tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87546262922396044502012-01-22T12:00:06.998ZThe Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is the world's foremost multilingual classification scheme for all fields of knowledge, a sophisticated indexing and retrieval tool. UDC is used in bibliographic services, documentation centres and libraries in around 130 countries world-wide and has been published in whole or in part in over 40 different languages.Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-81642133575777204782012-01-06T13:04:00.010Z2012-01-06T13:34:36.081Z

The latest issue of the Extensions and Corrections to the UDC No. 32 (2010) contains a number of articles, bibliography of UDC editions and UDC related publications in 2010, two proposals for UDC changes: corrections and the extensions of Table 1c - =4  Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, Congo-Kordofanian, Khoisan languages  and proposal for over 800 new entries under 512.7 Commutative algebra and

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Best wishes for Christmas to everyone from the UDC team. We look forward to sharing a prosperous and productive 2012!

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Classification & Ontology: Formal Approaches and Access to KnowledgeThe International UDC Seminar 2011 took place on 19-20 September in The Hague and was attended by 141 delegates from 30 countries from Europe, Asia, North America, South America and Australia.The keynote address by Patrick Hayes kick-started a two-day programme consisting of 21 talks and two poster presentations. Following the

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Proceedings of the International UDC Seminar 2011 are published by Ergon Verlag. Classification and ontology: formal approaches and access to knowledge: proceedings of the International UDC Seminar, 19-20 September 2011, The Hague, The Netherlands. Edited by Aida Slavic and Edgardo Civallero. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2011. 328 pages. ISBN: 978-3-89913-865-8. The book will be distributed in

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Colleagues working with the UDC and attending 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly in Puerto Rico are invited to attend the annual UDC UPDATE MEETING Thursday, 18 August 13:15-14:15 Room 102A Members of the UDC Editorial team and UDC Consortium (UDCC) will provide an update on current developments, new translations, editions and services. The meeting will provide an opportunity to exchange

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CLASSIFICATION AND ONTOLOGY: FORMAL APPROACHES AND ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE 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

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UDC Summary (udcS) translations continue with great intensity, using our online, web-based tool and multilingual spreadsheets for offline work. We now have 40 languages online in over 10 different scripts: Armenian, Basque, Bengali, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian,

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Classification & Ontology: Formal Approaches and Access to Knowledge The Hague, 19-20 September 2011 Following the success of the 2009 conference we are very pleased to announce the next in the series of biennial conferences devoted to the advancement of bibliographic classification research, organized by the UDC Consortium and hosted by Koninklijke Bibliotheek. The difference between

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An interesting read about sharing and linking data on Dan Brickley's blog "danbri’s foaf stories: the web, the world, us, you and them" explaining some of the ideas behind the NoTube 'semantic television' project. Snippets: "Lonclass is one of the BBC’s in-house classification systems – the “London classification”. I’ve had the privilege of investigating Lonclass within the NoTube project. It’s

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Colleagues who are going to be at 76th IFLA General Conference and Assembly "Open access to knowledge - promoting sustainable progress" in Gothenburg (Sweden) are cordially invited to join us at our traditional UDC Update Session on Friday 13 August 2010, 13:00-14.00, Room R2.

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-12192969544233872572010-03-28T23:53:00.017+01:002011-08-15T13:19:10.829+01:00

Last week, I received an email from Yulia Skora (Ukraine) who was interested in the availability of the mapping between UDC Summary and the Summary of the Russian universal classification LBC (BBK - Библиотечно-библиографическая классификация in English: Library Bibliographic Classification) Summary. It reminded me of yet another challenging area of work. When responding to Yulia I realised that

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-39264422688096141162010-03-28T21:24:00.013+01:002011-08-15T13:27:05.314+01:00

The UDC Summary translation team had a busy week. We have uploaded the top classes for Estonian and Armenian languages, just a day after we uploaded the top classes for Hindi and over 800 classes of Norwegian that we managed to extract from TEKORD data (courtesy of Rurik Greenal). We now have 21 languages online and over 30 volunteers working on translations. Our online translation tool is

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This weekend we uploaded over 2000 UDC classes in the Ukranian language into the UDC Summary. This is the 17th language so far. Thanks to help from the publishers and editors of national editions and editors of the UDC Summary, we managed to import almost the complete set of UDC numbers that we needed for many languages. Our online translator seems to do its job and is being expanded with

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The latest issue of the Classification & Indexing Section Newsletter (IFLA) contains a short report from the UDC Seminar 2009 "Classification at a Crossroad: multiple directions to usability". The issue also contain a short text about the multilingual UDC Summary project.

