June 2012 As Usual, the World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) Will Be a Busy Time for Our Contents Section

selection committee composed of three Standing Committee members, Lynne Howarth, Yvonne Jahns and Eunice Silva Pinto, whom I thank warmly, will address current issues pertaining to this most exciting subject. A printable program, where you can also find the conference papers, is available at http://conference.ifla.org/ifla78/programme-and- proceedings-full-printable. Nr. 45 June 2012 As usual, the World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) will be a busy time for our Contents section. The Standing Committee (SC) will meet twice. Our first meeting will be held on Saturday, A few words from the Chair August 11 from 15:15 to 17:45 and the second IFLA-Matters January – June 2012 meeting will take place on Wednesday, August 13 Section News & Reports from 9:45 to 11:15. We invite you to attend o WLIC Schedule these meetings as it is a good opportunity to see o IFLA Namespaces Technical Group the Committee at work. o Guidelines for Subject Access by National Bibliographic Agencies Our section will also be hosting, with the National News from... Library of Estonia, a one and a half day post- o China satellite conference in beautiful Tallinn on August o Czechia 17 and 18. The conference theme, Beyond o Estonia libraries – subject metadata in the digital o Germany environment and semantic web, has enabled the o Italy selection committee, comprised of SC members o Norway John DeSantis, Gordon Dunsire, Sirje Nilbe, o Sweden Magdalena Svanberg and Maja Žumer, to present o United States an excellent programme. I also warmly thank News around the World them for their excellent work. All pertinent o Dewey Decimal Classification information can be found on the Conference o Universal Decimal Classification website, http://www.nlib.ee/tallinnsatellite. o NLM Classification o ISO 25964 After all this joyous news, I am sorry to o VIAF announce that the Section’s secretary, Magdalena o Conferences Svanberg, has had to resign as secretary and leave her seat on the SC for a happy reason for A few words from the Chair her, a new job. She has graciously agreed to continue her work on the Tallinn Conference

committee but will not be attending the Dear Colleagues, conferences in August. I wish to publicly express Welcome to our June issue. my gratitude for her work on the SC and wish

It is with great anticipation that I am looking her, on behalf of the SC, a very happy new life. forward to seeing all of you at the upcoming Thank you Magdalena, we will miss you.

WLIC in Helsinki in August. If you have not yet Finally, I wish to thank all contributors to this registered, I encourage you to do so. issue and our Newsletter editor, Yvonne Jahns,

I am very happy to announce that this year, we for editing this issue. I hope you enjoy reading will be hosting a two hour open session of great this issue of our Newsletter, and I look forward to value. In keeping with the Helsinki Conference meeting you at this year’s WLIC in Helsinki. theme, Libraries Now! - Inspiring, Surprising, Empowering, the theme of the open session is Jo-Anne Bélair Subject access now: inspiring, surprising, Chair, Classification and Indexing empowering and is positioned in Congress track Section 5: Ideas, innovations, anticipating the new. The Division III Library Services session will be held on Tuesday, August 14 from Email: [email protected] 9:30 to 11:30 (see also our conference schedule on page 4). The four speakers, chosen by a

IFLA-Matters January – June 2012 News from the Governing Board The IFLA Governing Board, its sub-committees New Membership Category and working groups all met at the beginning of In order to encourage retired professionals and April for three days of hard work at IFLA those in between jobs to participate in IFLA, Headquarters in The Hague. The Governing Board IFLA introduced a new Membership category for has endorsed new IFLA Principles of Engagement Individuals: Non-Salaried Affiliate. which set out IFLA’s role in library-related While all benefits are equal to those of Personal activities of disaster risk-reduction and in times Affiliates, the fee is considerably lower (EUR 59 of conflict, crisis or national disaster. The for 2012). Please contact IFLA Membership Governing Board also endorsed a paper which Officer, Tatjana Hoeink [email protected] - if describes the current situation and the problems interested in joining this category. related to the lending of e-books by libraries, as well as proposed a strategy for IFLA to Latest issue of IFLA Journal investigate and attempt to solve some of these Volume 37, No. 4 (December 2011) is available problems.

New Division Chair Russell Lynch, appointed Chair of Division II, will serve on the IFLA Governing Board. Division II covers ―Library Collections‖ and contains nine Sections, one Special Interest Group, and the Core Activity on Preservation and Conservation.

IFLA response to the petition for reducing annual conference fees for members and speakers The IFLA Governing Board welcomed all comments such as those in response to the petition. The IFLA Congress Advisory Committee and the Board considered these http://www.ifla.org/en/news/out-now-december- comments at their April meetings. The WLIC is 2011-issue-of-ifla-journal a EUR 2 million high risk and resource intensive containing ―UDC on the Internet: Theory and venture that requires very careful project in evolution for use of indexing and management. Less than half the funds required retrieval systems” by Mariàngels Granados come from registration fees. The funds from Colillas and many more interesting articles. other sources, such as sponsorship, exhibition and government subsidies are not provided in a way that would be transferable to subsidise IFLA Presidential Newsletter registration fees. As part of the congress Read Ingrid Parents’ May newsletter at review by the IFLA Governing Board in 2009- http://www.ifla.org/en/news/ifla-presidential- 2010 it was agreed that an extensive review of newsletter-may-2012 the congress structures and operations be

scheduled for 2015/2016 at which time all of New Special Interest Group IFLA’s regions will have participated in the new A new Special Interest Group was approved by congress process. the Governing Board in April - RELINDIAL:

Religious Libraries in Dialogue (Interreligious Statements on Orphan Works and Legal Dialogue). Deposit IFLA WLIC 2015 Through its Key Initiatives 2011-2012, IFLA is The IFLA Governing Board has started the working collaboratively to build a legal, technical selection process for the IFLA World Library and and professional base that enables libraries to play a major role in collecting, preserving, and Information Congress 2015 – Region: Africa! offering wide access to all types of physical and

digital materials. Thus, IFLA developed and

endorsed Statements on Legal deposit and

Orphan Works.

2 The IFLA Electronic Resource Guide o Ensure that digital versions of standards are prepared by the Acquisition & Collection accessible and stored in an appropriate IFLA Development Section has now been updated website "portal" according to requirements as thanks to various comments from the librarian proposed by the current IFLA Namespaces community. The document, Key Issues for e- Task Group, this to ensure compatibility of Resource Collection Development: A Guide for IFLA standards with the semantic web; Libraries, can be downloaded at o Ensure that a listing of standards according http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/key-issues- to categories and purposes, ongoing for-e-resource-collection-development-a-guide- standards work (WGs) and publication for-libraries information is maintained on IFLA's website; Translation of this Guide into the IFLA official o Provide advice to the Governing Board on languages, i.e., Arabic, French, German, Spanish, IFLA representation in standards-related Russian and Chinese are under way. activities, including conferences, meetings, If you want to volunteer to translate, please publications (inside and outside of IFLA); contact ACD Secretary Regine Schmolling o Organize a "standards" open program during ([email protected]). IFLA WLIC; o Promote IFLA standards through IFLA Committee on Standards newsletter(s), IFLA website, ICBC, IFLA The newly formed IFLA Committee on Standards Journal and other means; will coordinate standards work within and beyond o Any other matters that may impact IFLA's IFLA and support standards activities in IFLA Standards that are referred to the Committee professional units, principally in sections. The by the Governing Board. Committee on Standards started its activities in January 2012 and will conduct most of its work Chair: Patrice Landry, Swiss National Library virtually with its first face-to-face meeting to take Division I: Tay Ai Cheng, National Library Board place during the IFLA WLIC in Helsinki, Finland. of Singapore The IFLA Committee on Standards is a general Division II: Françoise Pellé, ISSN International IFLA committee, reporting directly to IFLA's Center Governing Board, chaired by former member and Division III: Anders Cato, Gothenburg University chair of the Classification & Indexing (C&I) Library Standing Committee, Patrice Landry. Division IV: Marian Koren, Netherlands Public Library Association The Committee will: Division V: Chih-Feng P. Lin, Shih Hsin o Provide a central focus for standards in order University, Taiwan to raise the visibility of standards within and Permanent UNIMARC Committee Chair: Alan beyond IFLA, e.g., with ISO, AFNOR, DIN, Hopkinson, Middlesex University, United Kingdom etc.; CDNL representative: (TBA) o Ensure the maintenance of standards through a common approach for their IFLA Strategic plans for 2012 creation, translation, version control; ensure A link and four new documents have been added procedures for the initiation, development, to the Officers Corner in the "planning" section of validation and publishing of standards that the Key Documents page are current and widely available; (http://www.ifla.org/en/officers-corner/key- o Coordinate the development, maintenance, documents). These documents detail also the storage and access for all kinds of IFLA strategic planning process for our section. standards documents; o Monitor and propose to Governing Board the A link to the IFLA Key Initiatives 2011- validation of standards; provide support for 2012 professional units in the standards Actions and planning process for development and validation processes; Professional Units 2011-2012 o Provide support for the work of professional Strategic Planning Matrix 2010-2012 activities, policies and communication at IFLA (updated February 2012) HQ in relation to standards; Overview of strategic plans of the IFLA o Support IFLA's strategic priorities, advocacy professional units (update May 2012) initiatives and any other IFLA ongoing activities; undertake strategic planning for standards;

o Manage the IFLA open access policy for IFLA standards documents; 3 Section News & Reports Conference

WLIC Schedule Sat 11 Sun 12 Mon 13 Tue 14 August, 2012 10:30- 8:00-9:30 12:00 DDC users Opening meeting

