Apologies for cross-posting *** EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION CLOSES 1 JULY*** ================================================= CLASSIFICATION AND ONTOLOGY: FORMAL APPROACHES AND ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE International UDC Seminar 2011 - 19-20 September, The Hague, Netherlands ================================================= http://seminar.udcc.org/2011/index.htm ------------------------------------------------- VENUE: Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of Netherlands) EARLY BIRD FEE: €170 (€130 students) - early bird closes on 1 July Fee includes conference proceedings book (published by Ergon Verlag), refreshment, reception and two lunches. To register and pay online go to http://seminar.udcc.org/2011/php/registration.php Ontology-like representations of classifications are recognized as potentially important facilitators in creating a web of linked data. The objective of this conference is to promote collaboration and exchange of expertise between different fields dealing with knowledge classifications: bibliographic, web and AI. Highlights: Keynote address by Prof. Patrick Hayes, followed by an outstanding selection of speakers from the domains of web technology, ontology, knowledge organization and bibliographic classification: Dan Brickley, Guus Schreiber, Thomas Baker, Dagobert Soergel, Roberto Poli, Ingetraut Dahlberg, Barbara Kwasnik, Rebecca Green, Michael Panzer, Marcia Zeng, Daniel Kless, Joan Mitchell, Richard Smiraglia, Vanda Broughton, Devika Madalli, Claudio Gnoli etc. The preliminary programme with abstracts and speakers biographies is available at http://seminar.udcc.org/2011/programme.htm. To secure your place at this event at early bird rates, register and pay by 1 July. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Aida Slavic UDC Editor-in-Chief UDC Consortium aida.slavic@udcc.org ____________________________________________________________________ Web: http://www.udcc.org Blog: http://universaldecimalclassification.blogspot.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/UDCC ____________________________________________________________________ * Multilingual UDC Summary: http://www.udcc.org/udcsummary/php/index.php * Classification& Ontology: http://seminar.udcc.org/2011/index.htm -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.