Meetings

EDUG meets annually, and at other times when required.

The 2013 meeting took place 11-12 Apr 2013 at the National Library of Norway, Oslo, Norway.

Minutes of annual meetings

2013 (12 Apr 2013, National Library of Norway, Oslo, Norway)
2012 (27 Apr 2012, British Library, Boston Spa, United Kingdom)
2011 (8 Apr 2011, Kungliga Biblioteket, Stockholm, Sweden)
2010 (26 Apr 2010, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt - revised)
2009 (27 Apr 2009, Austrian National Library, Vienna)
2008 (9 Apr 2008, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main)
2007 (12 Jun 2007, Swiss National Library, Bern)

Presentations made to seminars

26 Apr 2012

Classification: leveraging the power of hidden knowledge. Symposium, British Library, Boston Spa, United Kingdom.

Classification: leveraging the power of hidden knowledge [Welcome} / Alasdair Bell
EDUG / Patrice Landry
Forging links while breaking shackles / Neil Wilson
DDC metadata / Michael Panzer
Dewey Decimal Classification at Linköping University Library - an implementation project / Eva-Lisa Holm Granath
Enhancing resource discovery: DDC and Gaelic: The Portree Project / Elaine Fulton
Mr. Dewey in Scotland or how a general schema is forced to organize the National Museums Scotland's new Research Library: Reclassification Project 1.0 / Ines Castellano
Building a DDC-RVK concordance: local problems, universal issues / Uma Balakrishnan
DDC search tool – WebDewey Search / Magdalena Svanberg

6 Apr 2011

The Dewey journey in Europe – a case study of classification in the 21st century. Symposium, Kungliga biblioteket - National Library of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden.

EDUG / Patrice Landry
The introduction of the DDC as shelf classification at the Upper Austrian Regional Library / Rudolf Lindpointner
The DDC iin 2011 / Joan Mitchell
Opportunities and difficulties – Sweden goes Dewey / Magdalena Svanberg & Miriam Nauri
DDC at the BNF: promoting the subject / Patricia Bellec
DDC in France in university libraries / Anne-Céline Lambotte
Updating DDC Deutsch – a summary of first experiences / Tina Mengel
BDS: the role of a bibliographic agency in promoting, maintaining and supporting Dewey / Lesley Whyte

27 Apr 2010

Bridging the class(ification) divide: the new DDC languages and retrieval possibilities. Symposium, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt.

DDC in Arabic libraries / Dr. Khaled Abd El Fattah (PPT)
EDUG after three years: 2007-2010 / Patrice Landry (PPT)
EDUG and the DDC: how we are working together / Joan Mitchell (PPT)
DDC 340, 370 and 930: input from EDUG working groups / Magdalena Svanberg (PPT)
The challenge of translating scientific terminology in DDC / Prof. Rifaat H. Hilal (PPT)
WebDewey 2.0 / Peter Werling (PPT)
Dewey in authority records: Bibliotheca Alexandrina's experience / Iman Khairy (PPT)
Not just numbers on shelves: using the DDC for information retrieval / Gordon Dunsire (PPT)

28 Apr 2009

Dewey goes Europe: on the use and development of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) in European libraries. Symposium, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Austria.

Introduction to EDUG / Patrice Landry (PPT)
DDC in Germany: experiences and perspectives / Heidrun Alex (PPT)
The use of the DDC at the Swiss National Library / Patrice Landry (PPT)
On the use of Dewey in Iceland / Thordis T. Thorarinsdottir (PDF)
Dewey in Scandinavia : exploring new translation models of Dewey / Ingebjørg Rype & Magdalena Svanberg (PPT)
DDC on the Semantic Web: publishing the German DDC 22 and the SWD as linked open data in MelvilSearch / Lars G. Svensson (PPT)
Retrieval concepts and mapping strategies: the potential of CrissCross for improving access to the DDC / Jessica Hubrich (PPT)
Terminology services and the DDC: the High-Level Thesaurus and beyond / Gordon Dunsire (PPT)

10 Apr 2008

New perspectives on subject indexing and classification in an international context: international symposium in honour of Magda Heiner-Freiling, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Mapping two classification schemes / Magdalena Svanberg (PDF)
Ontological spine, localization and multilingual access: some reflections and a proposal / Winfried Gödert (PDF)
Representation of DDC in MARC21: an update / Julianne Beall (PDF)
Taxonomies as resources: identification, location and access of a "webified" Dewey / Michael Panzer (PDF)
Unified access: a SemanticWeb based model for subject access in heterogeneously indexed repositories / Lars G. Svennson (PDF)
The evolution of subject heading languages in Europe and their impact on subject access interoperability / Patrice Landry (PDF)
Virtual International Authority File: new perspectives / Christel Hengel-Dittrich (PDF)

12 Jun 2007

Swiss National Library, Bern, Switzerland.

Dewey in Germany / Heidrun Alex (PDF)
Cooperation, compatibility, localization, transparency: issues for EDUG / Magda Heiner-Freiling (PDF)
Dewey en France / Anne-Céline Lambotte (PDF)
The use of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) in Europe: recent developments and future perspectives / Patrice Landry (PDF)
Locality and universality in the DDC / Joan S. Mitchell (PDF)
DDC in Italy / Federica Paradisi
Automatic analysis of DDC notations / Ulrike Reiner
Integrating browsing over DDC notations in library portals / Lars G. Svensson (PDF)