"New Perspectives on Subject Indexing and Classification in an International Context"

International Symposium in Honour of Magda Heiner-Freiling

at the German National Library, Adickesallee 1, 60322 Frankfurt am Main
on April 10, 2008, 11:00-16:30 p.m.

The German National Library in collaboration with OCLC invited the international library community to attend the symposium held to honour the library's late colleague and head of subject cataloguing Magda Heiner-Freiling.

For more than 30 years, Magda Heiner-Freiling was instrumental in fostering the development of the library and its international cooperation. The symposium particularly acknowledged her work and achievement in introducing DDC as the German National Library's classification system as well as her commitment to the issue of subject heading languages.

Programme

11:00-11:15
Dr. Elisabeth Niggemann (German National Library)
Opening

11:15-11:45
Joan Mitchell (OCLC)
The Impact of Magda Heiner-Freiling and the German Translation on the DDC

11:55-12:25
Magdalena Svanberg (National Library of Sweden)
Mapping Two Classification Schemes - DDC and SAB

12:35-13:05
Winfried Gödert (University of Applied Sciences, Cologne)
Ontological Spine, Localization and Multilingual Access: Some Reflections and a Proposal

13:15-14:15
Lunch break & coffee
sponsored by OCLC

14:15-15:10
Panel by
Julianne Beall (Library of Congress)
Representation of DDC in MARC 21: An Update
&
Michael Panzer (OCLC)
Taxonomies as Resources: Identification, Location and Access of a 'Webified' Dewey
&
Lars G. Svensson (German National Library)
Unified Access: A SemanticWeb Based Model for Subject Navigation in Heterogeneously Indexed Repositories

15:20-15:50
Patrice Landry (National Library of Switzerland)
The Evolution of Subject Heading Languages in Europe and their Impact on Subject Access Interoperability

16:00-16:20
Christel Hengel-Dittrich (German National Library)
Virtual International Authority File - New Perspectives

Each presentation was followed by a brief discussion.

Presenter: Yvonne Jahns (German National Library)

All presentations will be published together with lots of other interesting contributions in the field of subject cataloguing by July 2008. If you are interested in this publication, please contact mailto:c.junker@dnb.de