UDC CENTENARY - THE PRESENT STATE AND FUTURE-PROSPECTS

Survey on the activities going on to develop the UDC into a fully face ted classification system according to the Recommendations of the UDC Management Board. A Master Reference File (MRF) has been created from which any publisher or institution may develop its own versions accord ing to the requests of its clientele. The UDC Technical Director at th e FID Headquarters in The Hague maintains this File. An Editorial Boar d and an Editor in Chief was appointed. Extensions and Corrections are being published. Examples are given on ongoing revision work in the c lasses for Astronomy, Linguistics and Philology as well as in Medicine . Cooperation with the Editors of the Bliss Classification and the Dew ey Decimal Classification exists.