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(currently online: 57 languages)The UDC Summary database contains over 2,600 UDC classes with the following fields that contain text: caption, including notes, scope note, application note, examples. The classification is, however, suitable for use as soon as the complete set of captions (i.e. class description) is translated.
UDC Summary is a carefully chosen set of classes that represent an up to date version of UDC. It used by libraries and library schools world-wide for training and indexing. We invite colleagues interested in translating the UDC Summary into their national languages to contact udcs [AT] udcc.org.
Work in progress [last update: 29/09/2019]
| LANGUAGE | COURTESY OF | UDCS EDITORS | CONTRIBUTORS | STATUS | COMPLETION |
| AFRIKAANS | --- | Martin Van der Walt | Martin Van der Walt | online / updating | TBC |
| ALBANIAN | National Library of Kosovo | Fazli Gajraku | Bukurije Haliti Besim Kokollari Arsim Canolli Jehona Shala |
online / updating | TBC |
| ANGIKA | --- | Mayank Yuvaraj | Khushboo Yuvaraj Ranjeet Kumar Choudhary |
online / updating | TBC |
| ARABIC | --- | Mahmoud Sami |
Mahmoud Sami (with contribution from Michael Gendy) |
online | complete |
| ARMENIAN | --- | Tigran Zargaryan |
Tigran Zargaryan Nora Gasparyan Karapet Minassyan |
online | complete |
| BASQUE | --- | --- | Naiara Sagarminaga Pablo Sanz Apastegui Maitane Sáenz García Begoña Iriondo Altuna |
online / updating | TBC |
| BELARUSIAN | --- | Sviatlana Hetsevich Yury Hetsevich Aliaksei Nareika |
Syarhey Filimonau Dzmitry Kushnarou Kacyaryna Lomac Aryna Sinyak |
online / proofreading | complete |
| BENGALI | --- | Bhaskar Mukherjee | Subal Chandra Biswas Bhaskar Mukherjee |
online | complete |
| BHOJPURI | --- | Mayank Yuvaraj | Amarjit Kumar Singh Ambrish Kumar Maurya Khushboo Yuvaraj |
online / updating | TBC |
| BULGARIAN | St. Cyril and Methodius National Library | Alexandra Dipchikova Antoaneta Totomanova |
Alexandra Dipchikova Antoaneta Totomanova |
online / updating | TBC |
| CATALAN | --- | Ferran Burguillos | Ferran Burguillos Adán Server Edgardo Civallero |
online | complete |
| CHINESE | --- | Wei Fan | Wei Fan | online / updating | TBC |
| CROATIAN | National & Univ. Library; University of Zagreb |
Lidija Juric-Vukadin | Lidija Juric-Vukadin Jelica Lescic Aida Slavic |
online / proofreading | complete |
| CZECH | National Library of Czech Republic | Marie Balikova | Marie Balikova | online | complete |
| DANISH | UDCC | --- | --- | online / updating | TBC |
| DUTCH | UDCC | Gerhard Riesthuis | Gerhard Riesthuis | online | complete |
| ENGLISH | BSI | Aida Slavic | Gerhard Riesthuis Aida Slavic Janis Durack |
online | complete |
| ESPERANTO | -- | Cindy McKee Philippe Cousson |
Cindy McKee Philippe Cousson Edgardo Civallero |
online / proofreading | complete |
| ESTONIAN | -- | Sirje Nilbe | Sirje Nilbe Tiiu Tarkpea Annika Oherde Merle Filippov Tiina Sammelselg Pille Naggel Helju Kaljuvee Karin Kangur Marje Saarmets Ilona Tulp |
online | complete |
| FINNISH | The Expert Group for Data Description | Jarmo Saarikko Miguel Benito(initial work) |
Miguel Benito (initial work) Jarmo Saarikko Jaakko Tuohiniemi Juha Laulainen Rosa Venäläinen Kaisu Leinonen Anne Pannula Marja-Leena Kock Arja Niskala Tapani Toivanen |
online | complete |
| FRENCH | CEFAL | Sylvie Davies Benjamin Peiffer (initial work) |
Benjamin Peiffer (initial work) Sylvie Davies |
online / updating | TBC |
| GALICIAN | --- | Edgardo Civallero | David Sánchez Norma Paz Vigo Llarina González María Maceiras Lucía Iglesias María del Pilar García García Francisco Conde Montserrat Posse Moure |
online | complete |
| GEORGIAN | Georgian Library Association | Irakli Garibashivili | Irakli Garibashvili | online / updating | TBC |
| GERMAN | UDCC | Jiri Pika | Jiri Pika | online | complete |
| GREEK | --- | --- | Sofia Kapnisi (UDCC) | online / updating | TBC |
| HINDI | Banaras Hindu University; DRTC |
Aditya Tripathi |
Aditya Tripathi Vinit Kumar Rajani Mishra Sneha Tripathi Praveen Shukla |
online / updating | TBC |
