features for the future: what might the dewey ecosystem look like in ten years?
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In the last ten years there has been much change in the Dewey ecosystem. One driver has been the European Dewey User Group (EDUG). This presentation, which I held at the EDUG meeting in the National Library of Norway, Oslo in April 2013, tries a look into the crystal ball in order to find out what the Dewey ecosystem looks like in ten years' time. The main points: 1) Dewey has changed some internals, including licensing, versioning and use of facets 2) DDC interoperates well with other knowledges information systems and we have well-established crosswalks in place in order to improve information retrieval 3) The integration of classification data into end-user interfaces is mainstream If this becomes true depends on the people who use the system! If they want it to happen, it will.TRANSCRIPT
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Features for the Future: What Might the Dewey Ecosystem Look Like in Ten Years?
Lars G. Svensson
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In the last ten years, we have witnessed some large changes in the Dewey world
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The EDUG community has been a large driver behind some of those changes
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In the previous talks we have heard much about the past …
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… but we still do not know what will come
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So I had a brief session with my crystal ball and in ten years:
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1. Dewey will have changed some internals
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Dewey is available under an open license
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CC BY-NC-ND
There is explicit versioning of DDC classes in place (and we use it for non-editorial purposes)
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$ curl -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml" http://dewey.info/class/332.45/e23/about
The DDC is a fully faceted classification (and we use those facets!)
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639.5809483(Fishing for shellfish in south-west Norway)
639.5(Crustacean fisheries)
595.388(Natantia (Shrimps))
T2--483(Sørlandet and Vestlandet)
2. DDC is (even) more interoperable
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We have mappings between DDC and other KOS
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Dewey
GNDLCSH
RVK
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CCLots of KOSI don‘t know
There is an infrastructure in place to distribute those mappings
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We have verified that the crosswalks actually make retrieval better…
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“Landhaus <Villa>”
http://d-nb.info/040635325
http://dewey.info/728.8
http://d-nb.info/984538100
“Saalbauten auf Pfalzenund Burgen im Reich
der Staufer”
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“Villa”
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“Large and elaborateprivate dwellings”
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3. The integration of DDC into user interfaces is mainstream
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… and then you just apply the filter here and you‘ve found everything
on Swedish reindeer.
Wow!
For end users we have a seamless inte-gration into catalogues and library portals
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Cataloguers’ interfaces evaluate third party information and suggest further access points
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Major websites use Dewey as one way to organize their content
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So is this the future or just a dream?
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Well, it depends on us! And if we believe it can be true, it will.