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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/

Cycling for Libraries

– a pretty unique “unconference” for all librarians and librarylovers –

from Amsterdam to Brussels:   18.-26. June 2013

This year we are doing about 400km and visit Amsterdam, The Hague, Delft, Gent and The European Parliament in Brussels. And each and every one of the the places in between 🙂

The idea of this professional event is to get out of our usual habitat in the libraries, offices and from auditoriums watching powerpoints all day long. Instead we are boldly looking for more engaging, productive, innovative, co-operative and humane ways to meet up with our colleagues.

And more fun too. The group of 100, international librarians from two dozen countries on their bicycles is quite a thrill!

Learn more at http://www.cyclingforlibraries.org (or ask me/us), and we’re on Twitter with hashtag #cyc4lib, on Facebook and thousands of photos Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/groups/cyc4lib/pool/. Or you can just google for it.

 

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.

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