tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87546262922396044502024-02-19T03:16:06.461+00:00Universal Decimal ClassificationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-25082282035860229272017-05-10T15:37:00.000+01:002017-05-11T14:16:02.440+01:00Programme available - International UDC Seminar 2017
The International UDC Seminar 2017 Faceted Classification Today: Theory, Technology and End Users will take place in London on 14-15 September 2017 at Wellcome Collection.
Seminar 2017 revisits faceted analytical theory as a method for (re)constructing modern analytico-synthetic classifications and explores potential fields of application for facet analysis in information organization and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-13962338742434310062016-12-23T17:24:00.001+00:002016-12-23T17:24:54.594+00:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-52692679864459877942016-12-04T22:44:00.000+00:002016-12-04T22:51:19.783+00:00CFP International UDC Seminar 2017 - Faceted Classification Today: Theory, Technology and End UsersInternational UDC Seminar 2017 "Faceted Classification Today: Theory, Technology and End Users" will take place in London on 14-15 September 2017.
The objective of the conference is to revisit faceted analytical theory as a method for (re)constructing modern classifications and indexing languages and the role analytico-synthetic classifications have had in resource discovery and retrieval, from Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-57115277798935393342015-08-31T21:53:00.004+01:002015-08-31T22:03:45.461+01:00Invitation for Registration: Classification & Authority controlThe International UDC Seminar entitled "Classification & Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery" will take place in The National Library of Portugal in Lisbon, on 29-30 October 2015.
Conference website: http://seminar.udcc.org/2015.
Contact: seminar2015@udcc.org
The objective of the conference is
to explore issues in managing classification vocabulary in and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-45197097845409491172015-02-04T20:28:00.000+00:002015-02-04T20:50:24.461+00:00International UDC Seminar 2015 "Classification and Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery" - CALL FOR PAPERS
DATE: 29-30 October 2015
VENUE: National Library of Portugal - Lisbon
WEBSITE: http://seminar.udcc.org/2015/
CONTACT: seminar2015@udcc.org
Linked data practices and techniques have opened new possibilities in exploiting controlled vocabularies and improving resource discovery. Authority data held in&Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-2332807475991167902014-08-17T21:20:00.000+01:002014-08-17T21:41:53.414+01:00IFLA General Conference 2014
If you happen to be in Lyon, please join us for our regular UDC Update session at the 2014 IFLA General Conference and Assembly.
Members of the UDC Editorial team will give a brief presentation on the current developments in the UDC, ongoing translation projects, forthcoming publications and events.
Monday, 18 August
12.45-13.45
Room St. Clair 3b
The UDC Update Newsletter is available Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-68904922523391903142014-02-10T22:33:00.000+00:002014-02-10T22:35:26.668+00:00Paul Otlet LectureCourtesy of W. B. Rayward:
Prof. W. Boyd Rayward and Prof. Eugene Garfield have endowed a
lectureship named for Paul Otlet Lecture at University of Illinois. The
first lecture entitled "When Was the Age of Information?" will be
delivered by Prof. Paul Duguid from School of Information
at the University of California, Berkeley) on 5. May 2014.
About the Otlet Lecture:
Paul Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-28432762400293008562014-02-05T10:59:00.001+00:002014-02-05T11:05:40.406+00:00Slovenian UDC Online - 3rd editionThe third online edition of the Slovenian UDC "Tretja elektronska izdaja UDCMRF 2011" was released in January 2014.
This online UDC tool was created by the National and University Library Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 2001, the second updated of the Slovenian translation was published in 2006, followed by the new translation release in 20014.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-60681854598138716162014-02-05T10:18:00.000+00:002014-02-05T10:23:42.788+00:00New Dutch abridged UDC editionA new Dutch abridged edition "Universele Decimale Classificatie:
beknopte nederlandse uitgave 2013", prepared by Dr. Gerhard J. A. Riesthuis was published by the UDC Consortium.
This
edition is based on the standard UDC abridged database, which includes
over 10,000 classes and is extended by the complete place subdivision
for the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname and the Caribbean Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-37976816566380121102013-09-22T11:45:00.000+01:002013-09-22T12:10:55.475+01:00UDC Online - a new service for users of the scheme
UDC Consortium has released a new service providing online access to the complete content of the UDC Master Reference File.
UDC Online is designed as a hub for UDC schedules in different languages. The service is a
collaboration between the Consortium and UDC publishers in several
countries.
English was the first language to be released on 26th August. Users can subscribe to the service Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-8577823692524281572013-06-24T22:43:00.001+01:002013-06-24T22:43:26.500+01:00International UDC Seminar 2013, The Hague, 24-25 October - early bird closes 30 JuneInternational UDC Seminar 2013 "Classification & Visualization: Interfaces to Knowledge" will take place on Thursday 24 - Friday 25 October in the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek), The Hague.
