An updated overview of UDC editions and a bibliography of translations in 39 languages is provided at http://www.udcc.org/bibliography.htm

The new 29 (2007) issue of the Extensions and Corrections to the UDC has now been published. The Annex of the issue (pages 159-321) contains Proceedings of the International Seminar “Information Access for the Global Community”, 4-5 June 2007.

See the table of contents and ordering information.

At the UDC seminar 2007 in The Hague, MagnaView presented an innovative visual application which gives you the possibility to view the UDC Master Reference File in novel ways, and to interact with it visually. More information about UDC Viewer features, price and purchase is available in the MagnaView brochure.

Conference Announcement: STI-2007, Moscow, 24-26 October 2007
7th International Conference on Information Society, Intelligent Information Processing, Information Technologies (STI-2007) see more

New e-mail address for UDC Consortium is mail[@t]udcc.orgClick on the link but please remove the
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Monday 20 August, 13.00-14.00h, Room 12ab

The UDC UPDATE is an informal meeting to share general information and latest news about the Universal Decimal Classification. Representatives and collaborators of the UDC Consortium will be there to exchange information and views with users and publishers of the UDC. If you are attending IFLA and are interested in UDC matters, please make a note in your conference diary!

At the UDC Seminar in June, MagnaView announced that a special UDC-version of their application for visualising UDC MRF would be released on July 1. MagnaView has decided to postpone this release until September 1 to further improve this version. Their presentation "Visual Universal Decimal Classification?" and a summary of their talk can be viewed here.

Presentation files and abstracts of the talks delivered at the UDC Seminar 2007 are now linked from the Seminar's programme at http://www.udcc.org/seminar07/programme.htm.

Prof. Hermut Arntz passed away on 31 May 2007. Prof Arntz was an active member of FID Central Classification Committee and spent many years working on UDC (read more...).

We have created a UDC Weblog at http://universaldecimalclassification.blogspot.com.

A new revised edition of the UDC Guide by I.C.McIlwaine is published in June 2007.

The UDC Seminar 2007 - a two day event at the UDCC Headquarters in The Hague was opened in front of around 70 participants.

IUFRO Updated Global Forest Decimal Classification (GFDC) Published By IUFRO
IUFRO announces the publication of an extensively updated bilingual full version of English/German edition of the Global Forest Decimal Classification (GFDC). The classification is used with UDC to provide more precision for forestry subjects.

"Enhancement of UDC data for use and sharing in a networked environment": [presentation at the Librarian Workshop in conjunction with "The 31st Annual Conference of the German Classification Society on Data Analysis, Machine Learning, and Applications", March 7-9, 2007, Freiburg i. Br., Germany] by Aida Slavic, Maria Ines Cordeiro, Gerhard Riesthuis. Available at http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/