Programme available - Faceted Classification Today - London, 14-15 September

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 access.

The conference is aimed at information professionals, researchers, lecturers in library and information science and computer science as well as controlled vocabulary developers and designers.

The Seminar's Programme features the most prominent researchers in the field of knowledge organization and classification theory: Richard Smiraglia, Vanda Broughton, Birger Hjørland, Claudio Gnoli, Joseph Tennis, ARD Prasad and  Fausto Giunchiglia, Martin Fricke, Dagobert Soergel, etc.

Invitation: Classification & Authority Control - Lisbon 29-30 October 2015

The International UDC Seminar 2015 entitled "Classification & Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery" will take place in The National Library of Portugal in Lisbon, on 29-30 October 2015.

The objective of the conference is to explore issues in managing classification vocabulary in and between information systems. Particular emphasis will be on the possibilities for exploiting and sharing subject authority data in the linked data environment.

Speakers include Michael Buckland, Barbara Tillett, Dagobert Soergel, Rebecca Green, Maja Žumer & Marcia Zeng, Nuno Freire, Maria Inês Cordeiro, Andrea Scharnhorst & Richard Smiraglia, Wolfram Sperber, Koraljka Golub, Claudio Gnoli, Marie Balikova, Victoria Francu.

To learn more about conference programme and to register go to the conference website.
Proceedings are published by Ergon.

Venue:  National Library of Portugal, Campo Grande 83, Lisbon
Conference fee: € 250 (students € 210)

Organizer: UDC Consortium and the National Library of Portugal.

Classification & Visualization, The Hague, 24-25 October - early bird closes 30 June

International UDC Seminar 2013 entitled "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 potential impact on developments in the more main stream bibliographic and documentary classifications. 

Speakers include: W. Boyd Rayward, Lev Manovich, Kathryn La Barre, Fabrice Papy, Marcel Worring, Luca Rosati, Andrea Resmini, Richard Smiraglia, Charles van den Heuvel, Andrea Scharnhorst, Scott Weingart, etc. 

To learn more about the conference programme and to register go to the conference website.

Early bird registration closes on 30th June: 
€180 early bird fee, students €140 (to 30 June) 
€220 regular fee, students €180 

Registration fee covers lunches, refreshments, reception and the conference proceedings book. 

Contact: seminar2013@udcc.org 

We look forward to seeing you in October

CFP: Classification and Visualization, The Hague, 24-25 October 2013

INTERNATIONAL UDC SEMINAR 2013
Classification & Visualization: 
Interfaces to Knowledge

VENUE:         National Library of the Netherlands
DATE:        24-25 October 2013
WEBSITE: http://seminar.udcc.org/2013/
CONTACT: seminar2013@udcc.org
PROPOSALS DEADLINE: 15 January 2013


"Classification & Visualization: Interfaces to Knowledge" is the fourth in a series of International UDC Seminars devoted to advances in documentary classification research and their application in a networked environment.

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 potential impacts on thinking about developments in the more main stream bibliographic and documentary classifications.

We invite overviews, illustrations and analysis of approaches to and models of the visualization of knowledge that can help advance the application of documentary and bibliographic classification in information and knowledge discovery. We welcome high quality, innovative research contributions from various fields of application including:

• visualization of knowledge orders (e.g. scientific taxonomies, Wikipedia)
• visualization of collection content, large datasets
• visualization of knowledge classifications for the purpose of managing the classifications and working with them
• visualization of knowledge to support interactive searching, users browsing behaviour (IR) and classification as an aid to information navigation

We will accept two kinds of contributions:  conference papers and posters. Authors should submit a paper proposal in the form of an extended abstract (1000-1200 words including references for papers and 500-600 words for posters). The submission form is provided on the conference website.

Conference proceedings will be published by Ergon Verlag and will be distributed at the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES:  
          15 Jan 2013    Paper proposal submission deadline
          15 Feb 2013    Notification of acceptance
          15 Apr 2013    Paper submission

ORGANIZER: International UDC Seminar 2013 is organized by the UDC Consortium (UDCC) and hosted by Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The National Library of Netherlands). UDCC is a not-for-profit organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the Universal Decimal Classification and to support its use and development.