Category Archives: Universal Decimal Classification (UDC)

Classification & Indexing Section Newsletter June 2013

The Classification & Indexing Newsletter June 2014 is now available from the C&I website.  Contents include information about WLIC 2014 in Lyon, the FRBR review group, the IFLA Namespaces Technical Group, news and updates from UDC, DDC and from libraries around the world

 

UDC conference presentations available

PDF versions of the slides and MP3 versions of the presentations slides and talks from the International UDC Seminar 2013 – “Classification and Visualization”are now available. The posters from the conference are also freely available online

The conference proceedings are published by Ergon Verlag as Classification and visualization: interfaces to knowledge.

The conference took place in Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, The Netherlands, on 24-25 October 2013, with 115 delegates from 24 countries, and was devoted to exploring 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.  The keynote address was delivered by Prof. W. Boyd Rayward.

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.

Classification & Indexing Section Newsletter

Issue number 46 (December 2012) of the Cataloguing & Indexing Section Newsletter has been published. Contents include reports from WLIC 2012 in Helsinki and the IFLA Namespaces Technical Group, a look forward to WLIC 2013 in Singaport, and news and updates from UDC, DDC, and the Library of Congress.

UDC seminar 2013

The next International UDC Seminar entitled “Classification & Visualization: Interfaces to Knowledge” will take place in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, 24-25 October 2013. The conference will explore the cutting edge 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. The call for papers is open; more details can be found on the UDC Seminar 2013 website.