The Bliss Bibliographic Classification is currently the only major system of documentary classification not to have a web version. Although some draft schedules are available as documents on the website, and machine files are maintained for editorial purposes, there is no version of BC2 that takes advantage of the functionality of the web or uses a common format. Recent work has focused on ways in which this might be achieved, either through the development of in-house software, or through the use and adaptation of some standard representation language, such as SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System). Some interesting challenges are presented by the complexity of the relationships in a faceted scheme, but which, if solutions can be found, promise a higher level of semantic value.
Speakers include Tamara Lopez (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, London)
The BCA Annual Lecture will take place at 3.15 p.m., immediately after the 2009 AGM of the Bliss Classification Association. The Lecture is open to anyone interested in matters relating to classification, indexing, and the problems of subject access and retrieval generally, and you are warmly invited to attend.
Entry is free, but if you would like to come, please email Vanda Broughton at v.broughton@ucl.ac.uk. The location of the meeting is shown by the number "188" in the bottom left-hand corner of this map, at the junction with Torrington Place, next to Barclays Bank, which is convenient for Goodge Street and Warren Street tube stations.
For further details, contact:
Vanda Broughton, Hon. Secretary, Bliss Classification Association
School of Library, Archives & Information Studies
University College London
Gower Street, LONDON WC1E 6BT
Tel.: +44 (0)20 7679 2291
E-mail: V.Broughton@ucl.ac.uk
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