UDC Editorial Workshop, The Hague, 21 September 2011: a report

UDC Editorial Workshop is a meeting of the UDC Editors and UDC Advisory Board and invited guests. The 2011 workshop took place on 21 september 2011, in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague and was attended by twenty participants. The focus of the workshop was on the structural issues of the UDC scheme, in particular with respect to the ongoing faceting of the scheme and the way in which this influences the UDC content revision process. The History of the Archive Classifications The UDC Editorial Workshop 2011 took place on 21 september in The Hague in conjunction with the UDC international seminar "Classification & Ontology: Formal Approaches and Access to Knowledge", 19-20 september 2011. This one-day workshop in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, is the second such meeting organized for the members of the UDC Editorial Team and the UDC Advisory Board. The previous in October 2009, was called "The Round Table "UDC Editorial Perspectives", the report on which has been published in the E&C 31 (2009). The meeting was attended by 20 editors, members of the UDC Advisory Board and guests: Marie Balikova (Czech Republic), Miguel Benito (spain), Vanda Broughton (UK), Andrew Buxton (UK), Edgardo Civallero (spain), ingetraut Dahlberg (Germany), sylvie Davies (UK), Victoria Frâncu (Romania), Claudio Gnoli (italy), Agnes Hajdu Barat (Hungary), Alan Hopkinson (UK), ia C. Mcilwaine (UK), Joan Mitchell (UsA), sirje nilbe (Estonia), Jiri Pika (witzerland), Gerhard Riesthuis (etherlands), Darija Rozman (lovenia), Andrea scharnhorst (netherlands), Aida slavic (UK) and nancy Williamson (Canada). The work on UDC is conducted through distance cooperation using available online communication tools and telephone calls as well as email correspondence. Face-to-face meetings of the entire team are rare and the biennial UDC seminar which is normally attended by the majority of editors and advisory board members provides an ideal opportunity to meet. Because of the fact that it followed two days of a very dense and demanding conference programme the intention was to make this meeting less formal in structure and presentation to allow for free discussion.