter editors of each section should study the feasibility of a joint communication channel, be it newsletter, blog or something else.

Rather than merely doing a feasibility study, the newsletter editors decided to join forces and publish a common newsletter. The result of our work is the first issue of the IFLA Metadata Newsletter. At this year’s WLIC, the Bibliography, Cataloguing and Classification & Indexing sections will discuss whether the IFLA Metadata Newsletter should replace our present communication channels.

Please give us feedback so we can have a fruitful discussion over this topic at the WLIC in Cape Town!

IFLA Metadata Newsletter vol. 1

Ifla metadata newsletter

 

Call for papers – IFLA 2015 in Cape Town

The theme for the Classification & Indexing Section’s Open Session at WLIC 2015 is:

“Dynamic Subject Access: Evolution and Transformation?”

The Classification & Indexing Sections will be organizing an open session during the 2015 conference in Cape Town. We are seeking papers addressing new and interesting ways of supplying subject access. Subject access tools and services are not limited to libraries only: important developments are (also) happening elsewhere. We would like to explore novel ways of exposing library subject metadata to other communities and, on the other hand, libraries using subject access tools developed by others. Topics include:

  • big data & subject access
  • use and reuse of subject metadata and tools
  • the chain of supply in the creation of subject metadata
  • providing form/genre access in addition to subject access

All proposals must be in by 6 February 2015.
More information is found on the WLIC 2015 website for the Classification & Indexing Section’s

Call for Papers for the Open Session in Cape Town 2015.

 

Free access to selected articles from Cataloging & Classification Quarterly until 31 October

There is still time to  read a selection of articles on RDA, Bibframe, Linked data, BISAC etc from the Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. The articles will be free until 31 October.

The September issue is about RDA, RDA around the world, available for subscribers. Guest editors: Marie-France Plassard and Gordon Dunsire.