[InetBib] August Invitation: Faceted Classification Today, London 14-15 September

[Jiri Pika via InetBib <inetbib@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren
Dear colleagues


This is a late August / early September Invitation to Delegates 


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The International UDC Seminar 2017
FACETED CLASSIFICATION TODAY: theory, technology and end users
DATE:    14-15 September 2017
VENUE: Wellcome Collection
        183 Euston Road
        London, United Kingdom
WEBSITE:    http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/
CONTACT:    seminar2017@xxxxxxxx

UDC Seminar 2017 revisits faceted analytical theory as one of the most 
influential methodologies in the development of knowledge organization systems.

We invite information professionals, researchers, lecturers in library and 
information science and computer science as well as controlled vocabulary 
developers and designers to join us in discussing important issues related to 
'facets' and their application in information organization and discovery.

Various aspects of facet analysis will be discussed by the most eminent authors 
in the field of knowledge organization and classification: Richard Smiraglia, 
Vanda Broughton, Birger Hjorland, Claudio Gnoli, Joseph Tennis, Martin Fricke, 
Dagobert Soergel, Rebecca Green, Rick Szostak, A.R.D. Prasad, et al.

The conference proceeding (published by Ergon Verlag), will be distributed to 
delegates at the conference 
(http://www.udcc.org/index.php/site/page?view=facetedclassification).
To learn more about the conference programme and to register, go to the 
conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/.

Registration fee: €290 regular fee (students €250)

About the organizer: "Faceted Classification Today" is the sixth biennial 
conference in a series of International UDC Seminars organized by the Universal 
Decimal Classification Consortium (UDC Consortium). UDCC is a not-for-profit 
organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the 
UDC and to support its use and development (http://www.udcc.org). UDC is one of 
the most widely used knowledge organization systems in the bibliographic domain.

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UDC Consortium
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The Netherlands
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Web: http://www.udcc.org
Email: mail@xxxxxxxx
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* International UDC Seminar 2017 - London, 14-15 September -  
http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/
* UDC Online Hub (6 languages):  http://www.udc-hub.com/index.php
* UDC Summary (56 languages): http://www.udcsummary.info/php/index.php

The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is the world's foremost multilingual 
classification scheme for all fields of knowledge, a sophisticated indexing and 
retrieval tool
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Freundliche Grüsse
Best regards 


Jiri Pika

UDC Editorial Team, UDC Consortium
Alumni ETH Zürich