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The UDC Summary of around 2,000 classes has been online since October 2009 and can now be browsed in 13 languages here (select language in the drop down menu top). The UDC summary is fully aligned with the UDC MRF 2009 which is going to be released in the following months. This set is made available for free use under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 license (CC-BY-SA). BSI,

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The International UDC Seminar 2009 entitled "Classification at a Crossroads: multiple directions to usability" took place in The Hague on 29-30 October 2009. The conference was very successful in bringing together speakers and audience from different communities interested in, and working with, classification schemes. There were 135 delegates in attendance from 32 countries and from various kinds

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-26578213553457861372009-10-12T10:38:00.012+01:002011-08-16T18:38:13.255+01:00

International UDC Seminar Classification at a Crossroad: Multiple Directions to Usability The Hague, 29-30 October 2009. The final Programme with abstracts and speakers' biographies containing a selection of 22 talks is now available. This conference will cover a variety of topics: classification of web resources, automatic classification, relationships between thesaurus and classification,

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-38247324851840826032009-10-03T16:00:00.008+01:002011-08-16T18:41:03.618+01:00

Colleagues doing research on the history of knowledge organization at the beginning of 20th century, including seminal work in the field of documentation by Paul Otlet and Henry Lafontaine, may be interested in the call for papers for the following event: Colloquium: Transcending Boundaries in Europe in the Period of the Belle Epoque: Organizing Knowledge, Mobilizing Networks, and Effecting

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-15697846971884328262009-09-26T16:25:00.005+01:002011-08-17T10:07:00.389+01:00

We have just received an interesting proposal for the extension of the UDC class 004 Computer science by Kunwar P Singh and Manisha Singh (Department of Library and Information Sceince, University of Delhi) - which we are looking forward to working on. We have been annually updating class 004 ever since its major revision and publication in 1994, adding a couple of the most urgently needed

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-84322301873579061382009-09-20T11:44:00.010+01:002011-08-17T10:15:37.361+01:00

Articles published in the "Extensions & Corrections to the UDC" journal, issue 30 (2008) are now available in DLIST: McIlwaine, Ia C. & Williamson, Nancy (2008) Medicine and the UDC: the process of restructuring Class 61. Extensions and Corrections to the UDC 30 : pp. 9-16.Gnoli, Claudio; Mazzocchi, Fulvio & Slavic, Aida (2008) The UDC Philosophy revision project. Extensions and Corrections to

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Earlier this year (see our blog item philosophy) we have announced the start of the work on the revision of class 1 Philosophy by Italian working group on UDC (see discussion list Italia - Gruppo di lavoro italiano sulla Universal Decimal Classification). Claudio Gnoli has now published the report on the work done so far at http://italia.udcc.org/report1.html

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-78062077401901114592009-07-18T13:06:00.002+01:002011-08-17T10:19:11.135+01:00

UDC is now on Twitter. You can follow us at http://twitter.com/UDCC

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-68670077672508125502009-06-16T15:03:00.002+01:002011-08-17T10:20:37.213+01:00

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

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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.

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-233374631146938812009-05-05T17:17:00.011+01:002011-08-17T10:30:19.991+01:00

CLASSIFICATION AT A CROSSROADS Multiple 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

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-91925492929701088512009-04-08T12:36:00.005+01:002011-08-17T10:34:28.863+01:00

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

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-49200088892917935482009-04-07T00:08:00.008+01:002011-08-17T10:35:59.756+01:00

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

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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

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-50187187315814361052009-03-29T17:15:00.007+01:002011-08-17T10:38:53.443+01:00

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

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-32350699395938675322009-03-28T18:05:00.013Z2011-08-17T10:40:47.477+01:00

In February 2009, a new UDC licence scheme and new prices have been approved by the UDC Consortium. There are two main categories of licences: publishing and licences for UDC MRF use. For many existing and prospective UDC users it is important to understand that they do not need licence if they apply UDC schedule content for information and knowledge organization from a copy of a

