[Sigcr-l] News on Multilingual UDC Summary Online - 40 languages online

[Aida Slavic]

Hi,

This email is to keep colleagues informed as to the progress of the Multilingual 
Universal Decimal Classification Summary project,
containing an abridged schedule of over 2000 classes with notes and examples.The 
Summary can be found at http://www.udcc.org/udcsummary/php/index.php?lang=en

At the moment we have 40 languages online, some completely translated and others 
in various stages of translation:
Armenian, Basque, Bengali, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, 
English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician,
Georgian, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, 
Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, 
Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

We expect top classes in Irish, Punjabi and Vietnamese shortly and we are trying 
to get in touch with colleagues in other countries as well.
There are over 100 volunteers, librarians, library school lecturers and 
researchers currently working on the translations in their national
language. Database statistics showing the translation progress can be viewed at 
http://www.udcc.org/udcsummary/stats/php/trans_stats.php

These abridged schedules are available for free use and distribution and 
although our export download interface is not yet completed - exports
can be obtained on request (email: udcs at udcc.org). In spite of the fact that the 
UDC Summary currently provides a simple browsing interface it is proving to be a 
very popular training and teaching aid worldwide.
Average access to the website in March was over 22,000 hits per day.

As soon as we release the next UDC Master Reference file in May 2011 we will 
intensify work on a new search interface for the UDC Summary and other features.

Read more:

Presentation at the ISKO Italy meeting (1 April) in Venice by Chiara Zara "Il 
progetto di traduzione multilingue online della CDU" at
http://www.iskoi.org/doc/venezia11/zara.ppt

Extensions and Corrections to the UDC arcticle "Multilingual UDC Summary
Online Project: 2009 update" at
http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/arizona/bitstream/10150/118426/1/Slavic_Overfield_Riesthuis_Pika.pdf

Sincerely
-- 
Dr Aida Slavic
UDC Editor-in-Chief
UDC Consortium
aida.slavic at udcc.org
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* Multilingual UDC Summary: http://www.udcc.org/udcsummary/php/index.php
* Classification & Ontology: http://seminar.udcc.org/2011/index.htm