Thursday 14 April 2011

Programme announcement - Classification & Ontology Conference


Classification and Ontology UDC International Seminar 2011
International UDC Seminar 2011
The Hague, 19-20 September

We are pleased to announce that the "Classification and Ontology" programme is available on the conference website.

The conference focuses on knowledge classification systems and their role in the development of the Semantic Web, bringing together stakeholders from the web ontology and knowledge organization fields.

The conference opens with a keynote address by Prof. Patrick Hayes, who participated in the W3C Working Groups responsible for the RDF, OWL and SPARQL standards and has been a key player in the Semantic Web initiative.

The programme that follows has an outstanding selection of speakers from the domains of web technology, ontology, knowledge organization and bibliographic classification: Dan Brickley, Guus Schreiber, Thomas Baker, Dagobert Soergel, Roberto Poli, Ingetraut Dahlberg, Barbara Kwasnik, Rebecca Green, etc.

The two-day conference will take place in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. The programme includes 21 talks organized into seven sessions:

See the full programme, accompanied by abstracts and speakers biographies.

We look forward to seeing you in September.