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Call for Papers Opens - International UDC Seminar 2015

05/01/2015

International UDC Seminar 2015 "Classification & Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery" will take place on 29-30 October 2015 in Lisbon (Portugal). Call for papers is open until 8th March.

Experts in authority control, classification schemes and linked data are invited to provide overviews, illustrations and analysis of classification data management and exploitation. Contributions are welcome on high quality, innovative research and practice on the following topics:

Classification as a component of subject authority control
Classification authority data formats and modeling
Classification and multilingual subject access
Sharing classification data from authority files
Classification data in the open linked data context

Two kinds of contributions will be accepted: conference papers and posters. Authors should submit a paper proposal in the form of an extended abstract (1000-1200 words, including references, for papers; and 500-600 words for posters). The submission form is provided on the conference website.

Proposals will be reviewed by the Programme Committee consisting of an international panel of experts. Each submission will undergo a blind review by at least three reviewers. The Conference proceedings will be published by Ergon Verlag and will be distributed at the conference.

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