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=== REGISTRATION OPEN ===

International UDC Seminar 2013 entitled "Classification & Visualization:
Interfaces to Knowledge" will take place on Thursday 24 - Friday 25 October in
the National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek), The Hague

Conference website: http://seminar.udcc.org/2013.

The objective of this conference is to explore cutting edge advances and
techniques in the visualization of knowledge across various fields of
application and their potential impact on developments in the more main stream
bibliographic and documentary classifications.

The conference will be opened by Emer. Prof. W. Boyd Rayward, well-known
historian of the international organization of knowledge and the history of
documentation and information science. His keynote address will set the scene
for discussions on models and metaphors of knowledge and information
visualization that bridge historical and technological perspectives.

A series of eminent speakers will follow: Lev Manovich, Kathryn La Barre,
Fabrice Papy, Marcel Worring, Luca Rosati, Andrea Resmini, Scott Weingart,
Richard Smiraglia, Charles van den Heuvel, Andrea Scharnhorst etc.

To learn more about conference programme and to register go to the conference
website http://seminar.udcc.org/2013

Early bird registration opens on 15 May 2013:
EUR180 early bird fee, students EUR140 (to 30 June)
EUR220 regular fee, students EUR180

Contact: seminar2013 <at> udcc.org

About the organizer: Classification & Visualization is the fourth biennial
conference in a series of International UDC Seminars organized by the Universal
Decimal Classification Consortium (UDC Consortium). UDCC is 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). UDC is one of the
most widely used knowledge organization systems in the bibliographic domain.

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World Library and Information Congress: 79th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
Singapore, 17-23 August 2013
Classification & Indexing Section Open Session
Call for Papers
"Subject access: Infinite possibilities"
http://conference.ifla.org/ifla79/calls-for-papers/subject-access-infinite-possibilities

For the Classification & Indexing Section Open Session we invite presentations showing new, unique, or innovative ways of providing subject access to users from all types of libraries - approaches or applications that go beyond the traditional or the ordinary, being exemplars of "infinite possibilities".

For example ...

* Are you developing or applying subject access tools that exceed expectations, facilitating infinite possibilities for your users' needs?

* Do you provide subject access to resources through library architecture or shelving design that is unique, innovative, or seen as "cutting edge"?

* Have you designed new or particularly creative tools for navigating subject repositories?

* Do you use subject metadata in novel or unexpected ways in recommendation or other subject access services?

* Is there a connection between your subject access policies and learning environments that are creative, or encouraging of "thinking outside the box"?

* Are you designing structured vocabularies for the linked data cloud that lead the way to infinite possibilities for subject access?

* Do you offer innovative genre access for fiction, children's literature, audiovisual media, or emerging digital objects?

* Do you work in a library or other information institution with a unique social tagging success story?

* Has your library or information institution devised strategic approaches to managing the vast landscape of subject access systems and tools that threaten to overwhelm users with infinite possibilities?

If so, then please consider submitting a short paper to present at our Open Session in Singapore.

We are particularly interested in presentations from Singaporean libraries or libraries of the Asian/Southeast Asian areas.

Submissions

The new deadline for submitting short papers is 22 February, 2013
Papers should be in English and no more than 2000 words in length. The submission should also include:

* Abstract of approximately 150 words, summarizing the paper
* Author's name, professional affiliation, postal address, and email address.

Short papers and presentations should represent unpublished, original work. Submissions will be reviewed by a selection committee of members of the Standing Committee of the Classification and Indexing Section. Successful short papers will be identified by March 1, 2013, and authors notified shortly thereafter.

Authors should be prepared to give presentations at the C&IS Open Session at the IFLA Conference, held between August 17-23, 2013. The length of the presentations should be approximately 15 minutes with 5 minutes for questions/discussion. The conference will be conducted in English and all presentations will be required to be in English.

Successful short papers will be translated into the official languages of IFLA. IFLA has first publication rights to papers selected.

Short paper submissions should be sent to Lynne C. Howarth, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, at: lynne.howarth <at> utoronto.calynne.howarth <at> utoronto.ca>.

Please note
All expenses, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation etc., are the responsibility of the authors/presenters. No financial support can be provided by IFLA, but a special invitation can be issued to authors.

