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Call for Papers—Subject Access now: Inspiring, surprising, empowering

Sandra Roe — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:27:42 +0100

For the Classification & Indexing Section Open Session we invite presentations showing new and innovative ways of providing subject access to users from all types of libraries – approaches or applications that are inspiring, surprising, empowering.

For example:

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Classification and Indexing Section: December 2011 Newsletter published

Sandra Roe — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:12:22 +0100

The Classification and Indexing Section’s December Newsletter is now available. This issue includes calls for papers for the section’s open program in Helsinki and for our satellite post-conference to be held 17-18 August 2012 in Tallinn, an overview of the section’s activities over the past year, and international news.

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No. 44 - December 2011 [PDF]

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Approval of Guidelines for Subject Access in National Bibliographies

Yvonne Jahns — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:20:32 +0100

The Working Group on Guidelines for Subject Access by National Bibliographic Agencies is pleased to submit the final version of the Guidelines for Subject Access in National Bibliographies for approval by the Sections on Bibliography and Classification and Indexing.

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Subject Access; Preparing for the Future

Patrice Landry, Leda Bultrini, Edward T. O’Neill and Sandra K. Roe (Eds.) — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:21:29 +0200

This volume contains the proceedings of a special conference held in Florence, August 2009. The theoretical and methodological aspects of rethinking semantic access to information and knowledge are explored. Innovative projects deployed to cope with the challenges of the future are presented and discussed.

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Classification and Indexing Section: June 2011 Newsletter published

David Miller — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 01:55:50 +0200

The Section's June Newsletter includes reports from the IFLA Namespaces Task Group, a call for comments by the Working Group on Guidelines for Subject Access by National Bibliographic Agencies, a preview of the Section's activities at the San Juan conference, and international news.

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Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD) - A Conceptual Model

Marcia Lei Zeng, Maja Žumer & Athena Salaba (Eds.) — Mon, 30 May 2011 10:26:58 +0200

The purpose of authority control is to ensure consistency in representing a value - a name of a person, a place name, or a term or code representing a subject - in the elements used as access points in information retrieval.

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Worldwide Review of the Guidelines for Subject Access in National Bibliographies

David Miller and Yvonne Jahns — Sun, 15 May 2011 21:56:07 +0200

The IFLA Working Group on Guidelines for Subject Access by National Bibliographic Agencies invites your review of the proposed text for the "Guidelines for Subject Access in National Bibliographies".

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IFLA Namespaces Task Group

David Miller — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:15:51 +0100

Established: 2009

Terms of reference:

Prepare a requirements and options paper on the topic of IFLA support for the representation of IFLA standards in formats suitable for use in the Semantic Web.
Act as caretaker until an IFLA Namespaces Technical Group is constituted.

Reports:

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Classification and Indexing Section - December 2010 Newsletter published

David Miller — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 04:03:12 +0100

The December 2010 issues of the Classification and Indexing Section Newsletter is now available. This issue includes a report from the IFLA Namespaces Task Group, the Section Annual Report, news from the Universal Decimal and Dewey Decimal Classifications, calls for papers, and other items of international interest.

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MulDiCat now available in RDF/SKOS

David Miller — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:12:51 +0100

The Multilingual Dictionary of Cataloguing Terms and Concepts (MulDiCat) is now available as an RDF/SKOS XML file. MulDiCat contains definitions for many terms and concepts used by the library cataloguing community. Terms and definitions are available in English and a variety of other languages. For more information, see the MulDiCat page.

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