The objective of this conference is to explore cutting edge advances and techniques in the visualization of knowledge across various fields of application and their Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-19066839435893437972013-06-06T18:33:00.002+01:002013-06-06T18:33:22.384+01:00New UDC Consortium Facebook page
In February 2013 the old UDC Consortium website was redesigned. The website now has an online shop for Consortium publications.
The old UDCC facebook profile has also recently moved to a new facebook page which is going to be used more frequently for announcements of UDC products and events.
We would like to use this opportunity to invite UDC users to follow these channels of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-15740175554458612392012-11-08T15:26:00.001+00:002012-11-12T15:11:21.055+00:00CFP: International UDC Seminar 2013, The Hague, 24-25 October
Classification & Visualization: Interfaces to Knowledge
VENUE: The Hague, National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek)
DATE: 24-25 October 2013
WEBSITE: http://seminar.udcc.org/2013/
CONTACT: seminar2013@udcc.org
Bibliographic or documentary classifications are the oldest 'interfaces' to the world of information and knowledge. They provide a meaningful display of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-1687281562823049492012-10-08T21:50:00.002+01:002012-10-08T21:52:44.746+01:00FID & UDC Archive newsOn 2 October work started on the International
Federation for Information and Documentation (FID) and UDC archive. The archive is located in the basement of the
National Library of Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek).
About the archive
First FID archive folders
Following the
creation of the UDC Consortium in 1992, and the dissolution of the FID in
2000, records from the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-38963404993127597872012-08-26T12:23:00.000+01:002012-11-12T14:55:25.899+00:00UDC as linked data The Multilingual UDC Summary has been available as SKOS (XML/RDF) since November 2011. UDC Summary has over 2,500 UDC subdivisions including common auxiliaries (language, place, form, materials, properties etc.). UDC records in this selection contain notes, examples, references and are available in 48 languages.
In addition to the static export download, the UDC
SKOS export is also Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-45458782502011059082012-08-25T15:28:00.002+01:002012-08-25T15:28:31.230+01:00Development of the Multilingual UDC OnlineThe first complete UDC online schedules were published by BSI in 2000 for UDC in English (see UDC Online). In the subsequent years a number of other complete schedules appeared online in other languages: Czech, Slovenian and Slovakian and several free applications such as the Swedish and old Italian schedules that are not official UDC publications but are released to alleviate problems due to a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0The Netherlands52.132633 5.29126649.637715 0.2375550000000004 54.627551 10.344977tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-64838557143293202032012-08-20T22:12:00.002+01:002012-10-07T13:51:48.481+01:00UDC libraries in the world - 2012 studyIn January 2012, the UDC editorial team started a study into the number of libraries using UDC as a continuation of the previous 2004-2006 survey (pubished in Journal of Documentation, 64/2, 2008) in which it was reported that the system was used in 125 countries. In subsequent years we have discovered users in countries previously assumed to have no UDC libraries. Also some countries have Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0The Netherlands52.132633 5.29126649.637715 0.2375550000000004 54.627551 10.344977tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-54106189029403943612012-08-15T10:28:00.000+01:002012-11-12T15:03:19.332+00:00New Extensions & Corrections 33 (2011)
The new issue of Extensions and Corrections to the UDC No. 33 (2011), contains a number of reports and articles and the substantial list of changes introduced to the UDC in 2011. Revised tables in total contain information about 2,281 new UDC classes, 741 cancelled classes with their redirection and changes
of text in 964 classes.
Highlights in the revised changes:
Botany classUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-4301203705813478442012-07-27T12:41:00.003+01:002012-08-15T09:17:24.469+01:00UDC Update @ IFLA
The UDC Update session at the IFLA General Conference, in Helsinki will take place on
Sunday 12 August
12.15-13.45
Room 206
UDC editors will provide a short presentations about work on the UDC content developments and other activities.
See also the UDC Newsletter 2012 prepared for IFLAUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-81642133575777204782012-01-06T13:04:00.010+00:002012-11-12T15:04:52.067+00:00Extensions & Corrections to the UDC 32(2010)
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 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-5491962655679925902011-12-19T19:47:00.002+00:002012-10-02T20:53:25.472+01:00Season's Greetings from the UDCC
Best wishes for Christmas to everyone from the UDC team. We look forward to sharing a prosperous and productive 2012!
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-3229571535938556552011-10-04T12:02:00.009+01:002012-11-12T15:13:49.695+00:00Classification & Ontology - another successful International UDC Seminar
Classification & Ontology: Formal Approaches and Access to Knowledge
The 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.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-48651121560221563522011-08-15T13:30:00.005+01:002012-11-12T15:12:38.873+00:00Classification & Ontology conference proceedings
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 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-6117069566038647842011-08-08T21:15:00.013+01:002012-11-12T15:17:36.613+00:00UDC Update Meeting @ IFLA 2011
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 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8754626292239604450.post-62447693014421862022011-04-14T23:55:00.012+01:002012-11-12T15:12:03.786+00:00Programme announcement - Classification & Ontology Conference
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 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0