International Conference: Encyclopedistics 2020 – Achievements and Challenges

On the occasion of its 70th founding anniversary, the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography is organising the international conference Encyclopedistics 2020 – Achievements and Challenges.

The topics of the conference are as follows:

a) Digital encyclopedias and knowledge networking:

• Online encyclopedias and other reference works

• Thematic portals

• Digitisation and linking digital sources

• Multimedia and interactive content

• The role of digital reference works in science and education

• Organisation, networking, and dissemination of knowledge

• Encyclopedias in the age of greater accessibility of information

• Digital lexicography and digital humanities

b) Fields and terminology in encyclopedistics and lexicography

• Theoretical fundamentals (methods, approaches, specificities)

• Concepts and production of professional encyclopedias

• Treatment of specific fields in general/national encyclopedias

• Selected topics from specific fields

• Mircropedic and macropedic approach

• Terminology between description and prescription

• Terminology between internationalism and purism

• Terminology in a diachronic perspective

c) Biography in encyclopedias

• Conceptions of biographic encyclopedias and lexicons

• Biographies in professional, national, and general encyclopedias

• Biographies in regard to specific fields

• Problems regarding biographic research and presentation

• Bibliography