''The final programme of DC-2008, to be held from 22 through 26 September in Berlin, is expected to be published on 14 July. The early bird discount will be available until 31 July 2008. Please go to the registration page to register for the conference, tutorials and seminars.'' ~ DCMI News 2008-07-07

http://collocate.wordpress.com/ - ''Created by Lois Reibach, this blog will discuss news and trends in authority control, and new uses of authority data. Developments in controlled vocabularies will also be covered.'' (via Cataloging Futures)  

The European DDC Users Group (EDUG) has a new website:http://www.slainte.org.uk/edug/index.htm EDUG has four working groups, each with its own section of the website:1. EDUG 340: Law Working Group is looking into the classification of  European legal systems and topics in ...

Confronting the Future: organising and managing information in the Web 2.0 age 17.30-20.00, 5 March 2008 University College London Cost - free; booking required At this meeting, Paul Dodgson (Records Management Society of Great Britain) will describe where he sees the increasingly important Records Management function going in the coming years ...

David Pattern's article on his OPAC satisfaction survey in this month's Update is available to download from the Cilip website.

A main outcome of DC-2007 is the “Singapore Framework”, a set of documents that together form the specification of a Dublin Core Application Profile. As presented by Mikael Nilsson at DC-2007, this documentation set puts a formal “Description Set Profile” into the context of functional requirements, domain models, syntax bindings, and user ...

Kipp, Margaret E.I. (2007) Tagging Practices on Research Oriented Social Bookmarking Sites. In Proceedings Canadian Association for Information Science, Montreal, Quebec. This paper examines the tagging practices evident on CiteULike, a research oriented social bookmarking site for journal articles. Tagging practices were examined using standard ...

Kipp, Margaret E.I. (2007) Tagging for Health Information Organisation and Retrieval. Medical professionals seek to capture papers which can be located via keyword or free text search in digital libraries or on the web but are also interested in finding material that has not yet been indexed in on-line databases. Search engines provide a ...

Lorcan Dempsey asks briefly: In all the discussion about bibliographic data and catalogs, and about their advantages or disadvantages when compared to other approaches, it is striking how little appeal there is to actual evidence. Evidence about value. Evidence about cost. (Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog, 4 September 2007).

At the recent CHILL RSS CPD Event, I was asked by a participant ''What blogs and feeds are out there specifically aimed at cataloguers and indexers?'' I promised to send her my Bloglines links once my busy fortnight was over, so you can imagine my delight, fishing around for anything I'd missed, to come across Planet Cataloging, ''an ...