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What else can you do with Dewey?

Diane Vizine-Goetz

OCLC Research

International Dewey Users Group, IFLA, 16 August 2011, San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Outline

• Classify

• Kindred Works

• Dewey/BISAC initiatives


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Classify

Experimental service from OCLC Research

• http://classify.oclc.org/

Leverages FRBR, classification assignments in WorldCat and other OCLC data

Offers class numbers for books, videos, CDs and other materials

• User interface for day-to-day tasks

• Machine service for batch processing

Freely-available

Updated quarterly

Classify page presents:

• Title (work level)• Author (work level)• Formats available• Number of editions• Number of library

holdings• Suggested class

numbers based on holdings (Dewey, Library of Congress, National Library of Medicine)

• FAST Headings• Editions List (Title, Author,

Format, Holdings, Language, OCLC Number, Date, Class numbers)


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Classify in Connexion


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Top Interface Users (last 30 days)

1. India2. United Kingdom3. Sweden4. Canada5. Germany6. Ecuador7. Pakistan8. South Africa9. Uganda10. Australia

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Kindred Works

• What is it?• Content-based recommender service

• Leverages Classify, DDC, & WorldCat API• Consists of a demonstration interface & API• Accepts OCLC number or ISBN as input


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Kindred Works•What you get?

• A list of related resources (title, author, isbns)

• Results can be limited to the holdings of a given institution


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How it works

•Search Classify by OCLC number or ISBN to get a Dewey number

•Determine if the work is fiction or nonfiction•Inspect the seed record to determine

• Adult or juvenile

• Language of content

• Textual resource

•If nonfiction, formulate a query from DDC + audience level + language [+] institution code

•If fiction, formulate a query from DDC + audience + language + genre + subjects [+] institution code


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Examples (fiction)ThisWeek

LastWeek

Combined Print & E-Book Fiction Weeks on List

1 1THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Penguin Group.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.

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2AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, by Tom Clancy. (Penguin Group.) Maxwell Moore pursues the terrorists who killed his C.I.A. colleagues in a bomb attack in Pakistan.

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3 3WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen. (Algonquin.) After his parents are killed in a car accident, a young veterinary student — and an elephant — save a Depression-era circus.

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4ONE SUMMER, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central.) After the death of his devoted wife, a father struggles to keep his family together, and in the process learns to love again.

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5 8A GAME OF THRONES, by George R. R. Martin. (Random House.) In the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are mustering.

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6 4STATE OF WONDER, by Ann Patchett. (HarperCollins.) In the Amazon basin, a medical researcher searches for her former mentor, a despotic scientist who is developing a miracle fertility drug.

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7CARTE BLANCHE, by Jeffery Deaver. (Simon & Schuster.) A young James Bond, on a global mission for a unit of British security, must foil a plot to kill thousands of citizens.

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8 710TH ANNIVERSARY, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown.) Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club race to find a missing baby.

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9 6BURIED PREY, by John Sandford. (Penguin Group.) The Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport investigates the murders of two girls who were kidnapped in 1985.

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10FOLLY BEACH, by Dorothea Benton Frank. (HarperCollins.) A widow returns to her childhood home in South Carolina and finds love and a literary puzzle.

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11BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP, by S. J. Watson. (HarperCollins.) After a mysterious accident, an amnesiac cannot remember her past or form new memories.

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12THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf Doubleday.) A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress 40 years earlier; the first volume in the Millennium trilogy.

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WorldCat


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Examples (nonfiction)

This Week

Last Week

Combined Print & E-Book FictionWeekson List

1 1HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. (Thomas Nelson.) A father recounts his 3-year-old son’s encounter with Jesus and the angels during an appendectomy.

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2THE ORIGINAL ARGUMENT, by Glenn Beck with Joshua Charles. (Threshold Editions.) The Federalists’ case for the Constitution, adapted for the 21st century. (†)

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3 2IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS, by Erik Larson. (Crown.) This portrait of Berlin during the rise of the Nazis centers on the experiences of William E. Dodd, who became the U.S. ambassador to Germany in 1933, and his daughter, Martha.

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4 5UNBROKEN, by Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House.) An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II.

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5 7THE GREATER JOURNEY, by David McCullough. (Simon & Schuster.) The historian explores the extensive intellectual legacy that France settled on its 19th-century visitors.

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Kindred Works

•Next Steps• Release as a prototype• Collect ratings data• Continue to refine the recommender logic


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OCLC BISAC Initiatives

•OCLC researchers and Dewey editors are collaborating on a project to create authority records for BISAC subject headings and add Dewey numbers to the records

•BISAC subject headings, including usage notes, are coded according to the MARC 21 format for authority data

•Dewey numbers from DDC 23, the latest edition of Dewey, are applied to the records by the Dewey team


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Exploiting Relationships between BISAC and Other Resources

1. Dewey number2. BISAC heading3. BISAC code


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Get BISAC headings based on Dewey number

Dewey number: 794

Mapped BISAC terms to 794*COMPUTERS—Programming—Games

GAMES—Board

GAMES—Board—Checkers

GAMES—Board—Chess

GAMES—Video—Electronic

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BISAC headings add context to Dewey number + broad caption


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Use a BISAC code to get a heading and a Dewey number

•BISAC code in your metadata:• CKB007000

•Looking up literal and mapping:• COOKING—Beverages—Beer —> 641.623

•Deriving Dewey Summaries as broad subject description:

• http://dewey.info/class/641/about.en: Food & drink

• http://dewey.info/class/641/about.es: Alimentos y bebidas

• http://dewey.info/class/641/about.ar: والمشروعات األغذية


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BISAC heading + broad Dewey caption provide categories for a specific BISAC code


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Dewey number + broad Dewey caption + QR code provide link to an online catalog


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Selected Links

•DeweyBrowser• http://deweybrowser.oclc.org/ddcbrowser2/

•Classify• http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/

•Dewey.info• http://dewey.info/

•OCLC Research Works• http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/

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