The June 2009 issue of the Classification and Indexing Section Newsletter is now available at
http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/newsletter-1.
The contents include:
A Few Words from the Chair
Greetings from the Information Coordinator
Section Activities, WLIC Milan 2009
Progress on FRSAR
Reports
Dewey Decimal Classification News
Dewey - Let's Do It!
European Dewey Users' Group (EDUG)
LCSH-ES Update
Open Shelves Classification Project
UDC News
News from: Czechia, Estonia, France, Iceland, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States
Other News:
ISKO conference: Rome 2010
Mapping Library Classification Systems
UDC Discussion List en español
International UDC Seminar 2009
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
June 2009 Classification and Indexing Section Newsletter
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
UDC Update Session at IFLA 2009
UDC Update Session at World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly "Libraries create futures: Building on cultural heritage", 23-27 August 2009, Milan, Italy - will take place on Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 12:00-13.00 in Room Turquoise 2.
Colleagues attending IFLA in Milan are welcome to attend.
Colleagues attending IFLA in Milan are welcome to attend.
Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Registration open
CLASSIFICATION AT A CROSSROADS:
Mutliple Directions to Usability
International UDC Seminar 2009
29-30 October 2009, The Hague
Mutliple Directions to Usability
International UDC Seminar 2009
29-30 October 2009, The Hague
VENUE: Koninklijke Bibliotheek
URL: http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/index.htm
FEE: €110 (student discount: €90)
The conference programme includes a selection of over twenty papers representing classification research in 14 countries. Speakers will address the potential of classification, in supporting information organization, management and resource discovery in the networked environment and will explore solutions for better subject access control and vocabulary sharing services.
Two eminent keynote speakers will address the conference: Prof. Dagobert Soergel, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland (USA) and Dan Brickley, an advocate and developer of W3C Semantic Web technologies (UK).
The conference is the second in a series of International UDC Seminars organized by the UDC Consortium and hosted by The National Library of The Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek). The UDCC is a self-funded, non-commercial organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) and supports its use and development.
To take advantage of the early bird discount, you can register and pay online at the conference website.
Wednesday, 8 April 2009
Simple Knowledge Organization System - Candidate Recommendation
From Alistair Miles and Antoine Isaac on behalf of the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group ...
The W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group is pleased to announce the publication of a Candidate Recommendation for the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) Reference:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-skos-reference-20090317/
A new Working Draft of the accompanying SKOS Primer has also been
published:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-skos-primer-20090317/
The Working Group now *calls for implementations.*
We would like to hear of any vocabulary (thesaurus, classification system, subject heading system, taxonomy or other KOS) or mapping between vocabularies that has been published in the Web as machine-readable data using SKOS, and/or has been made available via
programmatic services using SKOS.
We would also like to hear of any software that has the capability to read and/or write SKOS data, and/or can check whether a given SKOS dataset is consistent with the SKOS data model.
If you would like to notify us of a vocabulary, vocabulary mapping, and/or software as a SKOS implementation, *please send an email to public-swd-wg@w3.org before 30 April 2009*, providing the information described below. Please also begin the subject line with "SKOS
Implementation:".
== Vocabulary Implementations ==
If you are notifying us of one or more vocabularies or vocabulary
mappings as an implementation, please provide *at least* the following
information:
* vocabulary title(s) (e.g. Library of Congress Subject Headings)
* name of person and/or organisation responsible for the implementation
* a list of the SKOS constructs used (e.g. skos:Concept, skos:ConceptScheme, skos:inScheme, skos:broader, skos:prefLabel, skos:closeMatch ... etc.)
* URL(s) where the published SKOS data may be obtained, if the data are publicly available
We would also welcome any further information you care to provide, however this is *not mandatory*. For example, we would be interested to know the scope and size of the vocabulary, what it is primarily used for, in what languages the vocabulary is provided, any other URLs describing the vocabulary or providing further information.
== Software Implementations ==
If you are notifying us of software as an implementation, please provide *at least* the following information:
* name of the software (e.g. SKOSEd)
* name of person and/or organisation responsible for the implementation
* URLs for software home page and/or download location if publicly downloadable
* can the software read SKOS data?
* can the software write SKOS data?
* can the software check consistency of SKOS data with respect to the SKOS data model?
For more information on what we mean by reading, writing or checking SKOS data, see:
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/SKOSImplementationReport
We would also welcome any further information you care to provide, however this is *not mandatory*. For example, we would be interested in the main purpose and functionality of the software, the programming language and/or software frameworks used, details of the SKOS
constructs which are supported, any other URLs describing the software or providing further information.
The W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group is pleased to announce the publication of a Candidate Recommendation for the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) Reference:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-skos-reference-20090317/
A new Working Draft of the accompanying SKOS Primer has also been
published:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-skos-primer-20090317/
The Working Group now *calls for implementations.*
We would like to hear of any vocabulary (thesaurus, classification system, subject heading system, taxonomy or other KOS) or mapping between vocabularies that has been published in the Web as machine-readable data using SKOS, and/or has been made available via
programmatic services using SKOS.
We would also like to hear of any software that has the capability to read and/or write SKOS data, and/or can check whether a given SKOS dataset is consistent with the SKOS data model.
If you would like to notify us of a vocabulary, vocabulary mapping, and/or software as a SKOS implementation, *please send an email to public-swd-wg@w3.org before 30 April 2009*, providing the information described below. Please also begin the subject line with "SKOS
Implementation:".
