[Asis-l] Invitation: Faceted Classification Today, London 14-15 September

[Aida Slavic]

[apologies for cross-posting]

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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 at udcc.org

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 proceedings will be published by Ergon and distributed at the conference.
  
To learn more about the conference programme and to register, go to the conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/

Early bird registration opens 15 May 2017:
€250 early bird fee, students €220 (closes on 30 June)
€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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Dr Aida Slavic
Editor-in-Chief UDC
Email: aida.slavic at udcc.org
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