12:15- 9:30-11:30 13:45 C&I UDC Update Session 15:15- 13:45- 12:00- 12:00- 17:45 15:45 14:00 14:00 SC I Cataloguing Poster Poster sessions sessions 17:30- 16:00- 19:00- Pre-Conference 19:30 18:00 22:00 Caucuses Exhibition Cultural 28 July - 7 August Opening Evening Cycling for Libraries - journey from Vilnius to Tallinn. For more information, see 14 August 2012 09:30 - 11:30 | Room: 3 http://www.cyclingforlibraries.org, Facebook or Subject access now: inspiring, surprising, Twitter (#cyc4lib). empowering Leveraging linked data to enhance subject access Thu 9 – Fri 10 August in online primary sources – a case study of the IFLAcamp - Hämeenlinna (100 km north of University of Colorado Boulder’s World War I Helsinki) / free of charge! Collection online http://iflacamp.eventbrite.com/ THEA LINDQUIST (University of Colorado http://npsig.wordpress.com/iflacamp/. Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA) and EERO IFLAcamp is a two-day satellite meeting in the HYVÖNEN, JUHA TÖRNROOS and EETU MÄKELÄ mode of an unconference that provides a lot of (Aalto University and University of Helsinki, space for ad-hoc sessions and open discussion. Aalto, Finland) The participant-driven approach will allow for CuLLR the Catalog active involvement of all attendees and the HOLLY MISTLEBAUER (Cornell University, Ithaca, inclusion of all kinds of topics that prey on your New York, USA) minds! IFLAcamp will be a place for New Kirjasampo - an inspiring, surprising and Professionals and the wider LIS community to empowering access to fiction meet, share experiences and create new ideas. KAISA HYPÉN (Turku City Library, Turku, Finland) Topic map library = better library: an Thu 9 August introduction to the project of the National Library Pre-Conference, Bibliography Section and of Poland Cataloguing Section, Warsaw, National Library BARTŁOMIEJ WŁODARCZYK (National Library of of Poland: http://bn.org.pl/ifla-2012/ifla-2012/ Poland, Warsaw, Poland) Registration deadline June 30! For translations see http://conference.ifla.org/ifla78/session-117 Fri 10 August

Pre-Conference Knowledge Management Wed 15 Thu 16 Fri 17 Sat 18 Section, Helsinki, Goethe-Institut / free of charge! 9:45-11:15 10:45- Library 9:00-16:00 SC II 12:45 visits Satellite Programme: Standards meeting http://www.arpalazio.net/ifla2012/html/program C&I Tallinn me.html Registration: 13:45 12:00- http://www.arpalazio.net/ifla2012/html/registrati Bibliography 17:30 16:15- Satellite ons.html 17:30 meeting Closing C&I Tallinn

4 Post-Conference Krystyna K. Matusiak, Ling Meng, Ewa Barczyk, Chia-Jung Shih Fri 17 - Sat 18 August Subject headings for fiction in Sweden - a Beyond libraries – subject metadata in the cooperative development digital environment and semantic web Harriet Aagaard, Elisabet Viktorsson Tallinn, Meriton Grand Conference & Spa Hotel 19.00-21.00 Reception in the Tallinn Town Hall Organised by the IFLA Classification and Indexing Section and the National Library of Estonia, with Saturday, 18 August the support of the Estonian Librarians' Association, the conference will explore the role 9.00-12.30 Session 3 of different kinds of subject metadata in the New and traditional methods of providing digital environment and the semantic web, in subject access libraries and beyond libraries. The digital Chair: John DeSantis environment creates new opportunities and new Harnessing the geospatial semantic web: toward challenges for subject access. How could we take place-based information organization and access advantage of the new opportunities and how can Marcy Bidney, Kevin Clair we handle the challenges? Exploring mutual complementarity of free-text The working language of the conference is and controlled-vocabulary collection-level subject English. metadata in large-scale digital libraries: a comparative analysis Please visit the conference website at Oksana L. Zavalina www.nlib.ee/tallinnsatellite for the programme, Coffee online registration form, accommodation options and other conference information. Modeling classification systems in multicultural For additional questions about the conference and multilingual contexts please contact [email protected] Joan S. Mitchell, Marcia Lei Zeng, Maja Žumer Can indexing be automated? - the example of the Friday, 17 August Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Ulrike Junger 12.00-13.30 Registration. Meriton Grand Presentation of Guidelines for Subject Access in Conference & Spa Hotel, Toompuiestee 27 National Bibliographies Yvonne Jahns 13.30-15.30 Session 1 12.30-13.30 Lunch User needs and subject access design in the digital environment 13.30-14.30 Session 4 Chair: Jo-Anne Bélair Users as creators of subject metadata Using authorities to improve subject searches Chair: Sandra Roe Edward T. O'Neill, Rick Bennett, Kerre Kammere Folksonomies as subject access – a survey of Subject metadata development for digital implementing tagging in library online catalogs resources in Latvia and discovery layers Aiva Stūrmane, Elita Eglīte, Mārīte Jankevica- Yan Yi Lee, Sharon Q. Yang Balode The choice is yours! Researchers assign subject Using Estonian Subject Thesaurus in digital metadata to their own materials in institutional environment repositories Sirje Nilbe, Tiiu Tarkpea Maira Bundža 15.30-16.00 Coffee with refreshments 14.30-15.00 Coffee

16.00-17.30 Session 2 15.00-16.00 Round Table Library metadata beyond libraries and text- Topics: based material Are controlled vocabularies still needed if Chair: Yvonne Jahns we have full-text searching? Librarian cornered by images or How to index Chair: Maja Žumer visual resources The role of library (subject) metadata in the Wanda Klenczon, Paweł Rygiel semantic web Multilingual indexing of cultural heritage Chair: Edward O’Neill materials: building the Tse-Tsung Chow 16.30-18.30 Walking tour Old Town (EUR 10) Collection of Chinese Scrolls and Fan Paintings

5 IFLA Namespaces Technical Group (http://metadataregistry.org/vocabulary/show/id /299.html), and the work is expected to be IFLA Committee on Standards completed by the end of 2012. The new IFLA Committee on Standards (see The OMR supports the multilingual, multi-script, above) is now up and running. One of its and version control requirements of the responsibilities is to “Ensure that digital versions dictionary. of standards are accessible and stored in an appropriate IFLA website „portal‟ according to Five years on seminar requirements as proposed by the current IFLA The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) held Namespaces Task Group, this to ensure a seminar, Five years on, at the British Library in compatibility of IFLA standards with the semantic London on April 27, 2012. The seminar marked web”. the fifth anniversary of the Data Model Meeting at the British Library which stimulated the Guidelines for translations of RDF development of the Functional Requirements (FR) vocabularies and ISBD namespaces in IFLA. The seminar The ISBD/XML Study Group has developed draft attracted an audience of 56, and included guidelines for translations of RDF representations presentations by several IFLA colleagues. IFLA of IFLA standards. The guidelines cover element namespaces were mentioned in several sets (RDF representations of schemas) and value presentations; the paper, Declaring IFLA, ISBD vocabularies (RDF representations of controlled and FRBR family of conceptual models in RDF terminologies), and are intended to support (http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/BibDat IFLA’s strategic plan in the areas of equitable a/fyo/paper/view/117/53), by Pat Riva and Mirna access to information and being a global Willer is particularly relevant. Papers and multilingual organisation. They include the presentations are freely available from the common RDF properties in scope, the primary seminar website. users of those properties, the style of translations, and reference sources for ―Interoperable and open bibliographic data‖ is a translations. The draft guidelines are based on brief report on the seminar in Information Today the experiences of translating the ISBD element Europe. A report will also be published in the set and value vocabularies into Spanish and news section of Cataloging & Classification Croatian, and ongoing research into the Quarterly v.50, no.5-7. multilingual Semantic Web by Spanish colleagues. The guidelines have been circulated DCMI Bibliographic Metadata Task Group to the IFLA Namespaces Technical Group, the and Vocabulary Management Community ISBD Review Group, the FRBR Review Group, the The DCMI Bibliographic Metadata Task Group DCMI Bibliographic Metadata Task Group, and the (http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/Bibliograph DCMI Vocabulary Management Community for ic_Metadata_Task_Group) and the DCMI comment. Vocabulary Management Community (http://dublincore.org/groups/vocabulary- Guidelines on using and extending IFLA management/) held inaugural face-to-face namespaces meetings hosted by the British Library in London It has not been possible to carry out the planned on 26 April 2012. Both meetings had the development of guidelines for using and maximum of 36 attendees, including several extending the ISBD namespace because of lack people active in IFLA. The Task Group discussed of funding. This remains an important application profiles for specifying the use of development for the promotion and use of IFLA namespaces, in particular applications and bibliographic standards in the Semantic Web, and contexts and mappings within and between requires further discussion. bibliographic namespaces, before determining related tasks for the group during 2012. The MulDiCat namespace Community discussed more general issues of the The RDF/SKOS XML file for the Multilingual management of element sets and value Dictionary of Cataloguing Terms and Concepts vocabularies, including some outcomes of the (MulDiCat) Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV) project http://www.ifla.org/publications/multilingual- (http://labs.mondeca.com/dataset/lov/). These dictionary-of-cataloguing-terms-and-concepts- activities fit well with the work of the IFLA muldicat is being transferred for ongoing Namespaces group, and it will be beneficial to maintenance and individual term de-referencing inform, and be informed by, these DCMI to the Open Metadata Registry (OMR). Most of initiatives. the namespace is already available 6 Unconstrained namespaces News about namespaces for IFLA cataloguing The development of the mapping between the standards is available in SCATNews: newsletter ISBD and RDA element sets has identified the of the Standing Committee of the IFLA need for unconstrained versions of RDF elements Cataloguing Section to reconcile semantic constraints applied to each (http://www.ifla.org/en/node/495). standard. For example, the ISBD properties all have the class Resource as a domain, whereas Gordon Dunsire the corresponding RDA properties have FRBR Consultant, Edinburgh, Scotland classes for Work, Expression, Manifestation, and Item as a domain. Mapping between these classes is likely to involve the use of OWL (Web Working Group on Guidelines for Ontology Language) and mechanisms currently Subject Access by National Bibliographic under development by the RDF Working Group. A Agencies simpler approach of wider utility is to ―dumb-up‖ constrained properties to unconstrained versions which are easier to map. "Guidelines for Subject Access in National Bibliographies" by the Classification and Indexing Similar issues have been widely discussed in the Section’s Working Group has been published! DCMI and W3C Library Linked Data communities, and there is an emerging consensus that namespaces constrained to meet the requirements of their specific communities should consider publishing unconstrained versions for the use of external communities. Furthermore, there are advantages in bibliographic communities developing a common infrastructure for unconstrained namespaces: o A single place to go for unconstrained bibliographic elements necessary for the interoperability of data triples, rather than external communities having to identify and distinguish unconstrained from constrained elements in the namespaces of specific ISBN 978-3-11-028089-0 formats. (IFLA Series on Bibliographic Control; Nr 45) o A shared namespace for bibliographic Euro 59.95 / for USA, Canada, Mexico US $84.00 communities to use to develop and publish Special price for IFLA members Euro 49.95 / for additional unconstrained elements, such as for USA, Canada, Mexico US $70.00 aggregated statements and other application profile components. Application profiles may Join us at WLIC’ Poster Sessions between 12:00 wish to use elements from multiple formats. and 14:00 on Monday 13 August and Tuesday 14 The administration of the unconstrained August 2012 where our new Guidelines will be namespace can use separate authentication, presented! so that work can be shared without compromising the security of the official Yvonne Jahns namespace. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Germany o A flexible namespace for supporting the rapid evolution of interoperable mappings and other building blocks of the Semantic Web, without the need for close coupling with necessary constraints on elements within a specific model or ontology.

