Programme
Programme in pdf format Friday, 17 August 12.00-13.30 Registration. Meriton Grand Conference & Spa Hotel, Toompuiestee 27 13.30-15.30 Session 1
User needs and subject access design in the digital environment
Chair: Jo-Anne Bélair Using authorities to improve subject searches
Edward T. O'Neill, Rick Bennett, Kerre Kammere - Presentation Subject metadata development for digital resources in Latvia
Aiva Stūrmane, Elita Eglīte, Mārīte Jankevica-Balode - Presentation Using Estonian Subject Thesaurus in digital environment
Sirje Nilbe, Tiiu Tarkpea - Presentation 15.30-16.00 Coffee with refreshments 16.00-17.30 Session 2
Library metadata beyond libraries and text-based material
Chair: Yvonne Jahns Librarian cornered by images or How to index visual resources
Wanda Klenczon, Paweł Rygiel - Presentation Multilingual indexing of cultural heritage materials: building the Tse-Tsung Chow Collection of Chinese Scrolls and Fan Paintings
Krystyna K. Matusiak, Ling Meng, Ewa Barczyk, Chia-Jung Shih - Presentation Subject headings for fiction in Sweden - a cooperative development
Harriet Aagaard, Elisabet Viktorsson - Presentation 19.00-21.00 Reception in the Tallinn Town Hall Saturday, 18 August 9.00-12.30 Session 3
New and traditional methods of providing subject access
Chair: John DeSantis Harnessing the geospatial semantic web: toward place-based information organization and access
Marcy Bidney, Kevin Clair - Presentation Exploring mutual complementarity of free-text and controlled-vocabulary collection-level subject metadata in large-scale digital libraries: a comparative analysis
Oksana L. Zavalina - Presentation Coffee Modeling classification systems in multicultural and multilingual contexts
Joan S. Mitchell, Marcia Lei Zeng, Maja Žumer - Presentation Can indexing be automated? - the example of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Ulrike Junger - Presentation Presentation of Guidelines for Subject Access in National Bibliographies
Yvonne Jahns - Presentation 12.30-13.30 Lunch 13.30-14.30 Session 4
Users as creators of subject metadata
Chair: Sandra Roe Folksonomies as subject access – a survey of implementing tagging in library online catalogs and discovery layers
Yan Yi Lee, Sharon Q. Yang - Presentation The choice is yours! Researchers assign subject metadata to their own materials in institutional repositories
Maira Bundža - Presentation 14.30-15.00 Coffee 15.00-16.00 Round Table Topic: The role of controlled vocabularies in the semantic web
Chairs: Edward O’Neill and Maja Žumer | 
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