KOS Workshop Instructors

Sylvie Davies is a retired lecturer in Information Management at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, and a member of the UDC Editorial Team. Her teaching areas included controlled vocabularies, taxonomies and bibliographic classification. Her research interests lie in the area of cross-cultural communication (at national and corporate level) of organised knowledge with a focus of multilingual and multicultural thesauri. In Aberdeen, she has been involved in aspects of information management in the oil and gas industry via the delivery of taxonomy workshops and cross-industry forum discussion on the role of information management professionals in that industry.

Workshop: Representing concepts in subject indexing: challenges of vocabulary control

Aida Slavic is the Editor-in-Chief of the Universal Decimal Classification, owned by the UDC Consortium in The Hague (Netherlands). She is responsible for the development and the maintenance of the scheme and is editor of the official UDC publication Extensions & Corrections to the UDC, chief editor of the UDC Online Hub and project manager of Multilingual UDC Summary. Aida is also an adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Croatia where she teaches on the postgraduate courses of indexing languages, knowledge organization and information retrieval.

Workshop: Introduction to Universal Decimal Classification