[InetBib] INVITATION FOR REGISTRATION === The International UDC Seminar 2017 FACETED CLASSIFICATION TODAY: theory, technology and end users

[Jiri Pika via InetBib <inetbib@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren
Dear colleagues


=== INVITATION FOR REGISTRATION ===
 
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/ <http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/>
CONTACT:    seminar2017@xxxxxxxx <mailto: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 Hjørland, Claudio Gnoli, Joseph Tennis, A.R.D. Prasad, 
Martin Fricke, Dagobert Soergel, Rebecca Green, Rick Szostak 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/ <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 
<http://www.udcc.org/>). UDC is one of the most widely used knowledge 
organization systems in the bibliographic domain. 

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Freundliche Grüsse
Best regards 


Jiri Pika

UDC Editorial Team, UDC Consortium
Alumni ETH Zürich