This merits further discussion by the IFLA Namespaces group.

7 News from... The super thesaurus is an integrated and multi- level knowledge organization system composed of thesauri, science and technology terminology China database, normative concept set, and category. Thesauri will include various public and self- Knowledge Organization System developed subject domain thesauri. The Construction in China normative concept set is produced by concepts In 2011, China launched a project of mapping and the merger of thesauri. The Science Development and Application of Science and and technology terminology database will include Technology Knowledge Organization System approximately fifty million Chinese-English (STKOS). The project is supported by the Twelfth bilingual terms. The terms network is formed by Five-Year Science and Technology Support Plan connecting homograph, heteronym, synonym, of the Ministry of Science and Technology of etc. Meanwhile term is the name of concept from China, with total funding up to eighty million the normative concept set and subject thesauri. China yuan. The STKOS project is led by the National Science and Technology Library (NSTL). The task of the ontology layer includes four sub- There are four partner libraries which are tasks. First, investigate methodology and National Science Library, National Engineering mechanism of the ontology network construction Library, Medical Library and Agricultural under cooperation mode. Second, develop the Information Institute. platform and toolkit for ontology network construction. Third, establish experimental Background ontology network using the methodology, In order to provide documentation and platform and toolkit mentioned above. Forth, information service for scientific research, higher establish the research ontology and scientific education and social economic development in research knowledgebase to support automatic China, NSTL was established in 2000, supported entity identification and computation of entity by government funds. NSTL is a virtual library relation from massive information literature. consisted of nine libraries, including the National The STKOS demonstration application will first be Science Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences, carried out in the NSTL information service National Engineering Library, Medical Library of system. The project will develop an automatic Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, process system and intelligent retrieval system Agricultural Information Institute of Chinese for information literature. Then STKOS will be Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and so on. provided to all libraries and information institutes After ten years development, although the in China. amount of information resources has reached certain scale (a large database has been Wen Song established with more than fifty million records) National Science Library, Beijing, China NSTL can only provide a simple documentation retrieval and delivery service. Users retrieval efficiency is low. Information organization is Czechia lacking the support of a knowledge organization system. The information service system does not This year has been a busy and productive one for have the capacity for knowledge discovery and cataloguing and national authority teams at the linking. Czech National Library. Our activities are focused on two main topics: Aim of Project The first one is the interoperability among Based on the development status of information memory institutions in Czechia based on National service in NSTL and China, the Ministry of Authorities, the second one are changes Science and Technology of China decided to introduced in national authority records. launch the STKOS project. The Aim of project is to develop a science and technology knowledge Interoperability in memory institutions in organization system to promote better Czechia organization and utilization of China’s massive For decades, the memory institutions in Czechia information literature, to enable machines to have been responsible for developing policies for ―understand‖ natural language like humans. the acquisition, documentation, conservation, research and communication of its own cultural Project Tasks heritage content. While the mission of individual The STKOS project includes two tasks: super memory institutions has been slightly different – thesaurus and ontology. 8 the libraries have been responsible for preserved as they hold long-term archival value. information access to printed heritage Everyone has access to information resources (documents), galleries for collecting, preserving kept in the archives with respect to the valid and displaying art collections, museums for legal norms. Study records, their copies, or research and preservation of artifacts, and finding aids can be studied either in the research archives for preservation of information as rooms of archives or via exhibitions, lectures or evidence of the creator's activities – the main educational activities1. goal of these institutions has been the same: to collect information resources/artifacts, to develop With the advent of the World Wide Web (WWW), sophisticated systems for describing and the sharing of archives and museums information accessing them and their digital surrogates as with a wider audience has become inevitable, so well, and to prepare universal and global access that archivists, curators and museum to them for general public. professionals can provide effective services to There are some differences in they way Czechia their visitors, provided that the information provides access to information among memory resources be well processed according to institutions: standards.

Libraries have well developed services, well Weaknesses and constraints of archives, developed library systems, metadata schemas, museums and galleries in accessing information: and advanced search techniques; they are able heterogeneity of metadata schemas, many to share controlled vocabularies and authority general and domain specific data structure files; they are able to provide easy and intuitive standards developed to meet the needs and access to information for humans. criteria proposed by individual user communities, Authority control is fully provided for all access variety of indexes, registries, inventories, no use points; interoperability is achieved through the of standardized, controlled access points. use of standardized access points – national authority files. Cooperative projects based on National Weaknesses and constraints of libraries in authority files accessing information in current online environment: implicit semantics of metadata Museum Authorities project schemas based on the MARC format, brief is based on the application of the National information in authority records, an emphasis on authority files in the museum environment2 access points only and not on an expression of The main goals of the project are: relationships among related entities. o to establish the operational model for

cooperation on the national authority For decades, the tradition of archives and database; museums in Czechia has been a resistance o to test possibilities for harmonization of local towards openness to the public audience: thesauri and dictionaries with authority files; archivists, curators and the small group of o to create and keep service capacity for the researchers who are allowed to decide what and maintenance of separate national authority how much to give to the public and what to keep files used by museums. hidden in their reserves. The cooperation model mainly focused on Moreover, each scientific discipline has its own personal authorities had been designed and methodological approach and uses its own implemented in cooperation with the Cosmotron terminology in describing and accessing their Company. Main attributes of the model are: collections. Archives and museums use highly specialized terminology. A wide range of home o virtual extension of authority records by grown indexes and vocabularies are used by the further information fields, e.g. a broader museums, galleries and archives in Czechia from biography, very specialized to very general, but very often is o creating relationships from all identifiable their terminology limited to local (one collection, entities (places, corporate bodies, persons, one institution, one system) practice. terms) used in the particular personal authority record to their respective authority In archives, information resources are arranged records, according to the provenance principle of archive fonds. This means that collections of historical 1http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/archival_policy/docs/insar/ records have been created and maintained for insar10_en.pdf 2 specific purposes such as administrative, ―National Authorities in the Environment of Museums and Galleries - Interoperability with the National Library of the business or legal needs and they have been Czech Republic‖ 9 o describing relationships among related data A basic prerequisite for identification of the (dates, places, corporate bodies, persons, information objects are both subject and name circumstances) through so-called event authorities, in the extent defined by the needs of construction conformable to the conceptual libraries. The goal of this project is to extend the model CIDOC CRM (ISO 21127:2006), function of authorities - unified selection of o relationships to supplemental information elements/access points - by adding related (especially pictures) through URLs information objects. In this way, their [Andrejčíková and Ńubová]3 information and documentation potentiality will increase so that they would be able not only to Register of Fine Art collections meet the requirements of different types of This is the first online union catalogue of museum memory institutions, but to create a much larger and gallery objects, it contains 102,237 objects basis for semantic interoperability of cultural from the 18 galleries involved; it is based on content for all of them. National Authorities: personal names data from museum authority files have been used mainly One of the main results of the project will be a for the unification of different name forms of tool for user-friendly and differentiated authors. acquisition and access of information about these More information information objects. This will also create a basic http://www.citem.cz/promus11/index.php?page= prerequisite to access and share the cultural catalogue content across memory institutions ensuring semantic interoperability at the conceptual level. All memory institutions as well as the general public are invited to use the proposed system.

