Classification and indexing

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: 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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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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Classification and Indexing Section: Call for Papers

David Miller — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:42:52 +0100

"Has as subject": bridging domains, communities and systems

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Multilingual Dictionary of Cataloguing Terms and Concepts (MulDiCat)

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:22:17 +0200

The Multilingual dictionary of cataloguing terms and concepts 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.

The MulDiCat project was begun by Monika Muennich in 1998 for IFLA's Cataloguing Section. It was stored in a proprietary database developed by Bernard Eversberg in 2003. It has now re-emerged in part as a Word table and as a SKOS file on the new IFLA Namespace.

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Classification and Indexing Section: June 2010 Newsletter now available

David Miller — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:04:16 +0200

The June 2010 Newsletter for the Classification and Indexing Section is now available. This issue features a preview of Section events in Gothenburg, international developments in classification and subject indexing, and related events of interest.

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CLASS: Classification and Indexing Section mailing list

David Miller — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:41:45 +0200

CLASS: is the Classification and Indexing Section list. The list is to facilitate communication among the Section Members and to allow to exchange of materials and proposals between Coordinating Board meetings. Messages intended for distribution to the list should be sent to: class@infoserv.inist.fr.

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