Aida Slavić, PhD, Associate Professor
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Resume:
Aida Slavic is the editor-in-chief of the Universal Decimal Classification for 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 annual UDC publication Extensions & Corrections to the UDC and chief editor of the UDC Online Hub and is project manager of Multilingual UDC Summary. Aida is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Croatia where she teaches as a guest lecturer on the postgraduate courses of indexing languages, knowledge organization and information retrieval. She holds a doctoral degree in library and information studies from University College London and Masters and a Bachelor degrees in library and information sciences from University of Zagreb. She is the author of over 80 papers and conference presentations on the topics of knowledge organization, subject access, subject metadata, classifications (construction and modelling and their use in resource discovery) and the Universal Decimal Classification.
Aida serves on the Editorial Board of the Knowledge Organization journal, Scientific Advisory Council of the International Society for Knowledge Organization and IFLA Subject Analysis and Access Section.
She participates on the programme committees of a number of international conferences related to metadata and knowledge organization (Dublin Core, ISKO, NKOS Workshops) and is a programme chair of International UDC Seminars, a series of biannual conferences on classification research and application. She is a recipient of the 2015 World Library Leaders Professional Excellence Award from Satija Research Foundation in Library and Information Science.
Fields of interest: knowledge organization, subject access, theory of classification, metadata, information organization and discovery, information integration, Semantic Web
Publications listed in the Croatian scientific bibliography (CROSBI)
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Memberships:
- American Society of Information Science & Technology
- International Society of Knowledge Organization
- Charted Institute of Library and Information Professionals (United Kingdom)