Aida Slavic

• PhD
• Editor at UDC Consortium, The Hague, The Netherlands

Linked data (LD) technology is hailed as a long-awaited solution in web-based information exchange. Linked Open Data (LOD) bring this to another level by enabling meaningful linking of resources and creating a global, openly accessible knowledge graph. Our case is the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) and the challenges for a KOS service provi...

The paper discusses the challenges of faceted vocabulary organization in universal classifications which treat the universe of knowledge as a coherent whole and in which the concepts and subjects in different disciplines are shared, related and combined. The authors illustrate the challenges of the facet analytical approach using, as an example, th...

The vision of the Semantic Web (SW) is gradually unfolding and taking shape through a web of linked data, a part of which is built by capturing semantics stored in existing knowledge organization systems (KOS), subject metadata and resource metadata. The content of vast bibliographic collections is currently categorized by some widely used bibliogr...

The paper will look into different patterns of facet analysis used in the UDC schedules and how these affect the scheme presentation, the underlying data structure and the management of the classification scheme. From the very beginning, UDC was designed to represent the universe of knowledge as an integral whole allowing for subjects/concepts from...

Resource Discovery" findet in der National Library of Portugal in Lissabon am 29-30 Oktober 2015 statt. Dies ist das fünfte Seminar in einer Reihe von International UDC Seminars. Das Ziel dieser Konferenz ist die Erforschung des Potentials und der Nutzung der Klassifikation als einer terminologisch kontrollierten Autoritätsdatei-von einer lokalen P...

Information systems usually show as a particular point of failure the vagueness between user search terms and the knowledge orders of the information space in question. Some kind of guided searching therefore becomes more and more important in order to precisely discover information without knowing the right search terms. Knowledge maps of digital...

The paper discusses the challenges of faceted vocabulary organization in universal classifications which treat the universe of knowledge as a coherent whole and in which the concepts and subjects in different disciplines are shared, related and combined. The authors illustrate the challenges of the facet analytical approach using, as an example, th...

Subject access to bibliographic data supported by k nowledge organization systems, such as subject head ings and classification, plays an important role in ensuring the quality of library catalogues. It is generally acknowledged th at users have a strong affinity to subject browsing and searching and are inclined to follow meaningful links between...

This paper highlights a number of features of the UDC management policy for 2007 and thereafter. Following an overview of the long history of modernization of the classification, which started in the 1960s, with continued revision and development in the 1990s, the major changes and policies in the recent history of UDC revision are summarized. The...

UDC Summary (udcS) is a selection of around 2,000 UDC numbers intended for free use, training and research of the UDC, and is published as an online database at http://www. udcc. org/udcsummary/php/index. php. This is the first time in the UDC's history that the scheme has been made available to any extent for free use in so many languages as a sin...

The paper discusses issues related to the use of faceted classifications in an online environment. The author argues that knowledge organization systems can be fully utilized in information retrieval only if they are exposed and made available for machine processing. The experience with classification automation to date may be used to speed up and...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a general overview with up‐to‐date information on the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) use worldwide. Design/methodology/approach The research combined e‐mail interviews with LIS professionals in 208 countries, literature research and information obtained from UDC distributors/publishers (AENOR...

Networked orientated standards for vocabulary publishing and exchange and proposals for terminological services and terminology registries will improve sharing and use of all knowledge organization systems in the networked information environment. This means that documentary classifications may also become more applicable for use outside their orig...

Purpose: This paper aims to provide an overview of principles and procedures involved in creating a faceted classification scheme for use in resource discovery in an online environment. Design/methodology/approach: Facet analysis provides an established rigorous methodology for the conceptual organization of a subject field, and the structuring of...

Aida Slavic aus London berichtete über den derzeitigen Stand bei der Universalen Dezimalklassifikation UDK. Wobei sie einerseits auf die erreichte Qualität und Moder­nität des alten Systems eingeht und andererseits die erreichte Organisationsstruktur im Rahmen des UDC-Konsortiums schildert. Insbesondere zu beklagen ist nach wie vor, dass im deutsch...

The paper gives a short overview of the history of use of UDC in Internet subject gateways (SGs) with an English interface, from 1993 to 2006. There were in total, nine quality controlled SGs that were functional for shorter or longer periods of time. Their typology and functionality is described. Quality SGs have evolved and the role of classifica...

