Back to basics: BC2 then, now, and in the future

BLISS CLASSIFICATION ASSOCIATION ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING & ANNUAL LECTURE
24 OCTOBER 2008 at 2.15 p.m.
University of London Library, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
in the Palaeography Seminar Room

‘Back to basics: BC2 then, now, and in the future’

The original Bibliographic Classification of H. E. Bliss was widely acclaimed as the finest of the general classification schemes of the early twentieth century. Its second edition has also been regarded as the model of a modern subject indexing and retrieval tool, embracing as it does the developed classification theory of the next generation. This event takes a comprehensive look at the fundamentals of BC2, the only fully faceted system of classification in the western world. The speakers will cover principles of BC2, how and why it was conceived, its use as a pattern for faceted vocabularies, its influence on other retrieval tools, and plans for the further development of BC2 as a thesaurus and in a web-enabled format.

Speakers include Jack Mills, Vanda Broughton, Jean Aitchison, and Leonard Will

The BCA Annual Lecture will take place at 3.15 p.m., immediately after the 2008 AGM of the Bliss Classification Association. The Lecture is open to anyone interested in matters relating to classification, indexing, and the problems of subject access and retrieval generally, and you are warmly invited to attend.

Entry is free, but if you would like to come, please email Vanda Broughton at v.broughton[at]ucl.ac.uk