The project is complementary to projects such as the National digital library, the National digital archive, the establishment of an integrated system of management of collections, and the methodology of tools for processing and providing access to the historical collections in Czechia.

The proposed project builds on earlier research goals, but in addition it aims for a comprehensive construction of an infrastructure for building a knowledge based model of cultural heritage and for the opening of its use in the form of a working Figure: Example of Register of Fine Art collections record pilot.

Interoperability in memory institutions - More information (in Czech): INTERMI project http://autority.nkp.cz/interpi The aim of the project is to create a scientific and http://www.isvav.cz/projectDetail.do?rowId=DF1 technological infrastructure to support the 1P01OVV023 processing, sharing and use of the cultural content in the form of metadata about Changes to national authority records information objects preserved in memory The changes are dealing with cooperative institutions. The information objects represent projects of specialized libraries or universities; objects of the real world, e.g. persons, the main goal is to provide the authority records institutions, activities, three-dimensional objects with more structured information, that is with all (i.e. artistic and technical objects, objects of the details on an entity, its relationships to other inanimate nature), events and performances, related entities, and other forms of names or artistic and other achievements as well as their previous names. New or more detailed access textual, visual and sound representations (digital points are to be created and added to national included), which are subject to the activity of authority files to improve access to specialized memory institutions. collections.

3 http://pro.inflow.cz/how-offer-more-users 10 Czechia – the official geographical English science, especially in geography and short-form name of the Czech Republic in history“ [Jeleček].6 the Czech National Authority File of 4. The Czech term ―Česko― is commonly used Geographic Names4 by all Czech newspapers as well as public In June 2012, we decided to introduce the one audience. The English variant „Czechia― is word name „Czechia― instead of the political widely used as well, it is mentioned in name „Czech Republic― in our subject authority 35,600 books published both in English file. speaking countries and in Czechia.

The name "Czech Republic" is the administrative, We decided to follow the recommendation of political name of the state, while "Czechia," refers Giles Portman, Second Secretary, of the British to the geographical and settlement/historical embassy in Prague, Press and Politics (April 4, unit, which is independent of actual political 2000): "I fully understand your arguments for regimes and is therefore neutral from this point the use of the name Czechia as a direct, English of view.5 language equivalent to Česko. But, Czechs still use the name Česká Republika rather than Our decision is based on Česko, and the English equivalent, the Czech 1. the decree of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic, rather than Czechia. Were that pattern of the Czech Republic in its memorandum to change, we would have no problem at all with to all Czech embassies and diplomatic adapting accordingly. But we feel that the missions in 1993, that recommended use initiative for that change must come from the of the full name "Czech Republic" only in Czech side and not from us.“ official documents and titles of official institutions. "In all other cases, the one- We hope that the acceptance of the equivalent word name Czechia should be preferred.‖ one word term in foreign languages will follow 2. the decree of the The Ministry of soon – see the table below: Education, Youth and Sports 3. „The attitude of geographers, linguists, historians and scientists of other branches to the problem of the official one-world geographic name of the Czech Republic“ saying that "a state not having beside its full official name also its one-word variant appears to be somehow official, artificial, lacking its evidence, intimacy and generally perceived cohesion. Using the political name of one state together with geographic names of the other ones is unsuitable, stylistically awkward, affected and non diplomatic... Generally, using of the one-word geographic name unites, strengthens and consolidates states, and that independently on their social and state system". ... „The geographic name of a state is simply more durable, more permanent, does not change with the change of the state system or regime - and this is its great political, cultural and national significance, not to mention its practical value in

Figure: Translation of the term Czechia (detail) 4 Based mainly on „CZECHIA – the name of the country― http://www.czechia-initiative.com/czechia_name.html Marie Balikova 5 Lutterer I., Ńrámek R.: Preface to the book "Zeměpisná jména v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku. Slovník vybraných National Library of the Czech Republic zeměpisných jmen s výkladem jejich původu a historického vývoje (Geographical names in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. The dictionary of selected geographical names with the interpretation of their origin and historical development"), 2004, p.3-4 6 http://historia.arch.p.lodz.pl/jw37/EUROPE/cesko1.htm 11 Estonia impressive number of updates DNB expects to reach DDC 23 status in about the year 2015. During the last year the main indexing tool in Estonian libraries, Eesti märksõnastik (Estonian One of the main consequences of the DDC format Subject Thesaurus; http://ems.elnet.ee) grew by change was that DNB is no longer able to load 2,000 terms, comprising 36,500 preferred terms updated classes in the German web classification and 17,500 non-preferred terms, 54,000 terms tool MelvilClass. After careful consideration of the altogether now. The amount of non-preferred pros and cons, the decision was made to give up terms or synonyms has increased more than the Melvil in favor of a German version of amount of preferred terms which are used as WebDewey. WebDewey Deutsch is expected to authorized access points in the databases. The be launched in the fourth quarter of this year. development of the EMS has tried to consider the needs of all interest groups. Estonian librarians The arguments in favor of WebDewey are its like specific and exhaustive indexing in order to international use and the ongoing development of provide high-level information services for the the product in order to meet the requirements of users, thus they need a large number of terms. the user countries. The next WebDewey version will contain a functionality called ―number The EMS is available as a web database and building assistant‖ which guides the user through authority data in systems which support authority the number building process and also provides control via traditional authority records. In other information on the number components. Apart systems which lack the relationships between from the fact that information on the components subject terms and synonym control, the EMS of a DDC number is always helpful for the loses a lot of its advantage as a tool for infor- classifier, the German National Library will make mation search. To some extent this disadvantage intensive use of this feature, as number can be compensated by beginning the search in components have been added to the title record the original database of the thesaurus. from the beginning of DDC classification in Germany. Since April 2012 the EMS database has also an English-language user interface in order to offer After it became clear that the German Melvil the international library community the possibility products wouldn’t have a glowing future, DNB to get acquainted with the thesaurus. See had to look for an alternative that would http://ems.elnet.ee/index.php?lkeel=2 appropriately replace the DDC browsing tool MelvilSearch. Finally, DMB decided for WebDewey Sirje Nilbe Search, which is currently being developed National Library of Estonia following the example of former MelvilSearch. Since WebDewey Search is actually designed to have the same functionalities as MelvilSearch, Germany DNB is all the more happy to get an additional feature implemented in the German version that Dewey Decimal Classification enables the user to search by the assigned The German National Library (DNB) continues to number components, and hence by the Auxiliary classify most titles of the German National tables. The German version of WebDewey Search Bibliography using full Dewey numbers. Only is expected to be launched in the fourth quarter fiction, juvenile books, school textbooks, online of this year, too. publications and medical dissertations are excluded from Dewey classification. In 2011 DNB Automatic classification at the German assigned Dewey numbers to about 100,000 titles. National Library In January 2012, the German National Library January marked the end of the era of German implemented a method for the automatic DDC data in DDCXML format, when the shift was classification of monographs — mostly e-books, made to the new editorial system and the new dissertations and books on demand—published DDC data format based on MARC 21. The online in German or English. The non-hierarchical German DDC data was successfully converted classification scheme, which is used to structure into the new format and the DDC 23 data was the German National Bibliography, is derived imported, so that the way is now paved for DDC from the hundred divisions of the Dewey Decimal 23 German. Meanwhile, a lot has changed in the Classification (DDC), with some modifications due DDC, clearly indicated by the about 13.000 to the national focus of the collection or the records waiting to be processed. Due to this quantity of publications in certain areas. So far, publications in PDF format can be handled, other 12 formats, e.g. ePub, will be added soon. Within Italy less than five months, almost 40,000 documents have been classed, among them older documents In the past few years, the amount of data acquired since 2010. The DNB adds over 100,000 published on the Web based on the Linked Data online monographs to its collection per year, principles for publishing and connecting most of which will be classed automatically. structured data on the Web has increased Every document is assigned to three classes with dramatically. Linked data best practices are now a relevance score. The goal is that the highest ready to be followed by a significant number of ranked class be the correct one according to the data providers, leading to the creation of a global DDC rules for at least 80% of the documents in data space: the Web of Data. In such a context each class. When the highest relevance score is Italian specialists organized an international below a certain threshold, the document can be Seminar (2012, June 18-19) focusing on classed intellectually. Also for quality control and interoperability and open linked data in libraries, in order to increase and update the training sets, analyzing standards, experiences and best some online documents are classed intellectually. practices for adopting semantic web technologies Hence, intellectual and automatic classification in this area. See data for one document coexist in the metadata, http://www.linkedheritage.org/linkeddataseminar along with ingested data or data from print / publications with identical content. The origin and time stamp of the data is marked in a subfield. Pino Buizza Training sets and classing rules must be held Queriniana Library, Brescia, Italy separately for each language; the language of a document is detected automatically. In the future, this method may also be used for classing printed publications using scanned tables of Norway contents. The focus in The National Library of Norway is on Subject Authority Data the translation of DDC 23 and the preparing for a On April 19, 2012, the Deutsche web version. Nationalbibliothek launched a new authority file – the Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND, Joint The Norwegian translations of DDC have until Authority File). It contains the data of the former now been editions based on the literary warrant authority files for names of persons in Norwegian libraries, and been specially (Personennamendatei/PND), corporate bodies customized for medium-sized public libraries. (Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei/GKD) and This is the first time we translate the complete subject headings (Schlagwortnormdatei/SWD). Dewey. Major objectives in creating the new authority file were to make the record structures more suitable This is a challenge; how can a complete Dewey for semantic web purposes and machine still be a useful tool for the public libraries. In processing, to harmonize differing rules for March 2012 we arranged a seminar focusing on creating authority records and subsequently to the use of Dewey in Norwegian libraries, based merge duplicate records for identical entities. The on two surveys among Norwegian libraries using Gemeinsame Normdatei is hosted by the Dewey. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, but used by many libraries in Germany, Austria and Switzerland Another challenge is that Norway does not have a which also continually update and manage its common subject heading system. In June the contents. GND records are used for both National Library together with the Oslo University descriptive and subject cataloguing. College (the division dealing with library education), arranged a one-day meeting where Ulrike Junger we discussed mapping Norwegian vocabularies to Heidrun Alex Dewey. We also invited Pia Leth and Ingrid Berg Stefan Frank from The National Library of Sweden to give a Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Germany speech on their experiences.