Sandy Roe
Secretary, Classification & Indexing Section
Editor, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly
Head, Cataloging & Metadata Services Unit
Milner Library | Illinois State University | Normal, IL 61790-8900
phone: 309-438-5039 || fax: 309-438-5132 || email: skroe <at> ilstu.eduskroe <at> ilstu.edu>

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World Library and Information Congress: 79th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
Singapore, 17-23 August 2013
Classification & Indexing Section Open Session
Call for Papers
"Subject access: Infinite possibilities"

For the Classification & Indexing Section Open Session we invite presentations showing new, unique, or innovative ways of providing subject access to users from all types of libraries - approaches or applications that go beyond the traditional or the ordinary, being exemplars of "infinite possibilities".

For example ...

* Are you developing or applying subject access tools that exceed expectations, facilitating infinite possibilities for your users' needs?

* Do you provide subject access to resources through library architecture or shelving design that is unique, innovative, or seen as "cutting edge"?

* Have you designed new or particularly creative tools for navigating subject repositories?

* Do you use subject metadata in novel or unexpected ways in recommendation or other subject access services?

* Is there a connection between your subject access policies and learning environments that are creative, or encouraging of "thinking outside the box"?

* Are you designing structured vocabularies for the linked data cloud that lead the way to infinite possibilities for subject access?

* Do you offer innovative genre access for fiction, children's literature, audiovisual media, or emerging digital objects?

* Do you work in a library or other information institution with a unique social tagging success story?

* Has your library or information institution devised strategic approaches to managing the vast landscape of subject access systems and tools that threaten to overwhelm users with infinite possibilities?

If so, then please consider submitting a short paper to present at our Open Session in Singapore.

We are particularly interested in presentations from Singaporean libraries or libraries of the Asian/Southeast Asian areas.

Submissions

The deadline for submitting short papers is 8 February, 2013
Papers should be in English and no more than 2000 words in length. The submission should also include:

* Abstract of approximately 150 words, summarizing the paper
* Author's name, professional affiliation, postal address, and email address.

Short papers and presentations should represent unpublished, original work. Submissions will be reviewed by a selection committee of members of the Standing Committee of the Classification and Indexing Section. Successful short papers will be identified by March 1, 2013, and authors notified shortly thereafter.

Authors should be prepared to give presentations at the C&IS Open Session at the IFLA Conference, held between August 17-23, 2013. The length of the presentations should be approximately 15 minutes with 5 minutes for questions/discussion. The conference will be conducted in English and all presentations will be required to be in English.

Successful short papers will be translated into the official languages of IFLA. IFLA has first publication rights to papers selected.

Short paper submissions should be sent to Lynne C. Howarth, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, at: lynne.howarth <at> utoronto.calynne.howarth <at> utoronto.ca>.

Please note
All expenses, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation etc., are the responsibility of the authors/presenters. No financial support can be provided by IFLA, but a special invitation can be issued to authors.

Sandy Roe
Secretary, Classification & Indexing Section
Editor, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly
Head, Cataloging & Metadata Services Unit
Milner Library | Illinois State University | Normal, IL 61790-8900
phone: 309-438-5039 || fax: 309-438-5132 || email: skroe <at> ilstu.eduskroe <at> ilstu.edu>

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==== FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ====

CLASSIFICATION AND VISUALIZATION: INTERFACES TO KNOWLEDGE
International UDC Seminar 2013

VENUE: The Hague, National Library of the Netherlands
DATE: 24-25 October 2013
WEBSITE: http://seminar.udcc.org/2013/
CONTACT: seminar2013 <at> udcc.org

We invite overviews, illustrations and analysis of approaches to and models of
the visualization of knowledge that can help advance the application of
documentary and bibliographic classifications in information and knowledge
discovery.
Paper proposals should be submitted in the form of an extended abstract
(1000-1200 words including references for papers and 500-600 words for posters).

To read more about invited topics visit the conference website:
http://seminar.udcc.org/2013/

Important dates
15 Jan 2013 - Paper proposal submission deadline
15 Feb 2013 - Notification of acceptance
15 Apr 2013 - Paper submission

ORGANIZER: Classification and Visualization is the fourth biennial conference in a
series of International UDC Seminars organized by the UDC Consortium (UDCC) and
hosted by Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The National Library of Netherlands).