== Vocabulary Implementations ==
If you are notifying us of one or more vocabularies or vocabulary
mappings as an implementation, please provide *at least* the following
information:
* vocabulary title(s) (e.g. Library of Congress Subject Headings)
* name of person and/or organisation responsible for the implementation
* a list of the SKOS constructs used (e.g. skos:Concept, skos:ConceptScheme, skos:inScheme, skos:broader, skos:prefLabel, skos:closeMatch ... etc.)
* URL(s) where the published SKOS data may be obtained, if the data are publicly available
We would also welcome any further information you care to provide, however this is *not mandatory*. For example, we would be interested to know the scope and size of the vocabulary, what it is primarily used for, in what languages the vocabulary is provided, any other URLs describing the vocabulary or providing further information.
== Software Implementations ==
If you are notifying us of software as an implementation, please provide *at least* the following information:
* name of the software (e.g. SKOSEd)
* name of person and/or organisation responsible for the implementation
* URLs for software home page and/or download location if publicly downloadable
* can the software read SKOS data?
* can the software write SKOS data?
* can the software check consistency of SKOS data with respect to the SKOS data model?
For more information on what we mean by reading, writing or checking SKOS data, see:
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/SKOSImplementationReport
We would also welcome any further information you care to provide, however this is *not mandatory*. For example, we would be interested in the main purpose and functionality of the software, the programming language and/or software frameworks used, details of the SKOS
constructs which are supported, any other URLs describing the software or providing further information.
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Moscow: 4th Seminar on UDC organized by VINITI
The 4th in the series of VINITI's seminars on UDC methods "The conceptual approach to describing resources in pure sciences using Universal Decimal Classification" will take place on 8-10 April 2009.
Russian speaking users can find more information about this seminar at http://forum.udcc.ru/
About VINITI:
Vserossiisky Institut Nauchnoi i Tekhnicheskoi Informatsii (VINITI) - All-Russian Scientific and Technical Information Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences is the leading information centre in Russia and CIS.
VINITI gathers and processes information from natural sciences and technology from 130 countries in 66 languages and prepares about one million records per year, presenting them both as printed publications and computer-readable databases.
The unique feature of VINITI bibliographic service is that it collects, creates abstracts, stores and make available significant amount of scientific and technical materials that are not published (deposited manuscripts, dissertations, etc).
VINITI also develops tools and software for advanced information processing: search engines, automatic translation systems, intellectual indexing and abstracting systems, etc. As the owner of UDC data in Russian language, VINITI is the only publisher within the UDC Consortium that still maintains and publishes full edition of the UDC (over 200,000 records).
Russian speaking users can find more information about this seminar at http://forum.udcc.ru/
About VINITI:
Vserossiisky Institut Nauchnoi i Tekhnicheskoi Informatsii (VINITI) - All-Russian Scientific and Technical Information Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences is the leading information centre in Russia and CIS.
VINITI gathers and processes information from natural sciences and technology from 130 countries in 66 languages and prepares about one million records per year, presenting them both as printed publications and computer-readable databases.
The unique feature of VINITI bibliographic service is that it collects, creates abstracts, stores and make available significant amount of scientific and technical materials that are not published (deposited manuscripts, dissertations, etc).
VINITI also develops tools and software for advanced information processing: search engines, automatic translation systems, intellectual indexing and abstracting systems, etc. As the owner of UDC data in Russian language, VINITI is the only publisher within the UDC Consortium that still maintains and publishes full edition of the UDC (over 200,000 records).
Wednesday, 1 April 2009
UDC Discussion List in Spanish
A Spanish UDC discussion list cdu-es is now opened.
Spanish speaking colleagues using or interested in the Universal Decimal Classification can join the list at http://lists.udcc.org/mailman/listinfo/cdu-es
CDU-ES is a public mailing list for users and researchers of the Universal Decimal Classification in Spanish speaking countries. It is an open list to share information and discuss practical UDC questions regardless of the field of its application: libraries, museum, archives, Internet gateways or metadata.
Spanish speaking colleagues using or interested in the Universal Decimal Classification can join the list at http://lists.udcc.org/mailman/listinfo/cdu-es
CDU-ES is a public mailing list for users and researchers of the Universal Decimal Classification in Spanish speaking countries. It is an open list to share information and discuss practical UDC questions regardless of the field of its application: libraries, museum, archives, Internet gateways or metadata.
Sunday, 29 March 2009
Online UDC courses - in Spanish and Swedish
Of interest to Spanish and Swedish speaking colleagues....
Miguel Benito, the driving force behind and the editor of the Swedish/Spanish/Finish UDC schedules online has now also created an online UDC and Dewey course using Moodle.
This is certainly a very welcome development. I wonder, however, how do potential participants find out about the content and course programme, goals, duration and targeted audience prior to requesting login/pw?
I am also looking forward to hear from Benito whether he finds Moodle a suitable course management system for this kind of training.
Miguel Benito, the driving force behind and the editor of the Swedish/Spanish/Finish UDC schedules online has now also created an online UDC and Dewey course using Moodle.
This is certainly a very welcome development. I wonder, however, how do potential participants find out about the content and course programme, goals, duration and targeted audience prior to requesting login/pw?
I am also looking forward to hear from Benito whether he finds Moodle a suitable course management system for this kind of training.
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