We are very sorry to announce the death of Professor Brian Vickery on October 17th 2009, shortly after his 91st birthday.
Brian was an enormously influential figure in the field of classification and information retrieval, a powerful force in
the development of faceted classification and retrieval theory, and a prolific writer and researcher throughout his life.
A founder member of the Classification Research Group, he served as a practising librarian, research director at Aslib,
and Director of the School of Library and Archive Studies at UCL. He was made an honorary member of ISKO UK in 2008 to
acknowledge his tremendous contribution to our field. ISKO UK members will feel privileged to have heard the masterly
address he gave at the June 2008 meeting. A fuller appreciation will appear at the ISKO UK website shortly.
Draft of ISO 25964-1 "Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies. Thesauri for information retrieval" is now available online.
See the official website.
Further information may be found in the ASIS&T Bulletin, and in an article in the Technology Watch Report.
Conference outputs: Classification at a Crossroads. The International UDC Seminar 2009 entitled "Classification at a Crossroads - multiple directions to usability" took place in the Koninklijke Bibiotheek
in The Hague on 29-30 October 2009. There were 135 delegates in attendance from 32 countries.
Slides and mp3 recordings of these and the other twenty talks are now available from the conference website.
The ISKO UK Seminar Records and Information Management in Transition will take place on 16 September at University College London.
To see the full programme and to book your place go to the event's website.
This half-day seminar is organized in cooperation with the UCL Department for Information Studies.
The first ISKO UK Conference Content Architecture: Exploiting and Managing Diverse Resources" took place on 22-23 June 2009 at University College London.
Abstracts and papers can be viewed from the conference website and presentations and recordings will be available shortly.