In the Internet information space, advanced information retrieval (IR) methods and automatic text processing are used in conjunction with traditional knowledge organization systems (KOS). New information technology provides a platform for better KOS publishing, exploitation and sharing both for human and machine use. Networked KOS services are now...

The authors of this paper are focusing on the changes that are deeply affecting the modern society - changes that were caused by an overall transition from one territorial, local, and industrial system into a global, post-industrial, and information community. The rapid progress of computerization, as well as the growing importance of intellectual...

This paper will examine new curriculum developments in the Department of Information Sciences at the University of Zagreb. The TEMPUS project offers the opportunity for planned and organized efforts for curriculum change in courses within the field of knowledge organization. This paper explains the main rationale and need for these changes as well...

Library classification in the Croatian library school at the Department of Information Sciences, University of Zagreb has an important place in the department's curriculum. This is due to the fact that classification is the most important indexing language in Croatian libraries, documentation centres and services and its role has not been undermine...

Although plan and programme of Information Sciences Department in Eightees was made by the English and American model, it is still not very clear wheather this trend of development should be followed. Every planning concept of education is included in wider interrelated frameworks of education in whole. What is specific for Croatia is that average...

Access to educational material has become an important issue for many stakeholders and the focus of much research worldwide. Resource discovery in educational gateways is usually based on metadata and this is an area of important developments. Resource metadata has a central role in the management of educational material and as a result there are s...

This paper starts with an overview of why and how online learning material is being reused. This sets the context for a detailed description of EASEL (Educator Access to Services in the Electronic Landscape, http://www.fdgroup.com/easel). This European project is directed towards technological solutions for the reuse and sharing of teaching and lea...

The paper examines the existing concept of information professionals' education in the curriculum of The Department of Information Sciences at the University of Zagreb. This Department has always had specific views in the field of information sciences, that comprises four different profiles of information professionals within its undergraduate and...

This paper is originally published in Croatian, in January 2005. Full reference: Slavic, A. Semantički Web, sustavi za organizaciju znanja i mrežni standardi [Knowledge Organization Systems, Network Standards and Semantic Web]. IN: Informacijske znanosti u procesu promjena. Zagreb: Zavod za informacijske studije, 2005. pp. 5-22. ABSTRACT: Aimed at...

The paper explains the basic functions of browsing and searching that need to be supported in relation to analytico-synthetic classifications such as Universal Decimal Classification (UDC), irrespective of any specific, real-life implementation. UDC is an example of a semi-faceted system that can be used, for instance, for both post-coordinate sear...

The paper highlights some aspects of the UDC management policy for 2007 and onwards. Following an overview of the long history of modernization of the classification, which started in the 1960s and has influenced the scheme's revision and development since 1990, major changes and policies from the recent history of the UDC revision are summarized....

The paper reports on a pilot study observing the level to which library classification, Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) specifically, is exploited in searching and browsing library OPACs. The study was conducted in 2004-2005. A selection of 30 Web OPACs using UDC from 22 countries were observed. The OPACs were representative of 5 in-house an...

The UDC class 1 Philosophy. Psychology has remained unchanged for more than forty years. The most obvious problem with the class is an anachronistic intercalation of psychology in the middle of the class of philosophy (Task force for UDC system development, 1990), one of the still uncorrected remainders of structural problems inherited from Dewey D...

Bibliothekarische Klassifikation hat im Lehrplan der kroatischen Bibliotheksschule am Fachbereich für Informationswissenschaft in der Universität Zagreb einen wichtigen Platz. Dies ist darauf zurückzuführen, dass die Klassifikation das wichtigste Instrument zur inhaltlichen Erschließung in den kroatischen Bibliotheken, Dokumentationszentren und -di...

The UDC is attractive to different stakeholders across the information sector because of its wide- spread application, large vocabulary and availability in an electronic format. Modern information retrieval systems have the need but also the capacity to support flexible and interactive retrieval systems. The role of classification in such systems i...

Sažetak Internet se ubrzano kreće prema novom razvojnom stupnju (Internet 2) zasno-vanom na WWW arhitekturi poznatoj pod nazivom Semantički Web. Ključne riječi: semantički Web, ontologija, sustavi za organizaciju znanja, kontroliran rječnici, pristup i razmjena rječnika, mrežni stan-dardi, formati.