The Dewey team is planning to make a mapping from the DDK 5 (the recent Norwegian Dewey edition) to DDC 23, so that we can make use of the DDK 5 classification and avoid reclassi-

13 fication. In general we are interested in how libraries‖ was started to guide and support the Dewey can be an interesting tool for end users. public libraries and school libraries in changing their classification system from SAB to DDC. The Ingebjorg Rype project was carried out from November 2011 to National Library of Norway March 2012. Among the questions addressed in the project was to get DDC numbers in the catalogue records from BTJ, a bibliographic Sweden agency used by most public libraries, to make Swedish library systems ready for DDC and to provide training needed in the change to DDC. Dewey Decimal Classification For almost a century, the vast majority of Sigtuna public library decided to start using DDC Swedish libraries have been using a specific from 2012 as part of the project. This made it Swedish classification system commonly known possible to identify and discuss important issues as the SAB system. Since 2010, a switch to DDC with BTJ and Axiell, the provider of the library is taking place. During 2011, some 30 Swedish system Bookit used by many Swedish libraries. libraries have switched to DDC. Among them As a result, Bookit will be ready for DDC in 2013. were the National Library of Sweden and a BTJ will add DDC numbers for nonfiction starting majority of the general university libraries. The in June 2012 for copy cataloguing and early National Library has been responsible for a autumn 2012 for original cataloguing. project where the main tasks have been to translate the DDC to Swedish using the mixed Svenska ämnesord - Swedish Subject model, mapping the Swedish subject headings Headings (SAO) to DDC, and updating and expanding a The subject headings list Svenska ämnesord was crosswalk between SAB and DDC. The project created in 2000 and indexing rules were ended in November 2011. The Swedish DDC established in 2002. These rules were closely resources have since then been updated to DDC related to the rules of LCSH (Library of Congress 23. The mixed Swedish translation of DDC 23 Subject Headings). Many catalogers found the was launched in March 2012. Adding more syntax rules too complicated and the National Swedish content to the Swedish mixed Library decided that the rules should be translation and mapping more subject headings simplified. New guidelines have now been is an ongoing process. established and the National Bibliography will start applying them in June 2012. Since DDC still is an unfamiliar system to most Swedish librarians, training and consulting has The new guidelines are heavily influenced by the been an important task. Webinars are held on a principles underlying FAST (Faceted Application weekly basis, and face to face courses are given of Subject Terminology). Strict faceting based on regularly, as one-day introductions as well as the MARC 21 format will be used - seven facets week long courses. The Swedish DDC team also for topics and one for genre and form. runs a blog with the URL: Subdivisions will only be applied for topical http://deweybloggen.kb.se (in Swedish only). headings (X50) and for names of places (X51).

In April 2012, WebDewey Search, a DDC-based A very short list of subdivisions for topical search tool, was launched. The search tool is headings has been established (the number of developed by Pansoft. The National Library of subdivisions has decreased from more than one Sweden, National Library of Norway and thousand to 47) and subfield x can only be used Deutsche Nationalbibliothek have been working with topical headings. This means that many together on the specification. Sweden is the first authorized subject headings will have to be country to implement the search tool for the changed. Some of them will be reformulated as Swedish union catalogue, LIBRIS. The Swedish phrase headings, e.g. Women - Violence against implementation of WebDewey Sarch is available: will become Violence against women. Subfield z http://deweysearchsv.pansoft.de/webdeweysearc can only be used with geographic headings and h/. There is an English version of the Relative the headings will be formulated as X51 a - z, e.g. index which means that searches can be Sweden - Stockholm. performed by non Swedes too. Field X48 will be used for subject headings for Until 2001, only one public library and no school time and some headings for frequently used time libraries had decided to switch to DDC. The periods will be authorized. Terms for genre and project ‖Dewey for public libraries and school form will be coded in X55 with no subfields used 14 at all. Until now there have been several different The Library of Congress has asked Zepheira to lists for genre and form but we are trying to provide a model (or models) that can serve as a establish a single list for these terms. strong starting point for discussion, and an analysis of related initiatives underway that will The principles of FAST have not been completely be useful to this effort. LC expects that the adopted. Headings for events without a formal proposed model(s) will change and be further name will still be treated as topical headings, e.g. tuned based on valuable feedback from the X50 World war, 1939-1945. Author - title community and a natural progression of headings will be coded X00 + t. requirements as they are addressed. The initial model(s) will serve as a basis for work focused Since so many of the bibliographic records in the on a demonstration system/service which will union catalog LIBRIS have subject headings then, in turn, be used to further refine the constructed according to the old principles it will model(s). The expectation is that such iterative not be possible to change these old headings. feedback loops will eventually ensure a flexible The new guidelines will be evaluated after one bibliographic framework, a robust reference code, year. a supporting infrastructure for deployment, and an effective migration plan to support the Magdalena Svanberg community in making a transition from MARC to National Library of Sweden a new framework.

The Library of Congress will now proceed to organize various scenarios to enable community United States participation that will be broad and include international users and partners, various types of

information agencies and libraries, and library The following is an excerpt of a summary of news suppliers. LC will be posting information as it from the Library of Congress for the period emerges from this initial work, especially relating January through mid-June, 2012. to projected milestones at the Bibliographic

Framework Transition Initiative Website, URL

http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/. Interested Bibliographic Framework Transition colleagues may also subscribe to the related Initiative electronic discussion list, BIBFRAME, from the On May 22, 2012, the Library of Congress Website. announced that it has contracted with Zepheira to help accelerate the launch of the New The Library’s announcement of its contract with Bibliographic Framework Initiative. A major focus Zepheira marks exactly a year of work to begin of the project is to translate the MARC 21 format the Bibliographic Framework Transition. On May to a Linked Data (LD) model while retaining as 23, 2011, former Associate Librarian of Congress much as possible the robust and beneficial for Library Services, Deanna Marcum, announced aspects of the historical format. Zepheira has an initiative to analyze the present and future extensive experience in LD technology for library environment for bibliographic data, identify the applications. components of the bibliographic framework to

support library users, and plan for the evolution Eric Miller, who was a leader in the Semantic Web from the present framework to the future. On Initiative in its early days for the World Wide Web October 31, 2011, the Library issued the Consortium (W3C) and who has also worked in ―Bibliographic Framework Initiative General Plan‖ the library and information science field, leads that identified the requirements for the new the Zepheira team. The company, under Mr. bibliographic framework, based on the Miller’s leadership, has been active in the recommendations made in both the January 2008 development of Semantic Web and Library report, On the Record of Library of Congress standards as well as open source tools to support Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic LD technologies and library applications. These Control (http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic- activities represent knowledge and experience future/news/lcwg-ontherecord-jan08-final.pdf), that are instrumental for constructing a core data and the June 2011 Report and Recommendations model and to support prototype services that will of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee serve as a basis for a new bibliographic (http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic- framework and related services. future/rda/source/rdatesting-finalreport-

