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Vanda Broughton
Department of Information Studies
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
U.K.

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Studies at University College London (UCL), and Programme Director for the MA in Library and Information Studies Programme. I teach primarily on that programme, delivering the core course, Cataloguing and Classification 1, and the optional module Cataloguing and Classification 2. I am the author of two standard works in the field, Essential classification and Essential thesaurus construction, which has recently been translated into Italian, and a third title, Essential Library of Congress Subject Headings is in preparation.

I am also the Departmental Equal Opportunities Liaison Officer.

My research interests are centred on faceted classification and its application, particularly in digital environments. The FATKS project investigated the way in which faceted classification data can be maintained and handled in a relational database format. More recent work has concentrated on the structuring and mark-up of BC2 terminologies to support a thesaurus format, and on the way in which faceted structures can be expressed through web representation languages. I have also undertaken an investigation of systems for automatic metadata generation

I am Editor of the Bliss Bibliographic Classification 2nd edition and Associate Editor of the Universal Decimal Classification. Much of my ongoing research is into the development of faceted terminologies for various subject domains in both of these schemes. I am Chair of the UK Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, and Chair of the Bliss Classificaton Association. I was a member of the UK Classification Research Group, and also served on the Committee of the Classification section of IFLA, and Committee IDT/3 of the British Standards Institution. I am a member of the Cataloguing and Indexing Group, and the Information Services Group of CILIP.


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