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Dr Aida Slavic
Editor-in-Chief, UDC
UDC Consortium
The Hague, The Netherlands

==== 3rd CALL FOR PAPERS ====

CLASSIFICATION AND VISUALIZATION: INTERFACES TO KNOWLEDGE
International UDC Seminar 2013

VENUE: The Hague, National Library of the Netherlands
DATE: 24-25 October 2013
WEBSITE: http://seminar.udcc.org/2013/
CONTACT: seminar2013 <at> udcc.org

We invite overviews, illustrations and analysis of approaches to and models of
the visualization of knowledge that can help advance the application of
documentary and bibliographic classifications in information and knowledge
discovery.
Paper proposals should be submitted in the form of an extended abstract
(1000-1200 words including references for papers and 500-600 words for posters).

To read more about invited topics visit the conference website:
http://seminar.udcc.org/2013/

Important dates
15 Jan 2013 - Paper proposal submission deadline
15 Feb 2013 - Notification of acceptance
15 Apr 2013 - Paper submission

ORGANIZER: Classification& Visualization is the fourth biennial conference in a
series of International UDC Seminars organized by the UDC Consortium (UDCC) and
hosted by Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The National Library of Netherlands).

---
Dr Aida Slavic
Editor-in-Chief, UDC
UDC Consortium
The Hague, The Netherlands

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====CALL FOR PAPERS ====

CLASSIFICATION AND VISUALIZATION:INTERFACES TO KNOWLEDGE

International UDC Seminar 2013

VENUE:The Hague, National Library of the Netherlands

DATE: 24-25 October 2013

WEBSITE: http://seminar.udcc.org/2013/

CONTACT: seminar2013 <at> udcc.org

The objective of this conference is to explore cutting edge advances and
techniques in the visualization of knowledge across various fields of
application and their potential impact on developments in the more main stream
bibliographic and documentary classifications.

We invite overviews, illustrations and analysis of approaches to and models of
the visualization of knowledge that can help advance the application of
documentary and bibliographic classifications in information and knowledge
discovery. We welcome high quality, innovative research contributions from
various fields of application including:

- visualization of knowledge orders (e.g. scientific taxonomies, Wikipedia)

- visualization of collection content, large datasets

- visualization of knowledge classifications for the purpose of managing the
classifications and working with them

- visualization of knowledge to support interactive searching, user browsing
behaviour (IR) and classification as an aid to information navigation

Specific topics may include:

1. Issues and challenges in visualization of conceptual structures and knowledge
in general, e.g. development of knowledge over time, shift in knowledge
structures (dynamic knowledge), interactions between knowledge structures,
socio-cultural issues, technical challenges (incl. animation, simulation)

2. Knowledge visualization models and metaphors: theory, methods, overviews,
analysis

3. Visualization of classification in: information searching and browsing (e.g.
search expansion, result display); visualization of knowledge in relation to
user information needs

4. Presentation and visualization related to specific types of knowledge
classification structure (e.g. faceted and enumerative hierarchies,
polyhierarchical and/or aspect classifications etc.)

5. Classification as an aid in presenting and navigating large datasets, or
providing an overview of collection content for resource discovery or management
purposes

6. Visualization as an aid to cross-collection, cross-language, cross-vocabulary
knowledge browsing

7. Relationships between classification data formats and classification
visualization

We invite two kinds of contributions: conference papers and posters. Paper
proposals should be submitted in the form of an extended abstract (1000-1200
words including references for papers and 500-600 words for posters). A
submission form is provided on the conference website.

Conference proceedings will be published by Ergon Verlag and will be distributed
at the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES:
15 Jan 2013Paper proposal submission deadline

15 Feb 2013Notification of acceptance

15 Apr 2013Paper submission

ORGANIZER: Classification & Visualization is the fourth biennial conference in a
series of International UDC Seminars organized by the UDC Consortium (UDCC) and
hosted by Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The National Library of Netherlands). UDCC is
a not-for-profit organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and
distribute the Universal Decimal Classification and to support its use and
development.

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