20june2011.pdf). ―The new bibliographic

15 framework‖ connotes an environment rather than Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms a ―format.‖ Progress is continuing on the development of Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Dewey Section Head Appointed Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT). Ms. Caroline Saccucci was appointed head of the Dewey Section in the Library of Congress U.S. Moving image project: Approximately 70 General Division, Acquisitions and Bibliographic character- and franchise-based terms for moving Access Directorate, on June 15, 2012. She images (e.g., Batman films; Star Trek television succeeds Ms. Eve Dickey, the former Dewey programs) were cancelled on the Monthly List for Section head who retired from the Library on February 2012. This revision was the result of the December 31, 2011. Caroline will supervise eight positive reception of a discussion paper that the staff members including classifiers and cataloging Library’s Policy and Standards Division (PSD) technicians. During fiscal year 2011, from posted for public comment in August 2011. The October 2010 through September 2011, the announcement of the ensuing decision can be Library of Congress assigned Dewey Decimal found at numbers to 86,712 titles, as a service to the http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/character_franchi worldwide library community. All titles cataloged se_disposition_112211.pdf. Works featuring a in the U.S. Cataloging in Publication (CIP) particular character should be assigned the LCSH Program receive Dewey Decimal numbers. subject heading for the character. Descriptive Caroline will also work closely with Dr. Joan access points, usually the titles, bring out the Mitchell, editor of the Dewey Decimal franchise of films and television programs. Classification. Twenty-two sport-specific terms were cancelled Caroline was previously a CIP program specialist on the Monthly List for June 2012. Terms that in the U.S. and Publisher Liaison Division at the refer to films about individual sports (e.g., Library of Congress, where she had primary Baseball films) were originally included in LCGFT responsibility for all cataloging issues related to because they were in LCSH and were ―genre- the CIP Program, including queries from like.‖ The analogous terms for television catalogers and publishers, and participated in programs about individual sports (e.g., Baseball new metadata initiatives. She also served as the television programs) were then added. PSD and primary point of contact for libraries and the Library’s Moving Image, Broadcasting, and institutions in the Electronic CIP Cataloging Recorded Sound Division (MBRS) together Partnership Program and as the CIP Program’s determined that often the only unifying element expert on RDA: Resource Description and Access. of the films and programs is the depiction of a Prior to working with the CIP Program, she was a sport. A single plot element such as this is not senior cataloging specialist in the Geography, sufficient to deem the films and programs to Political Science, and Education Section of the constitute a genre. The genre/form term Sports U.S. General Division. She chairs the Library of films or Sports television programs should be Congress’ Subject Cataloging Workflow and assigned with a subject heading for the sport Procedures Advisory Group. (e.g., Baseball—Drama). Further information may be found at Before joining the Library of Congress in 2003, http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/genre_form_spor Caroline worked in the Stuttgart, Germany office ts_terms_cancellation.pdf of PricewaterhouseCoopers. She was previously the Circulation/Reserves Librarian at New York Cartography project: On May 24, 2012, PSD Law School Library, the second-oldest law school published a discussion paper entitled ―Proposed in the U.S. that is not affiliated with a parent Treatment of Globes in the LCGFT Environment‖ university. Caroline has experience applying (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/genre_form_glo Dewey Decimal numbers to materials as a bes.pdf). Currently, LCGFT includes three terms cataloging intern at Fisher College Library in for globes: Globes; Lunar globes; and Celestial Boston. She is an active member of the American globes. Through its reference structure, which Library Association (ALA) and served on the 2012 includes a UF Terrestrial globes, it is clear that Margaret Mann Citation Jury to award Globes is to be used for spherical depictions of outstanding professional achievement in the Earth. This reflects the fact that most users cataloging or classification. Caroline earned a equate the word globe with a representation of Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Longwood the Earth, to the exclusion of other heavenly University and a master’s degree in library bodies. Lunar globes is to be used for spherical science from Simmons College. depictions of the Earth’s moon, and Celestial globes refers to globes that depict the relative 16 positions and brightness of heavenly bodies. This usefulness of LCSH in the Semantic Web raises the question of the appropriate treatment environment. of globes of other bodies, such as the other planets and moons, stars, comets, meteors, etc., Experiment to add 072 fields to LC subject which are not yet represented in LCGFT. The authority records. No earlier than August 2012, paper proposes a solution to this problem. the Policy and Standards Division will begin an Responses may be sent by July 31, 2012 to Janis experiment to add subject category codes (MARC L. Young, LC’s genre/form coordinator, at 21 tag 072) to authority records for subject [email protected]. headings. It is anticipated that the addition of this information will enhance the usability of Religion project: The American Theological LCSH on the Semantic Web; assist catalogers by Library Association (ATLA) and PSD have allowing integrated library systems (ILSs) and partnered to develop the genre/form terms in the resource discovery platforms to provide a list of area of religion, and ATLA is also coordinating the the subdivisions that are appropriate to headings participation of smaller library organizations being assigned; and improve automatic heading organized around religion, such as the Catholic string creation and validation in ILSs and Library Association. The participants are resource discovery platforms. For the first time, finalizing the thesaurus of terms that will be subject authority records will include information presented to PSD. that indicates into which of the 34 pattern and free-floating lists an individual heading falls. It is Literature project: The project to develop anticipated that computers will be able to match terminology for the discipline of literature has the data in the 072 field to the data in the 073 begun. Partnering with PSD in this effort is the field (Subdivision usage) of the subdivision ALA/ALCTS/SAC Subcommittee on Genre/Form authority records and suggest applicable Implementation, through its Working Group on subdivisions for a heading, and even construct LCGFT Literature Terms. The Working Group valid headings. includes representatives from public, academic, and research libraries as well as from cataloging For background on the need to include subject vendors. category codes in authority records and the computer manipulations that they should enable, General project: LC’s Acquisitions and as well as the parameters of the project, see Bibliographic Access Directorate managers have http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/field_072_annou approved the addition of the ―general terms‖ ncement.pdf. project to the genre/form timeline. The SAC Subcommittee on Genre/Form Implementation Music Medium of Performance Project will be partnering with PSD in this effort. Developing new means of access to music by its medium of performance is a major by-product for Music project: In collaboration with the Music the music community of the development of Library Association, work continues on developing music vocabulary for Library of Congress a genre/form thesaurus. Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT). In March 2012 the Library Library of Congress Subject Headings announced that it would sponsor the new Broader Terms (BTs) for ―orphan‖ LC subject vocabulary, which will be known as Library of headings. The Policy and Standards Division has Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus for begun to investigate the possibility of adding BTs Music (LCMPT). The Library of Congress has to categories of headings that are currently been collaborating with the Music Library ―orphans‖ – those headings which are not Association on medium of performance hierarchically related to any others. So far, vocabulary as it has been for LCGFT vocabulary. headings for periodicals and newspapers qualified The vocabulary is intended to be used, at least by nationality, language, or ethnicity have been initially, for two bibliographic purposes: provided with BTs Periodicals and Newspapers, 1) to retrieve music by its medium of respectively. The addition of BTs to orphan performance in library catalogs, as is now done headings will bring LCSH into closer alignment by the controlled vocabulary, Library of Congress with the ANSI/NISO (American National Subject Headings (LCSH); Standards Institute/National Information 2) to record the element ―medium of Standards Organization) standard for performance‖ of musical works, as represented in monolingual controlled vocabularies (ANSI/NISO individual music resources cataloged according to Z39.19-2005). It should also enhance the RDA: Resource Description and Access (RDA). Any library’s adoption of this new Medium of 17 Performance Thesaurus could proceed Committee, and Judy Kuhagen, secretary to the independently from any cataloging code or JSC former member of the IFLA Cataloguing communications standard the library may adopt. Section Standing Committee.

Publications from the Library of Congress A new Library of Congress Website, ―Information Library of Congress Subject Headings, 34th and Resources in Preparation for RDA,‖ edition will be available in late summer 2012. The (http://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/) makes a wealth of following have been published since ALA resources available to any institution that plans Midwinter 2012: Subject Headings Manual to implement RDA. Some documents have been Update No. 2 (2011) and Update No. 1 (2012); translated into Spanish, with more in process. Library of Congress Classification schedules Class The Library’s plan to train approximately 420 KZ, Law of nations; Class L, Education; Class S, staff members to apply RDA is posted there. A Agriculture. group of advance trainees will attend classes in June 2012 in order to serve as instructors, The following schedules will be published by the classroom assistants, and reviewers for later end of this summer: Class B-BJ, Philosophy. trainees. Supervisors will attend training in July. Psychology; Class Q, Science. The remaining staff in the Acquisitions and The new classification schedule on Law of the Bibliographic Access Directorate and the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas (Classes KIA processing units in the special-format custodial KIK: North America), currently in final draft divisions will be trained from August through stage, is a subclass of the Library of Congress March 2013 at the rate of 60 trainees per month Law Classification, Class K. The comment period (no training is scheduled for December). Each closed on May 20, 2012, but the draft schedules staff member will receive at least 35 hours of and tables are still available on LC’s Website at classroom training. Once they have completed http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/kia_draft.html. their classroom training, staff will create all their Questions may be directed to Jolande Goldberg new name authority records using RDA, and new ([email protected]). bibliographic records using RDA (unless another content standard will be used, e.g. for some RDA Implementation Preparation at the special-format collections). Library of Congress The Library of Congress, National Agricultural Romanization Tables Library, and National Library of Medicine intend New romanization tables for Khmer, Shan, to adopt the new cataloging instructions, RDA: Syriac, and Moroccan Tamazight and revisions to Resource Description and Access (RDA), on the tables for Bulgarian, Khmer, and Russian March 31, 2013, assuming certain conditions have been approved and posted on the Library of have been met. After this date, catalogers at LC Congress Cataloging and Acquisitions Website who currently apply the Anglo-American (http://www.loc.gov/aba/). The following ALA-LC Cataloguing Rules, 2nd Edition, will use RDA to romanization tables are currently available for create bibliographic records, and all LC catalogers constituent review: revisions for the Arabic and will use RDA for name authority work. The Japanese tables (comment period closed June 13, Library is intensively preparing for training, 2012) and new tables for Manchu and Cherokee documentation, and other tasks related to the (comment period closed April 20, 2012). The further development and implementation of RDA. ALA vote on the Cherokee table is due soon. The The Library is coordinating its training and Cherokee National Council has endorsed the new implementation with the international Program table, and the Cherokee Tri-Council will vote on it for Cooperative Cataloging, both as a PCC in July 2012. A proposed revision for Belorusian member institution and as the PCC secretariat. was received from the Committee on Automated Bibliographic Control of the Slavic and East The U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee European Section of the Association for College continues in an oversight role to ensure that the and Research Libraries, a division of ALA. After conditions for implementation are met. The nine- internal review at the Library, the proposal for member Coordinating Committee is co-chaired by Belorusian was posted for constituent review in Beacher Wiggins, former member of the IFLA May, with voting by the American Library Bibliography Section Standing Committee and Association projected for August 2012. current member of the IFLA Government Comments on the proposal should be emailed to Libraries Section Standing Committee, and Bruce Johnson ([email protected]) no later than includes Barbara Tillett, the new chair of the Joint August 17, 2012. Steering Committee for RDA and a member of the IFLA Bibliography Section Standing 18 The Policy and Standards Division has completed Abridged Edition 15 its project to convert all of the approved ALA-LC Abridged Edition 15 was published in February romanization tables to Microsoft™ Word DOC 2012. Abridged Edition 15 is the product of a new format. The 61 approved ALA-LC romanization approach to development of abridged editions of tables are available on the Website as PDF files the Dewey Decimal Classification. The content of (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html); Abridged Edition 15 has been derived from the the Word DOC files will be posted on that site underlying Edition 23 database applying a set of soon. Future revisions will be based on the Word rules to build the edition with minimal intellectual DOC files. intervention. A link to a short webinar on Abridged Edition 15 is available at Taiwanese Place Names www.oclc.org/dewey/news/conferences/. Since 1999, the Library of Congress has used pinyin romanization in name and subject We do not plan to introduce Abridged Edition 15 headings for places in China, but the Wade-Giles separately in WebDewey. A presentation detailing romanization scheme continued to be used for how we plan to incorporate an ―abridged view‖ in places on Taiwan. This policy was based on the WebDewey in mid-2012 is available at fact that Wade-Giles was preferred in Taiwan http://www.oclc.org/multimedia/2012/files/dewe itself, and was in accordance with the decision of y-abridged-webdewey-20120319.pdf the U.S. Board of Geographic Names (BGN), which also preferred Wade-Giles. 200 Religion Class 200 Religion Class was published in April 2012 in Pinyin has now become more accepted in Taiwan print; the associated updates to DDC 23 were and in 2010, BGN adopted pinyin. LC has introduced in WebDewey in early May 2012. The therefore revised its policy, and name and publication features additional updates to Islam subject headings for places in Taiwan (natural and other parts of religion, plus a new optional features as well as jurisdictional and quasi- chronological/regional arrangement of the Bible jurisdictional names) should now be established and specific religions. A browser based on the in pinyin romanization. Subject Headings Manual new optional arrangement will be available on the instruction sheet H 690 will be revised to reflect Dewey web site in mid-2012. this change in policy. LC staff will examine the existing name and subject headings and update WebDewey 2.0 them as necessary. In November 2011, we introduced several enhancements to WebDewey. These included Susan R. Morris and Janis L. Young display of the history information associated with Library of Congress, USA each class, the inclusion of new icons to identify built numbers (a puzzle piece icon) and Manual notes (a book icon), a new opening screen, extended default search preferences, and direct links to Dewey updates from each web page. We

