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The Genre/Form Working Group of the IFLA Subject Analysis and Access Section is pleased to announce the posting of “Bibliographic References and Vocabularies Related to Genre/Form.”
We kindly invite you to the IFLA Satellite Meeting organised by the IFLA Bibliography, Subject Analysis and Access, and Cataloguing Sections and Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België (KBR). The conference will take place in Brussels at KBR, the Royal Library of Belgium, on 18-19 August 2023.
The IFLA Cataloguing, Information Technology and Subject Analysis and Access Sections are seeking proposals for papers to be presented at their Joint Open Session at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2023 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
The IFLA Subject Analysis and Access (SAA) Section is seeking proposals for papers to be presented at their Open Session at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress 2023 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Theme: "Identifiers for identities: Rectifying the (mis)representation of demographic groups". The Deadline for proposal submissions (300-500 words) is 1 May 2023.
In alignment with our February newsletter theme, partnerships, we explore the relationship between IFLA’s metadata Sections - Bibliography (BIB), Cataloguing (CAT), and Subject Analysis and Access (SAA) - how these IFLA sections are related and work together, and how their work intersects with the work of IFLA’s Review Groups: Bibliographic Conceptual Models (BCM), ISBD, LIDATEC, and UNIMARC. We also highlight their individual Section projects, which contribute globally to the area of the bibliographic universe.
The IFLA Subject Analysis and Access Section’s Working Group on Automated Indexing organized the webinar titled "Where Do We Meet? Perspectives from Software Developers and Subject Specialists on Creating Machine Learning Projects" on November 9, 2022. Presentation slides are now available.
The IFLA Subject Analysis and Access Section’s Working Group on Automated Indexing is organizing the webinar titled "Where Do We Meet? Perspectives from Software Developers and Subject Specialists on Creating Machine Learning Projects". Webinar will be organized on Wednesday, Nov 9, 2022, 14:00 - 18:00 CET.
Subject Analysis and Access Section will be at WLIC 2022 with the Open session titled Semantic Shift and Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS). Join us on Wednesday, July 27, 11:15 - 12:30, Liffey Hall 1.
The IFLA Subject Analysis and Access Standing Committee will hold the first of two business meetings in person during IFLA WLIC 2022 on 25 July at 11:15-13:15 IST. (Wicklow Meeting Room 5)
Presentations from the webinar “Fascinating Facets: Recent Developments in Genre and Form Vocabularies” organized by the Subject Analysis and Access Genre/Form Working Group on May 19, 2022 are available online.
The IFLA Metadata Newsletter June 2022 issue is now published.
Recording and slides from the May 27, 2021 webinar are available.
Cancellation - Open Session 2020