UDC Summaries - training material
Online database of around 1000 UDC classes with exports
Queries and comments: contact Aida Slavic [aida.slavic AT udcc.org]

UDC translation bibliographical survey
2004

Research into the complete number of translation of the UDC to world languages was conducted in 2004.

Findings and bibliography of translations can be found in the article "UDC Translations: a 2004 Survey Report and Bibliography".

FATKS
2002-2003

Project "Facet Analytical Theory in Managing Knolwedge Structure", funded by AHRB (Arts and Humanities Research Board) - Innovation Awards Scheme, 2001 - investigated the feasibility of using facet analytical theory to develop a knowledge structure suitable for the digital environment and developed a prototype of classification for humanities
The project, explored the possibility to make functional in the online environemnt, the facet analysis on the existing classifications BC2, BSO and UDC. The result is the prototype of a classification tool called FATHUM (http://ucl.ac.uk/fatks/database.htm).

The UDC Common auxiliaires were used in FATKS project as a source of generally applicable concepts.

Contact:
Vanda Broughton [v.broughton AT ucl.ac.uk] for the queries related to the overal project goals and objectives and facet analytical theory.
Queries and comments: contact Aida Slavic [aida.slavic AT udcc.org] for the queries related to the classification data model and database tool.

UNIDEC

2001-

The aim of the project is to design an expert system - a software package to generate UDC class numbers from document titles. As an initial approach, a decision support system is developed - an interactive computer-based system providing the user with decision models and data to support semi-structured and unstructured decision tasks.

Project developed by Prof. A. Srimurugan,
Head of the Department of Library & Information Science
Dr. TMP Library
Madurai Kamaraj University
MADURAI - 625 021, India
srinwinsall AT yahoo.com

Catalogue OKO
http://www.zrc-sazu.si/oko/

2000

OKO (The Eye) is a Slovenian catalogue of web resources hosted by the Scientific Research Centre (ZRC) of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU), Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Author and project management: Nada D. Celija, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Catalogue is indexed by UDC and supports browsing through the classification hierarchy. Interface of the catalogue is partially in English (main search functions and navigation buttons and resource descriptions are in Slovenian). Database is maintained manually and updated periodically.

MIRACLE
Music Information Resources Assisted Computer Library Exchange

1999-

Project is developing an online access to music resources for visually challenged users. It will provide access and download of braille music in digital form but also spoken music using synthetic speech and large letter music. Musical resources are stored in the central database and indexed using UDC. Funded by European Commission under DGXIII Libraries Programme

http://www.svb.nl/project/Miracle/miracle.htm

EASEL
Educators Access to Services in the Electronic Landscape
http://www.fdgroup.com/easel/

2000-2001

The project applies UDC classification in indexing and retrieval of distributed learning material. UDC numbers are used in Dublin Core and IMS metadata and UDC can be both searched (using words and numbers) and browsed on the search gateway. Funded by European Commission under IST (5th Framework)

BibHit (Bibliotekernes supersøger)
http://www.bibhit.dk/info/english.htm

1998-2000

BibHit is a Danish project which has as its goal to create a database of Internet resources of high quality. BibHit is a catalogue of internet resources indexed using DK5 (Danish classification system) and UDC in Dublin Core metadata.

Funded by Danish state.

DESIRE II
Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education
http://www.lub.lu.se/desire/

1998-2000

The second phase of the DESIRE was supposed intends to provide system enhancements to subject based search services and to work towards an organisational framework in which they can operate more efficiently.Experiments were made in the frame of DESIRE to auto-classify the collection on engineering used in DESIRE with the software and thesaurus (UDC) of GERHARD.

Funded by EU´s Telematics Application Programme

GERHARD

German Harvest Automated Retrieval and Directory
http://www.gerhard.de/

Phase 1: 1996-1998

Phase 2: 2001-2002

This project uses UDC for automatic classification of the German web. GERHARD created a HARVEST based robot-generated index of Web resources in Germany using indexing and automatic classification and provides a search and a hierarchical browsing facility based on the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) which is maintained electronically at the Library of the ETH Zürich. The UDC is three-lingual (English, German, French) and includes about 60.000 entries with 13 different relations.

In the second phase of the project it is planned to improve the statistics software without changing the overall concept, as well as to enrich the UDC data with bibliographic resources that were manually classified by using UDC. Other new features will be automatic recognition of language and document types.

Funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

SOSIG
Social Science Information Gateway
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/about_us/research.html

1996-1998

SOSIG is information gateway classified according to the UDC. As a part of its development SOSIG has created a program that extracts the manually assigned keywords from the main catalogue and analyses the frequency with which they appear in records classified with particular class numbers - in this case UDC. This vocabulary is then used with the DESIRE autoclassification system to assign one or more UDC class numbers to the harvested records.

Funded by The UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and The UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).

A feasibility study on potential for converting the Universal Decimal Classification into a fully faceted system

1993-1998

Research was conducted by I.C. McIlwaine (UDC Consortium) and Nancy Williamson (Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto).

Funded by University of Toronto and UDC Consortium

The KBS-CROSS Project
Knowledge-Based System for automatic CROSS-referencing of classification systems - KBS-CROSS

1994-1995

The goals of KBS-CROSS were to produce a computerized tool that cross-references the Library of Congress' classification systems with the UDC within the domain of building and architecture. The tool was planned to incorporate neural network technology.
Funded by FNR, Lund University, Sweden.

http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/delphi/KBS/projects/kbscross.html

Nordic WAIS/World Wide Web Project

1994

Subproject: Automatic classification of WAIS databases
http://www.lub.lu.se/autoclass.html

Automatic detection of new WAIS databases Automatic classification according to UDC, English medium edition. Build a WAIS subject tree based on the two top levels of UDC.

University College London
School of Library, Archive and Information Studies
United Kingdom

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais
Research interests:

UDC content development, revision and
facetisation of the UDC

Contact: I. C. McIlwaine (i.mcilwaine AT ucl.ac.uk)

Religion and theology in the UDC
Revision of Chemistry, Physics
The use of facets in the UDC

Contact: Vanda Broughton (v.broughton AT ucl.ac.uk)

UDC in information retrieval
UDC formatting and modelling
UDC data exchange
classification authority file
the use of classification in the network environment

Contact: Aida Slavic (aida.slavic AT udcc.org)

British Standards Institution
United Kingdom

Contact: Simone Levy (simone.levy@bsi-global.com)

National Library of the
Czech Republic

UDC as an organising tool for subject browsing and navigation in Web environments
UDC as a switching language in multi/cross-culture and multi-lingual environment
UDC as an organising tool in OPACS and bibliographies
UDC as an access point to metadata records

Contact: Marie Baliková (marie.balikova AT nkp.cz)

University of Amsterdam
Department of Book, Archive and Information Science
The Netherlands

http://www.hum.uva.nl/
Research interests:

UDC in the information retrieval
searching UDC using words
thesaurus construction from the UDC
UDC classification format

Contact: Gerhard J. A. Riesthuis (griesth AT xs4all.nl)

building a thesaurus based on the UDC
mapping the UDC numbers with multilingual thesaurus terms in Romanian, English and French
using the UDC in subject access as a switching structure between terms in a multilingual thesaurus
UDC as a switching structure between different indexing languages