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-38174148483033744542009-03-22T22:28:00.004Z2011-08-17T10:42:06.757+01:00

danbri wrote (22/03/2009) "How are things going with SKOSification? If some SKOS extensions (SKOS is designed to be independently extended) are needed to do justice to UDC, it would be great to begin that discussion... particularly as SKOS has just entered "candidate recommendation" stage at W3C - http://www.w3.org/News/2009#item35" Dan, this is certainly on our current agenda. We thought it

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-1751135018934687572009-03-19T11:56:00.009Z2011-08-17T10:44:01.576+01:00

In January 2009 Claudio Gnoli and Fulvio Mazzochi formed a UDC Italian working group. In the next two years the group will be looking into the UDC class 1 Philosophy. The study group will be able to use the contributions of a seminar on the very topic of the classification of philosophy, recently organized at the University of Padua Department of Philosophy by Cristiana Bettella of ISKO Italy.

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-49755959136293597642008-10-30T16:51:00.007Z2011-08-17T10:47:26.320+01:00

Following the success of the first International Seminar on UDC, the second in a series of biennial conferences entitled Classification at a Crossroads: Multiple Directions to Usability will take place on 29-30 October 2009 in the UDC headquarters at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague. The 2009 Seminar aims at exploring how new developments in information standards and technology influence

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-84715655110817482572008-10-01T18:33:00.011+01:002011-08-17T10:55:30.183+01:00

Recent discussion on the udc-forum discussion list pointed to the fact that we do need a concept of website/webpage as a simple form number in UDC Table Id - Common Auxiliaries of Form. The specific question was whether it was satisfactory to denote 'webpage' with a form number for digital documents with alphabetical extensions for HTML: (0.034.2HTML) Webpage and whether we can class e.g.

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-13533007970545825862008-09-30T10:02:00.011+01:002011-08-17T10:59:23.506+01:00

This is in relation with Dan's comment the other day. This made me think that it may be good to make UDC 1000 numbers summary available as exports for various kind of interfaces and experiments. He mentioned Library of Congress Subject Headings presented as linked-date using SKOS vocabulary. I think it was Ed Summers who did this interesting application. Anyway I have hardly been at any

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-60718119977841722302008-09-23T12:40:00.006+01:002011-08-17T10:58:44.370+01:00

The Swedish abridged edition of the UDC: "UNIVERSELLA DECIMALKLASSIFIKATIONEN: SVENSK ELEKTRONISK UTGÅVA", containing over 6,000 classes, has been available on the Web for free since 2001. The edition was translated, prepared and maintained by Miguel Benito and his assistants/students from the Library School in Boras (Högskolan i Borås), Sweden. The UDC database has now been moved to a new

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-91491138000337668212008-07-08T15:11:00.009+01:002011-08-17T11:03:31.612+01:00

Proceedings of the UDC Seminar 2007 "Information Access for the Global Community", 4-5 June 2007, The Hague were published as an Annex in the Extensions and Corrections to the UDC, 29 (2007). All articles are now available in the dLIST open archive. You can download the entire Annex from the above address or you can access and download individual articles (pdf format). McIlwaine, I. C. Summary

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-27760751640814742322008-07-06T14:47:00.004+01:002011-08-17T11:05:13.341+01:00

CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Conference entitled "Classification and subject retrieval in the 21st century: you can't make jelly without a mould" will take place at the The University of Strathclyde on 3 - 5 September 2008 The CIG conference 2008 web pages are now available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/CIG/2008/conf-glasgow/. Online booking is now open. 135 years after Melvil

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-71686098436109088692008-07-03T17:28:00.007+01:002011-08-17T11:06:34.890+01:00

The Classification & Indexing Section Newsletter for June features the Section's programme at IFLA 2008 conference in Quebec entitled "Classification and Indexing Without Language Borders". This issue also provides a brief information about current work on improving subject access in the Czech National Library Catalogue. We also read that VINITI (All-Russian Institute of SciTech Information)

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-27249352573122602422008-02-03T21:42:00.001Z2011-08-17T11:07:46.006+01:00

This is just to inform that the bibliography of last reported UDC translations and editions is now updated and can be accessed from http://www.udcc.org/bibliography.htm. Although I have a couple of references still in preparation I think many will find this useful as it is. I created an overview of various editions by year in a single table for all 39 languages (http://www.udcc.org/files/

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-53069609802822937202008-02-03T21:05:00.002Z2011-08-17T11:08:51.143+01:00

The new 29 (2007) issue of the Extensions and Corrections to the UDC has now been published. The Annex of the issue (pages 159-321) contains Proceedings of the International Seminar “Information Access for the Global Community”, 4-5 June 2007. See the table of contents and ordering information.