expect to introduce number-building assistance News around the world and support for WebDewey as a source of user- generated content in third-quarter 2012. Dewey Decimal Classification Dewey Linked Data International Dewey Users Meeting Dewey.info, an experimental space for linked OCLC will sponsor the International Dewey Users DDC data, currently contains the top three levels Meeting (formerly known as the Dewey of the DDC in 11 languages, plus assignable Translators Meeting) in conjunction with the numbers accompanied by captions from the World Library and Information Conference (IFLA) English, Italian and Vietnamese DDC Abridged in Helsinki on Tuesday, 14 August, 8:00–9:30 Edition 14 data sets. We expect to add assignable a.m., Wintergarden Room, Helsinki Convention numbers and captions from DDC 23 in mid-2012. Centre. The preliminary agenda includes updates on Islam and Islamic law, data provenance, Data Provenance Dewey linked data, the Norwegian translation, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, the Library of and European DDC Users’ Group (EDUG) Congress, and OCLC have jointly developed a activities. There will also be demonstrations of proposal for documenting data provenance in the the virtual Dewey religion browser, WebDewey MARC 21 Bibliographic Format (MARC Proposal Search, and recent enhancements to WebDewey. No. 2012-03, available at http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2012/2012- 19 03.html). The proposal will be considered by the knowledge of isiZulu, Sesotho, Dutch, German, MARBI (Machine-Readable Bibliographic Infor- and Swedish. mation) Committee at the American Library Association Annual Conference in June 2012. Staff Giles Martin, assistant editor of the DDC since Decimal Classification Editorial Policy 1999, retired from OCLC in August 2011 and Committee (EPC) returned to Australia. In October 2011, he The Decimal Classification Editorial Policy returned to the Dewey editorial team as a part- Committee (EPC) held Meeting 134 at OCLC time consulting assistant editor based in headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, 8–10 June 2011. Australia. The agenda included review of the proposed content for Abridged Edition 15 and 200 Religion Eve Dickey, head of the Dewey Section at the Class, plus consideration of several papers on Library of Congress, retired 31 December 2011 strategic directions for the DDC. The committee after 42 years of U.S. Federal service. Eve was has held several follow-up electronic meetings to closely associated with Dewey application for 40 complete review of the content for Abridged years, and led the Dewey Section for the last Edition 15 and 200 Religion Class, plus updates seven years. The Dewey editorial team and the to DDC 23. EPC will hold Meeting 135 at OCLC worldwide Dewey community have particularly 11–12 June 2012. benefited from Ms. Dickey’s expertise in law, sociology and education. The position is currently Two new members have been appointed to EPC being filled by an acting section head until a and will join the committee for the June 2012 permanent replacement is appointed. meeting. Pat Riva is Coordinator of the Monographs Section in the Cataloguing Joan Mitchell Directorate for Heritage Collections (Direction du Editor-in-Chief traitement documentaire des collections Dewey Decimal Classification patrimoniales) at Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) in Montreal, Canada. Formerly she held academic librarian positions at McGill University Libraries, first in the European DDC Users Group (EDUG) Library Systems Office, then as Romance Languages Cataloguer/Bibliographic Database The 6th annual EDUG meeting was held on 26-27 Specialist and Coordinator of the Original April 2012 at the British Library, Boston Spa, Cataloguing, Authorities and Database United Kingdom. This meeting was attended by Enhancement Services unit in Library Technical the representatives of the Institutional members Services. Pat completed her MLIS at McGill (European national libraries / bibliographic University in 1986, having undergraduate centres responsible for the use and degrees in mathematics and linguistics. Pat is implementation of the DDC) and affiliated chair of the Canadian Committee on MARC and a members (organizations and individuals member of the Canadian Committee on interested in the use and implementation of the Cataloguing. Since 2005, she has been an elected DDC in Europe). member of the IFLA Cataloguing Section Standing Committee and chair of the FRBR Presentations made at the symposium Review Group. BAnQ uses the English-language ―Classification: leveraging the power of hidden DDC 23 in print and web versions, plus the knowledge‖ can be found at the EDUG website as French translation of DDC 22. Gert de Jager well as more information about this group. currently holds the position of Subject http://www.slainte.org.uk/edug/ Cataloguer, Unisa Library, University of South Africa. He has worked at Unisa Library since 1994, cataloging materials in English and Semitic

Languages and Literature, Criminology, Sociology, Sciences, Religion, Law, and Music. Universal Decimal Classification Gert has also led projects to reclassify the Unisa Library Study Collection (2008-2009) and audio- As we write this news item, the UDC official visual materials (2011) according to DDC. He has annual publication Extensions & Corrections to an M.A. in Semitic Languages and a postgraduate the UDC, 33(2011) is in print, listing all changes degree in Information Science. Gert speaks introduced to the UDC during the previous year. Afrikaans and English, plus has a basic This spring we welcomed a new French abridged UDC and we are eagerly awaiting the first Dutch 20 pocket edition (see details below). We also have Last November the database was made available good news for Spanish speaking UDC users in as SKOS (XML/RDF). In addition to the static that the official UDC website in Spanish is now export download, the UDC SKOS export is now available at http://es.udcc.org/, containing a also available for browsing via an html interface great deal of useful information. which displays each UDC class as a single page with an option for language selection. Both the New in the UDC scheme linked data browsing interface and a single The latest UDC annual content update contains download are available from the UDC linked data several important revisions. The most significant webpage, http://udcdata.info/. change is in the area of 582 Botany with the complete plant taxonomy being brought up to New and forthcoming UDC editions date and aligned with the classification of the The 8th Abridged French Edition Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG III, 2009), CDU - Classification decimal universelle / UDC with over a thousand new classes being added to Consortium. 8e édition abrégée. Liège: Les this field. The new Botany class follows on from Editions du Céfal, 2012. - 449 pages the revision of the Vertebrate class, published in ISBN 9782871303336 2010 and is a part of a larger biology revision project planned to be completed by 2014. In This 8th abridged edition is published by le Céfal addition to this, there are several other (Belgium) and has been substantially updated noteworthy extensions, notably an update to the and extended. The book contains 10,000 UDC administrative subdivision for Belgium, entries and is almost 30% larger than the Netherlands, France, Spain, Brazil and Sudan - previous abridged edition in French. following its dissolution. Finally, there is also a new geological time subdivision. Apart from many new numbers, notably in computer science, religion, biotechnology and The number of UDC libraries in the world environment, the editors took great care in Following a number of surveys of UDC users providing numerous notes, instructions and between 2003-2007 that were mainly estimating examples to assist indexers. This UDC edition has the countries and languages in which UDC is a substantial subject-alphabetical index com- used, in 2012 the UDC Consortium initiated a prising 14,000 entries (5,000 of those are new more thorough study to establish the number of terms). The edition can be ordered from the libraries using UDC. Taking the IFLA World Céfal's website http://www.cefal.com/, the price survey as a basis we contacted national libraries is EUR 52. and library associations to double-check national statistics and collate information about the actual UDC Master Reference File 2011 number of libraries using UDC. After initial data This annual release will be distributed in July collections for countries for which reliable data 2012. The annual update increases the size of were available, we counted over 120,000 libraries UDC MRF to over 70,000 entries. Over 2,200 new in Europe and several Asian countries (formerly classes were added primarily in the Place tables, part of USSR). This figure does not include UDC Geological time subdivision and Biology. Seven libraries in France, Ireland, the UK and hundred classes were cancelled and 1,000 Scandinavian countries, for which we could not records were altered. The UDC MRF is maintained find any reliable national data or information in English and distributed in a series of database about recent surveys. Based on the figure above export files on CD ROM including text, ISO 2709 for Europe, and initial information from Africa, and XML. Although the file is primarily intended Asia (especially India) and South America we are for the preparation of UDC editions, individual estimating a figure of 150,000 libraries using users, or any institution can purchase the license UDC worldwide. Several studies are now in for the use of UDC MRF. The file can be imported progress which will help establish more reliable into a database or institutional information figures for all continents and specific countries. system and used on personal computers. Prices and application for the MRF use license are UDC as linked data - Multilingual UDC available from Summary http://www.udcc.org/licences_prices.htm. UDC Summary (UDCS) was extended this year from 2,400 to over 2,500 classes available in 46 languages (http://www.udcc.org/udcsummary/php/index.ph p).