| HUNGARIAN | -- | Agnes Hajdu-Barat | Agnes Hajdu-Barat Nelli Kontos |
online / updating | TBC |
| INDONESIAN | -- | Sulistyo-Basuki | Mulni Bachtar B. Mustafa Abdul Rahman Saleh Amin Taufiq Sri R. Zulaikha |
online / updating | TBC |
| IRISH | Liam Mac Cóil | Liam Mac Cóil | online / updating | TBC | |
| ITALIAN | Gruppo di Lavoro Indicizzazione e Thesauri dell'Università di Bologna & Serena Spinelli |
Chiara Zara Claudio Gnoli |
Serena Spinelli Claudio Gnoli Chiara Zara Francesco Di Giuseppe |
online / updating | TBC |
| JAPANESE | Special Interest Group for Classification, Thesaurus and Indexing |
Takaya Totsuka | Takaya Totsuka |
online/ updating | TBC |
| KANNADA | --- |
Amrutraj Ravi Benahal | Amrutraj Ravi Benahal Preedip Balaji B. |
online/ updating | TBC |
| KAZAKH | --- | Asubek Nurgaisha Kalimovna Anargul Essenaliyeva |
Asubek Nurgaisha Kalimovna Anargul Essenaliyeva |
online / updating | TBC |
| LATVIAN | --- | Anita Goldberga Eliga Eglite |
Elita Eglite |
online / updating | TBC |
| LITHUANIAN | National Library of LIthuania | Roma Skačkauskienė | Roma Skačkauskienė Dalia Norekiene |
online / updating | TBC |
| MACEDONIAN | National and University Library St. Kliment Ohridski | Senka Naumovska | Natasha Bundovska |
online / updating | TBC |
| MALAYALAM | --- | Anila S | Anila S | online / updating | TBC |
| MARATHI | --- | --- | Rajendra Kumbhar Sunita Barve Priyamwada Joshi |
online/ updating | TBC |
| NORWEGIAN | --- | Randi Østvold | Randi Østvold Sissel Pettersen |
online / updating | TBC |
| POLISH | National Library of Poland | Jolanta Hys | J. Hys J. Kwiatkowska |
online / updating | TBC |
| PORTUGUESE | National Library of Portugal | Manuela Santos Ana Cristina Almeida Edgardo Civallero Martha Bonotto Manuel Neves |
online / proofreading | complete | |
| PUNJABI | --- | Harinder P. S. Kalra | Harinder P. S.Kalra | online / updating | TBC |
| ROMANIAN | Carol I - Central University Library of Buchurest | Victoria Francu | Victoria Francu Olimpia Radu Daniela Ion Ligia Caranfil |
online | complete |
| RUSSIAN | VINITI | I. Markov V. N. Belozeroov |
V. N. Belozeroov | online /updating | TBC |
| SANSKRIT | --- | Mayank Yuvaraj | Amarjit Kumar Singh | online / updating | TBC |
| SERBIAN | National Library of Serbia | Ilinka Smiljanic | Ilinka Smiljanic Natasa Goranovic-Prlja Tijana Ilic Srdjan Slavnic Jelena Markovic |
online / complete | TBC |
| SINHALA | --- | Ruwan Gamage | Muditha Ankumbura Ruwan Gamage Dilhani Munasinghe Ruwandhi Rajansinghe W.M.Tharanga D. Ranasinghe |
online/updating | TBC |
| SLOVAK | --- |
Alzbeta Martinicka | Alzbeta Martinicka |
online / updating | TBC |
| SLOVENIAN | National and University Library Ljubljana |
Darija Rozman | Darija Rozman Alenka Sauperl |
online / updating | TBC |
| SPANISH | AENOR | E. Civallero | E. Civallero | online | complete |
| SWEDISH | Taranco | Miguel Benito | Miguel Benito | online / updating | TBC |
| TAMIL | --- | --- | Preedip Balaji B | online / updating | TBC |
| TELUGU | --- | --- | Arjuna Rao Chavala | online / updating | TBC |
| TURKISH | --- | --- | Emine Öz | online / updating | TBC |
| UKRAINIAN | Ivan Fedorov Book Chamber of Ukraine | Marina Akhverdova Nataliya Chunakova |
Marina Akhverdova Nataliya Chunakova Yulia Nabhan Tatiana Kalinina |
online / updating | TBC |
| URDU | --- | S. M. Shafi | S. M. Shafi | in preparation | TBC |
| UZBEK | Alisher Navoi National Library of Uzbekistan | Vladimir Borisov | Doniyor Begimkulov | online / updating | TBC |
| VIETNAMESE | --- | Cao Minh Kiem | Cao Minh Kiem | online / updating | TBC |
Online translator
For those who would like to assist in the translation of the UDC Summary we can provide a spreadsheet with a list of classes and captions in English or a combination of languages in parallel. If you have data available in electronic format we can align a text extract with the UDC Summary and prepare a spreadsheet for further work. There is also an online UDC Summary translator and in coordination with editors for particular languages we provide a login for those who wish to collaborate in translating a specific language. Please contact udcs [AT] udcc.org.