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-67618500511463727232007-10-18T10:57:00.001+01:002011-08-17T11:11:24.325+01:00

It has been long felt that there is a need to revise classes related to library and information science. But because there were so many classes in urgent need of revision in the UDC, and resources were scarce, this task is still outstanding. At the June 2007 UDC Seminar it was mentioned that we will be looking into revising the field of library and information science very soon and although

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-76074389978660159642007-09-29T11:08:00.001+01:002011-08-17T11:13:17.917+01:00

At the UDC seminar 2007 in The Hague, MagnaView presented an innovative visual application which gives you the possibility to view the UDC Master Reference File in novel ways, and to interact with it visually. From MagnaView UDC Viewer brochure: "UDC Viewer offers you an instant and visual access to the complete content of the Master Reference File (MRF), i.e. to all records and all tags.

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-70707184911958021642007-09-09T19:11:00.001+01:002011-08-17T11:14:34.352+01:00

A UDC Update meeting at the 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council in Durban - South Africa, took place on Monday 20 August 2007 for an informal exchange of information about UDCC and the current work on UDC. See the UDC Update 2007 report. The UDC editor in chief Maria Ines Cordeiro also participated in the 5th Annual Dewey Translators Meeting, on 21 August 2007, giving a brief update on the

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-31087448729929772032007-07-27T16:54:00.001+01:002011-08-17T11:15:30.780+01:00

New contact e-mail for UDC Consortium is now mail (at) udcc (dot) org. If you need to contact some of the members of the UDCC or UDC Editorial Team directly you will find contact details at UDCC members web page.

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-7275712133074325442007-07-27T13:59:00.001+01:002011-08-17T11:16:20.431+01:00

7th International Conference on Information Society, Intelligent Information Processing, Information Technologies (STI-2007) will be held on 24-26 October in Moscow. The conference is dedicated to the 55th anniversary of VINITI (All-Russian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information). The main objective of the conference are trends and challenges in the information infrastructure of

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-65168073105223480382007-07-15T17:46:00.001+01:002011-08-17T11:17:35.262+01:00

The editor in chief of the UDC - Maria Ines Cordeiro invites you to the: UDC UPDATE at the 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council "Libraries for the future: Progress, Development and Partnerships" - Durban, South Africa. The meeting will be held on Monday 20 August, 13.00-14.00h, Room 12ab The UDC UPDATE is an informal meeting to share general information and latest news about the Universal

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-66099038885929624542007-07-03T03:20:00.002+01:002011-08-17T11:19:07.858+01:00

At the UDC Seminar in June 2007, MagnaView, a Dutch company, announced that a special UDC-version of their solution for visual browsing of UDC would be released on 1st July. MagnaView has decided to postpone this release until 1st September 2007 to further improve this version. Erik Jan van der Linden's presentation "Visual Universal Decimal Classification?" and a summary of his talk can be

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-84979970209477755952007-07-03T02:22:00.001+01:002011-08-17T11:19:58.585+01:00

Presentations and paper abstracts - from the UDC Seminar that took place on 4-5 June 2007 at the UDC Headquarters in The Hague are now linked and available for download from the Seminar's Programme.

Aida Slavicnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-6783312151146056292007-06-27T17:01:00.002+01:002011-08-17T11:21:28.537+01:00

The June newsletter for the Classification and Indexing section is now available. Table of Content: IFLA 2007 DurbanUDC NewsDDC NewsInternational Developments in Classification and IndexingTEL-ME-MOR/M-CASTISKO UK

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Professor Helmut Emil Richard Arntz (1912-2007) died on 31 May 2007. Professor Arntz held the posts of vice-president (1965-1971) and president of the FID (1972-1980). He was a founding member of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Dokumentation of which he was the president 1962-1972. Professor Arntz worked on the Universal Decimal Classification since 1952. He was the chair of the FID/Central

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A two day International Seminar on the UDC, organized by UDC Consortium, was held at the UDC Headquarters in the The Hague 4-5 June 2007. The event was entitled "Information Access for the Global community" and its aim was to explore the latest developments and applications of the Universal Decimal Classification. The Seminar brought together UDC publishers, editors of the scheme and UDC users

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