Dewey Breakfast ALA Annual Conference New Orleans, LA 24 June 2006

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Dewey BreakfastALA Annual Conference New
Orleans, LA24 June 2006
Using Dewey to Improve Access to Fiction

• Julianne Beall
• Library of Congress
• Diane Vizine-Goetz
• OCLC Research

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Fiction broad and narrow definitions

• Broad definition
• Stories of imagined events, e.g., novels, short
  stories, fairy tales, fables, films, comics,
  interactive fiction
• Narrow definition
• Fictional prose--only novels or short stories

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OCLC FictionFinder uses narrow definition

• Good representation of textual novels and short
  stories
• Inconsistent, limited coverage of fiction in
  poetry and drama, comics and graphic novels
• No coverage of television and films
• Based on MARC coding for fiction in existing
  catalog records

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FictionFinder

• Slide 1
• A search for Jane Austen in FictionFinder
  illustrates the prototypes good coverage of
  textual novels
• Slide 2
• A search for Fantastic four illustrates the
  uneven coverage of comics and graphic novels

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Comic books graphic novels

• Many works and editions are missing from
  FictionFinder because Literary form not coded
  fiction or comic strips
• For example, Fantastic four into the breach is
  missing, but would be included if FictionFinder
  used a broader definition of fiction

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Expanding coverage of FictionFinder

• This study aims to expand the coverage of
  FictionFinder
• To include fiction in comics, graphic novels,
  television, and films
• For people interested in finding a good story,
  regardless of form or format
• Using the Dewey Decimal Classification

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Dewey categories

• This study also seeks to display results in
  categories based on Dewey numbers in records,
  e.g.
• English fiction
• Comics and graphic novels
• Movies and films
• Television

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Live Search

• Slide 1
• The Live Search prototype, developed by Thom
  Hickey, presents the results of a search for
  Jane Austen categorized by Dewey
• Slide 2
• The results list is limited to Public
  Performances (DDC 791) which includes a BBC
  television production and a film version of Pride
  and Prejudice

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Dewey 700s vs. 800s

• 700 The arts Fine and decorative arts
• Formats that combine literary text with other
  arts
• Comic books, opera, theater, films, television
• 800 Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric
• Limited to purely textual works

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Dewey numbers to be added to an expanded
FictionFinder

• 741.5 Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas,
  cartoons, caricatures, comic strips
• 791.43 Motion pictures
• 791.45 Television
• Selected subdivisions of these numbers

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References Links

• Beall, Julianne, and Diane Vizine-Goetz.
  Forthcoming. Finding Fiction Facilitating
  Access to Works of the Imagination Scattered by
  Form and Format. In Knowledge Organization for
  a Global Learning Society. Ninth International
  ISKO Conference, Vienna, Austria, 4-7 July 2006,
  International Society for Knowledge Organization.
• Dewey Decimal Classification
• http//www.oclc.org/dewey/

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References Links

• Hickey, Thom. 2005. Work in progress.
  Outgoing Library metadata techniques and
  trends. http//outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2005/
  12/work_in_progres.html
• OCLC Research
• http//www.oclc.org/research/