21 The previous conferences, 2009 Classification at The 1st Dutch Pocket Edition a Crossroads and 2011 Classification and Ontology have been very successful and well attended and we are looking forward to yet another memorable event. For further information follow the UDC blog, Twitter, Facebook - all can be accessed from http://www.udcc.org. The proceedings of the 2011 conference Classification & Ontology can still be purchased online from http://seminar.udcc.org/2011/php/proceedings.p hp Aida Slavic UDC Editor-in-Chief UDC Consortium The Hague UDC Consortium plans the first Dutch Pocket [email protected] Edition to be published in September 2012. This edition is translated and prepared by Dr. Gerhard Riesthuis. The book is based on the standard UDC pocket edition selection of over 10,000 NLM Classification records and is further extended with a complete place subdivision for the Netherlands, Dutch The online National Library of Medicine Antilles and Surinam, and also historical Classification, available at subdivisions for the Netherlands. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/class/, has been issued in a newly revised edition as of April 30, 2012. The edition contains an introduction to UDC, a detailed subject alphabetical index and is 37 class numbers added interlaced with over 2,000 notes and examples 178 class number captions or notes modified designed to help indexers. The price is expected 4 class numbers canceled to be EUR 69. 2 Table G numbers (Geographic notation) added for South Korea (JK6) and North Korea (JK7); UDC Update session at IFLA 2012 Korea was moved to the Historical Geographic We would like to invite colleagues interested in Locations section retaining the same Table G UDC to join us at our regular UDC Update session (JK6) at the IFLA General Conference, in Helsinki: 88 index main headings added Sunday 12 August, 12.15-13.45 - Room 206 578 index entries modified 218 index headings deleted We will provide further information and materials in the following weeks. If you are attending the Contact NLM IFLA conference, join us to learn more about the (http://apps2.nlm.nih.gov/mainweb/siebel/nlm/i plans and developments for UDC in 2013: this is ndex.cfm) for further information, questions, or an opportunity to put forward suggestions and comments. proposals and get involved. Diane Boehr International UDC Seminar 2013 National Library of Medicine, USA Preparations have now started for the International UDC Seminar 2013, which will take place in The Hague, on 24-25 October 2013.

The theme of the 2013 seminar will cover International Standard ISO 25964 knowledge visualisation, navigation of conceptual Thesauri and interoperability with other structures, classification scheme interfaces and vocabularies displays. The conference programme committee will be formed in July and the precise focus and ―Interoperability with other vocabularies‖ is to be the title will be decided by August 2012. The first the title of Part 2 of the international standard call for papers will follow shortly thereafter. ISO 25964 Thesauri and interoperability with

22 other vocabularies. Part 2 will build on the Traugott Koch (DE), Richard Light (GB), Jutta foundation established in Part 1 Thesauri for Lindenthal (DE), Marianne Lykke (DK), Esther information retrieval, which was published in Scheven (DE), Douglas Tudhope (GB), Leonard 2011. Will (GB), Marcia Zeng (US).

Content of the draft For more information, see ISO DIS 25964-2, as the draft of Part 2 is known, http://www.niso.org/schemas/iso25964/ provides guidance for the context in which diverse vocabularies are used and needed to or read here: access multiple information systems. It deals first with structural models for mapping across Dextre Clarke, Stella G. ISO 25964: a standard in vocabularies, such as hub structures or direct support of KOS interoperability. Gilchrist, Alan linkage. It goes on to set out good practice for and Vernau, Judi, Editors. Facets of Knowledge mapping between one vocabulary and another, Organization; 2011 Jul 4-2011 Jul 5; London. including: London: Emerald; 2012. Also available at: http://www.iskouk.org/conf2011/papers/dextrecl o the various types of mapping recommended arke.pdf, together with audio recording and (e.g. equivalence, broader/narrower, etc.); presentation slides. o how to handle pre-coordination of concepts; o techniques for identifying candidate Dextre Clarke, Stella G. In Pursuit of mappings; Interoperability: Can We Standardize Mapping o data management and exchange; Types? In: Boteram, F, Goedert, W, Hubrich, J o display of mapped vocabularies. (Eds), Concepts in Context – Cologne Conference The guidance in this standard applies not just to on Interoperability and Semantics in Knowledge mapping between one thesaurus and another, Organization; 2010 Jul 19-2010 Jul 20; Cologne, but also to interoperability between thesauri and Germany. Ergon Verlag, 2011. classification schemes, taxonomies, subject Presentation available at: http://linux2.fbi.fh- heading schemes, ontologies, terminologies, koeln.de/cisko2010/praesentationen/2010-07- name authority lists and synonym rings. Key 20_dextre_clarke.ppt. characteristics including the basic semantic components of each of these vocabulary types Daniel Kless, Germany are described, and where applicable examples are given of mapping between these and thesauri. VIAF Role and applicability of the standard Part 1 of the standard sets out the best practice VIAF (Virtual International Authority File), a available now for thesaurus development and project that virtually combines multiple name maintenance. Part 2 adds guidance for the authority files into a single name authority networked future, and marks a step towards the service, has transitioned to become an OCLC Semantic Web. Its recommendations are well service. OCLC will continue to make VIAF openly aligned with those of SKOS, the W3C standard accessible and will also work to incorporate VIAF for publishing thesauri on the Web. SKOS and into various OCLC services. ISO 25964 go hand in hand.

This transition from an interim, shared- Project Organization governance arrangement to OCLC having primary Development of the standard is managed by a responsibility for maintenance of VIAF and Working Group known as ISO TC46/SC9/WG8, offering it as an OCLC service is done in which has participants from 17 countries: agreement with institutions participating in VIAF. Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Denmark, The change has been made to assure that VIAF Finland, France, Germany, New Zealand, Russia, will be well-positioned to scale efficiently as a South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, UK, long-term, cooperative activity. The transition Ukraine, and USA. The Group is chaired by Stella also assures that http://viaf.org will continue to Dextre Clarke of the UK, and its Secretariat is have appropriate infrastructure to respond to provided by NISO (USA). rising levels of traffic as VIAF gains momentum

and popularity as a resource for library authority Active members include: Sylvie Dalbin (FR), work and linked data activities. Johan De Smedt (BE), F. Javier García Marco (ES), Michèle Hudon (CA), Daniel Kless (DE), 23 The institutions contributing to VIAF will continue 8th International Conference on Semantic to help shape VIAF’s direction through Systems participation in a newly-formed VIAF Council 5-7 September 2012, Graz, Austria which will provide guidance on policies, practices http://www.i-semantics.at and operation of VIAF. The first chair of the VIAF Council is Barbara Tillett, former member of C&I VII ENCUENTRO DE CATALOGACION Y Standing Committee. METADATOS 5-7 September 2012, Sala de Seminarios del At present, 22 agencies from 19 countries have IIBI, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico, D. F. contributed data to VIAF. Data is contributed on http://iibi.unam.mx/ a non-exclusive basis. VIAF’s goal is to lower the cost and increase the utility of library authority 2nd International Conference on Theory and files by matching and linking the authority files of Practice of Digital Libraries 2012 these institutions and then making that 23-27 September 2012, Pafos, Cyprus information freely available on the Web as linked www.tpdl2012.org data. VIAF continues to be freely available at http://viaf.org/ EKAW 2012 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management October 8-12, 2012, National University of Conferences Ireland Galway Quadrangle http://ekaw2012.ekaw.org ISKO UK and BCS joint seminar Subject of classification - to review how and why First International Workshop on Information and it is taught, Knowledge Management For Developing Regions July 16, 2012 09.00 – 18.00, (in conjunction with CIKM 2012) Wilkes Room – British Computer Society London November 2, 2012, Maui Hawaii, USA office, London, Great Britain http://research.ihost.com/ikm4dr/ http://www.iskouk.org/events/classification_july2 012.htm ISKO-Maghreb 2012: Concepts and Tools for Knowledge Management GfKl 2012 November 3–4, 2012, Algiers, Algeria The 36th Annual Conference of the German www.isko-maghreb.org Classification Society on Data Analysis, Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery Semantic Web in Libraries (SWIB) August 1-3, 2012, Hildesheim, Germany November 26-28, 2012, Cologne, Germany Workshop on Classification and Subject Indexing http://swib.org/swib12/ in Library and Information Science (LIS'2012) http://147.172.223.251/gfkl2012/lis2012.html

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