Early Bird Registration: Classification & Authority Control, Lisbon, 29-30 October 2015

=== Early Bird Registration ===

The 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

Linked data practices and techniques have opened new possibilities in exploiting 
controlled vocabularies and improving resource discovery. Authority data held in 
library systems often includes classification schemes. These knowledge 
structures now have the potential for being shared across the linked data 
environment. The objective of this conference is to explore such potential, 
expanding the value and use of classification as an authority controlled 
vocabulary, from a local perspective to the global environment.

The conference will be opened by Emer. Prof. Michael Buckland, well-known expert 
in the history and theory of documentation and bibliographic access.
The topic of authority control, subject authority control and subject access in 
various contexts will be discussed by a series of eminent speakers speakers 
including Barbara Tillett, Dagobert Soergel, Rebecca Green, Maja Zumer, Marcia 
Zeng, Nuno Freire, Andrea Scharnhorst, Maria Ines Cordeiro, Koraljka Golub, 
Claudio Gnoli.

To learn more about conference programme and to register go to the conference 
website http://seminar.udcc.org/2015

Early bird registration opened on 12 June 2015:
€200 early bird fee, students €160 (to 31 July)
€250 regular fee, students €210 (registration closes 20 October)

About the organizer: Classification & Authority Control is the fifth biennial 
conference in a series of International UDC Seminars organized by the Universal 
Decimal Classification Consortium (UDC Consortium). UDCC is 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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