The authors give an overview of the present context of the development and use of Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) and describe the current work towards enrichment and improvement of the UDC data. UDC is a classification system used worldwide for organization and information access in various kinds of collections and information services. From 1993 UDC has been available for distribution to publishers and users as a database file which has initially improved the classification's potential for online use. From 1993 to 2007 the UDC vocabulary has been extensively revised and 14 updated UDC files have been distributed, on an annual basis. In order to take full advantage of this electronic availability, new developments should be carried out to support a better alignment between the forms and formats in which the UDC scheme is distributed and the classification's practical use in networked information services. The authors discuss different aspects that may concur with this aim, at the data structure, data content and data transmission levels. Examples include the possible provision of: an enhanced UDC data format; UDC multilingual data and UDC mappings to other subject indexing systems; UDC data exports in various other data formats that can be easily implemented, updated, shared or exchanged. In this context, a summary of current initiatives of the UDC Consortium is provided, notably in terms of renovation of the UDC technological management.

Poster on the principles of classification applied to information organization structures for evaluation purposes.

One question that has often been asked is how many translations of the UDC exist? A lack of recent data is one obstacle to a full evaluation of the UDC's potential application in global information exchange. The question of translation has been raised by many stakeholders interested in the use of the classification. This paper reports on research undertaken in 2004 aimed at establishing the current number of UDC translations in different languages, their form/format and the date these were last reported. The research was completed in September 2004 and was based on relevant literature research, bibliographic surveys and e-mail interviews with cataloguing agencies and library schools world-wide. The objective of this report is to give an overview of translation activity over the past three decades providing additional background information where appropriate. A list of the last reported translations into 39 languages is given. The bibliography provided includes the most recent editions in many languages and a few references in languages for which there is only a single translation. This was included irrespective of the date for historical reasons. The survey was part of independent academic research at University College London. The hope is that this report will raise further discussion, resulting in more data that the UDC user community can share.

This paper describes a research proposal to investigate sense-making processes in complex situations with the assistance of information systems. It presents the design of a sense-making tool to be integrated with a news retrieval system. The proposed user study aims to understand how users use this tool to establish and organize their conceptual models of a network of concepts and relationships.

Thesis (A.M.L.S.)--University of Michigan, 1960. Cf. Library literature, 1958-1960, p. 435. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 6-8).

Thesis (A.M.L.S.)--University of Michigan, 1960. Cf. Library literature, 1958-1960, p. 435. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 6-8).

Thesis (Ph. D. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2002. / Dissertation supervisor: Samuel E. Buttrey. Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-119). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, 1993. / Includes bibliography (leaves 353-377).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, 1993. / Includes bibliography (leaves 353-377).

Le secteur de la santé est caractérisé par une forte utilisation des technologies de l’information et de la communication et par le fait que le partage des connaissances y joue un rôle important dans l’amélioration de la qualité des soins. Cependant, peu de travaux de recherche ont abordé ce sujet dans la littérature. Ainsi, le but de notre recherche est d'explorer le partage de connaissances dans ce secteur, suite à la mise en place du dossier médical partagé dans les établissements de santé en France. Notre question de recherche repose sur la formulation suivante :Quels sont les enjeux du partage de connaissances sous-jacentes au dossier médical partagé ? Comment améliorer le partage de connaissances le secteur médical moyennant le DMP ?Pour répondre à cette question, nous avons adopté une recherche exploratoire basée sur une méthode d’analyse qualitative, une étude conduite au sein des établissements de santé en France. Trois problèmes majeurs ont été identifiés, à savoir le besoin d’une terminologie commune de santé, d’une interopérabilité des systèmes d'information de santé et d’un consentement éclairé de patient avant le partage de ses données sensibles. Pour remédier à ces problèmes, cette recherche propose un modèle conceptuel pour expliquer le partage de connaissances dans le secteur de la santé, ainsi qu’un modèle ontologique qui étend la nomenclature internationale (SNOMED CT) en y incluant la dimension de la vie privée pour sécuriser l'accès aux données sensibles. / Recently, the healthcare sector has shown a growing interest in information technologies. In particular, the Electronic Health Record (EHR) is increasingly being deployed within healthcare organizations. The ability to share EHR’s underlying knowledge both internally and externally within healthcare organizations has been accepted as a method to improve the quality and delivery of care; however it has also raised important questions related to legal and privacy issues.This research aims to explore the critical factors that impact knowledge sharing in the French healthcare sector. Our main research focus is to answer the question of how to improve Knowledge sharing in the healthcare field?A qualitative exploratory study was handled to investigate EHR’s underlying Knowledge sharing in French hospitals.Three major issues were identified, namely the need for: a common healthcare terminology, the interoperability among healthcare information systems and the patient’s informed consents before sharing his sensitive data.In the end, this research purposes both a conceptual research model for explaining organizational value of knowledge sharing in healthcare sector and an ontological framework that extends the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) with privacy dimension to secure access to sensitive patient’s data.