International Dewey Users Meeting16 August 2011IFLASan .ppt

1、,International Dewey Users Meeting 16 August 2011 IFLA San Juan,Joan S. Mitchell Editor in Chief, DDC OCLC mitcheljoclc.org,DDC 23: Its Here!,DDC 23 is here! Start using it!,Your role,DDC 23 is dedicated to the worldwide Dewey Community!,Outline,Overview Three case studies Dewey linked data Learning

2、 opportunities Keeping up with the DDC,Overview of DDC 23,Major updates in religion, law, education, food and clothing, graphic arts, cinematography and videography, ancient and modern world Overhaul of groups of people A host of new numbers (e.g., bullying, cloud computing, end of Mubrak administra

3、tion) Structural changes to support machine display and retrieval, and classifier efficiency,Case study: 370 Education,370 Education,Generalize from an international viewpoint: Levels of education Kinds of schools Specific subjects in primary education Policy issues in education,Levels of education

4、(1),372 Primary education (Elementary education) 373 Secondary education 374 Adult education 378 Higher education (Tertiary education),Levels of education (2),372.24 Specific levels of primary education 372.241 Lower levelClass here grades 13 372.242 Intermediate levelFormer heading: Upper levelClas

5、s here grades 46. . . 372(.243) Upper level(Optional number; prefer 373.236)Class here lower secondary level . . .,Kinds of schools,371.05 Public schools distinguished by source of funding, locus of control, and mandate formerly 371.01Class here academy schools, charter schools,Specific subjects in

6、primary education (1),372.6 Language arts (Communication skills) New option in English-language edition:(Option: Class here language arts (communication skills) in a language other than English; in that case, class language arts (communication skills) in English in 372.6521)New option in German-lang

7、uage edition:(Option: Hier auch Sprachkompetenz (Kommunikationsfertigkeiten) in einer anderen Sprache als Deutsch; klassifiziere in diesem Fall Sprachkompetenz (Kommunikationsfertigkeiten) in Deutsch in 372.6531),Specific subjects in primary education (2),372.652.659 Specific foreign, official, seco

8、nd languagesSubdivisions are added for any or all topics in headingAdd to base number 372.65 notation 29 from Table 6, e.g., Spanish 372.6561, English as a second language 372.6521; then add further as instructed under 372.3-372.8, e.g., methods of teaching Spanish 372.6561044 follows: 04 General to

9、pics041 Language arts in foreign, official, second languages Add to 041 the notation following 372.6 in 372.61-372.64, e.g., Spanish composition 372.656104123042 Place of subject in education. . .,Policy issues in education,379.1282.1289 Support by specific regional intergovernmental organizationsAd

10、d to base number 379.128 the numbers following 341.24 in 341.242-341.249, e.g., support by European Union 379.12822,Case study: Groups of people,Groups of people (1),“kinds of persons” “groups of people”T108 Groups of people305 Groups of people “persons treatment” “biography”T109 History, geographic

11、 treatment, biographyTable 2 Geographic Areas, Historical Periods, Biography,Groups of people (2),T1081 People by gender or sexT10811 MenT10865 People by marital statusT10867 Transgender and intersex peopleT109250928 New numbers for collected biography of groups of people,Groups of people (3),Ripple

12、 effect of changes throughout DDC 23, especially for groups of people in 155, 305306, 331, and 362 Reversal in preference order in 302307 to topic/group, e.g., friendship in women 302.34082, not 305.4 Women,Case study: Dual headings,Dual headings: Definition,A heading with two separate terms, the fi

13、rst of which is the main topic and the second of which is the major subordinate topic, e.g., 570 Life sciences Biology Main topic and major subordinate topic share the same number and most of the subdivisions,Dual headings: DDC 22,004006 Data processing Computer science570 Life sciences Biology943 C

14、entral Europe Germany,Dual headings: DDC 23,004006 Computer science 004006 Data processing Computer science570 Biology570 Life sciences Biology943 Germany and neighboring central European countries943 Central Europe Germany,Dewey Linked Data,dewey.info,Access to the top three levels of the DDC in el

15、even languages Access to Abridged Edition 14 (assignable numbers and captions) in three languages Actionable URIs for every class Classification semantics encoded in SKOS Representations for machines (RDF) and for humans (XHTML+RDFa) Data is reusable under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license,Linked

16、data in dewey.info (1),http:/dewey.info/class/005/about,Linked data in dewey.info (2),http:/dewey.info/class/305.895/a14/about,Linked data in dewey.info (3),http:/dewey.info/class/305.895/a14/about.rdf,Learning opportunities: Online resources,DDC 23 webinar http:/ 025.431: The Dewey Blog http:/ DDC

17、23 Introduction, Glossary, New Features, and Relocations and Discontinuations available for download at: http:/www.oclc.org/us/en/dewey/versions/print/default.htm Mini webinars and updated training materials coming in late 2011!,Learning opportunities: Workshops and seminars,Whats New with DDC and W

18、hat Do I Need to Know (9 September, Schaumberg, IL) http:/ Strength in numbers: Going local, global, and mobile with Dewey (15 September, London) http:/www.cilip.org.uk/dewey2011/pages/default.aspx Dewey in Scotland (16 September, Edinburgh) http:/communities.cilip.org.uk/blogs/catalogueandindex/arc

19、hive/2011/08/11/dewey-in-scotland-the-dewey-decimal-classification-and-scotland-s-information.aspx The Future of DDC is Now!: Uncovering the Mysteries of DDC 23 (15 November, Fort Wayne, IN) http:/www.ilfonline.org/events/2011/11/14/general/2011-ilf-annual-conference/,Keeping up with the DDC,Every u

20、pdate is automatically included in WebDewey 2.0 Errata addressing significant typos in DDC 23 available at: http:/www.oclc.org/us/en/dewey/versions/print/default.htm New and Changed Entries retired Short-term replacement: PDF versions of updated schedule and table entries (link under Updates coming soon) Permanent change-notification solution coming inside WebDewey 2.0,Sample update: 363.41_20110727_DDC 23.pdf,Thank You!,Some useful links,