[Sigcr-l] Conference outputs online: Classification at a Crossroads 29-30 October

[Aida Slavic]

Hi,

International UDC Seminar 2009 entitled "Classification at a Crossroads: 
multiple directions to usability" took place in The Hague on 29-30 
October 2009.

This conference was very successful in bringing together speakers and 
audience from different communities interested in and working with 
classification schemes. There were 135 delegates in attendance from 32 
countries and from various kinds of information services and 
institutions, libraries, museums, academia and research institutes. The 
focus of the conference was on technical and technological issues on how 
to make classification work in a networked environment.

Talks provoked interesting discussions and interactions and left us all 
with the feeling that we need more events of this kind which would give 
opportunities to technical, software and standards specialists to 
interact with classificationists, classification owners and 
practitioners. The panel discussion at the end of the conference 
stressed again how the application environment for classification has 
changed significantly for both those who publish and distribute 
classification and for those who apply it. The commitment to open 
sharing and linking of data is a shared responsibility. It transpires 
that many issues that deal with the classification use are not entirely 
to do with funding or programming expertise as much as a matter of  
'know how' and there is a great responsibility on gatekeepers of this 
knowledge and expertise to share it and make it accessible.

We have now published talk slides and mp3 recordings (only one session 
at the end of the first day was not recorded for technical reasons) and 
we hope that colleagues interested in this area may find some of the 
talks inspiring:

http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/programme.htm

We will make an announcement when conference papers are published.

Kind regards

Aida Slavic


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