Tuesday 5 May 2009

Registration open


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 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.