I have included you in this mail because of your involvement with the UDC > Summary (udcc.org/udcsummary/php/index.php) translation. > This is to inform about the overall reach of the UDC Summary project which you > personally helped to evolve. I also provide other important UDC-related news > > Here are couple of updates that may be of interest: > > 1) WHO IS USING UDC SUMMARY > UDC Summary which now has 51 languages in some stage of translation has become > widely used. > The average daily access to the UDC Summary for 2012-2013 was an average of > 19,000-20,000 hits per day. > The countries that are always at the top of our access statistics are Brazil, > Argentina, Portugal and Spain. > UDC Summary is translated and used not only by library professionals and > educators - there are many other cultural and language communities interested in > hierarchically structured vocabularies. > We have received many requests for exports for data in Chinese, Spanish, > English, French and Russian - these are mainly library schools and companies and > web developers. > As far as we are aware there are plans to publish UDC Summary as a small text > book (print or e-book) in Serbian, Armenian, Catalan and Indonesian. We hope > that other professional communities > may consider the same idea especially in countries where there are no recent UDC > publications. The UDC Summary can be freely distributed and published. > UDC Consortium will try to support such projects by providing texts that can be > used as an introduction and by supporting teh creation of an alphabetical index. > > 2) UDC SUMMARY AS LINKED DATA > UDC Summary as linked data is sporadically used and the reason for this is a > lack of SPARQL endpoint - this would allow access and processing of this data. > The UDC Summary linked data development was > postponed as we are now planning to publish the complete UDC Master Reference > File as linked data (by the end of 2013). > > 3) WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT > The next important development is the interface for mapping between UDC Summary > and other systems and a UDC alphabetical index editing interface. > We are aiming to add a search interface along with better support for > translators and users. > We hope this to be available in the first part of 2014. > > 4) NEW UDC ONLINE > We have released UDC Online - a subscription service for access to the full UDC > data online udc-hub > This is a tool for professionals working with UDC. > UDC Online is designed as a hub for the UDC scheme in a number of languages. > The first language released is English - you can apply for a free trial period > at udc-hub/en/login.php > Information about subscription prices is available here > udc-hub/subscribe.php. > In 2014 we will begin opening UDC Online for free use to library schools and > library training institutions. We have to ensure that we have enough resources > to manage schools subscription and > and we will start with a gradual release. > UDC Consortium is a non-profit organization - all income from this service will > be used to support UDC operational costs, its maintenance and development, and > the improvement > of services to UDC users. > > 5) CLASSIFICATION & VISUALIZATION: INTERFACES TO KNOWLEDGE - CONFERENCE > This will take place in The Hague, 24-25 October 2013 in The National Library of > Netherlands. > The programme is available at seminar.udcc.org/2013/ > The two day programme features a series of eminent speakers covering topics from > browsing classification on tablet computers, visualization in library > catalogues, linked data based visualization to the topic of visualization > in the foundation of documentation sciences. > Proceedings will be published by Ergon Verlag > > I would like to use this opportunity to thank to all of you who made the UDC > Summary project possible. It is a true and outstanding example of a voluntary, > international effort. > > Kind regards > > Aida Slavic > > -- > --- > Dr Aida Slavic > Editor-in-Chief, UDC > UDC Consortium > The Hague, The Netherlands > > Email: [email protected] > > Web: udcc.org > Blog: universaldecimalclassification.blogspot/ > Twitter: twitter/#!/UDCC > Facebook: https://facebook/pages/UDC-Consortium/381069132014213 > Linked In: linkedin/company/383049
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