DDC update

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DDC update

• Gordon Dunsire
• Centre for Digital Library Research
• University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
• Presented at the CIG Standards Forum, 26 Sep
  2007, London

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Some changes recently approved or in discussion

• 200 Religion
• Fruitful discussions with UDC
• Likely to discontinue current options for 290
• In favour of a single time/place alternative
  framework based on top-level UDC
• Explore suitability of framework for a future
  revision
• T1 -08 History and description with respect to
  kinds of persons
• Groups of people

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More changes recently approved or in discussion

• Semantic web, Internet telephony
• And VOIP, GIS, GPS
• Digital libraries (expansion in discussion)
• Political parties of Austria and Switzerland
• Fountains and cloisters
• Crimes (expansion)
• Services to prisoners (expansion)
• Wine (in argument)

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CILIP Committee on DDC

• New Chair Stephen Homer
• Ross Trotter has retired as Chair, but will stay
  on as an observer for the time being
• Representative to DDC Editorial Policy Committee
  Caroline Kent
• Lis-ukbibs_at_jiscmail.ac.uk available for general
  discussion, queries, etc.

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Translations

• Chinese, French, German, Greek, Icelandic,
  Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish,
  Vietnamese
• Complete, in progress or in discussion
• Various editions of DDC (and Abridged)
• Close co-ordination with OCLC
• Translations technically interoperable with DDC
• Translators meeting at IFLA (2006, 2007)

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Impact of translations

• Italy changes to T2 -45 and expansion of T2 -37
  interoperable expansions in 945
• Potential for multi-lingual retrieval
• DDC number as the common link
• Formation of EDUG (eedoog)
• European DDC Users Group
• Inaugural meeting in Bern in June 2007
• Next meeting in Frankfurt in April 2008

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EDUG

• Likely to be based on representatives of national
  libraries
• National is an issue
• North American bias of DDC
• DDC also wishes to eliminate bias
• Specific subject areas
• Archaeology
• Education
• Law
• First meeting of EDUG 340 at IFLA 2007
• Technical development

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www.slainte.org.uk/edugit/index.htm
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Digital Dewey

• Proposal to extend DDC in MARC21 bibliographic
  and authority formats
• Better fit with XML of DDC and its translations
• Research into extending WebDewey as a web
  service
• Give me the caption for number XXX
• Give me the number(s) for topic YYY
• UK involvement via the High-Level Thesaurus
  (HILT) project at CDLR
• http//hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/

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Dewey 2.0?

• Dewey website
• http//www.oclc.org/dewey/
• 025.431 The Dewey blog
• http//ddc.typepad.com/
• Has RSS feed for notification
• Web service project
• But
• No specific email discussion list
• No wiki for suggestions, discussion,
  work-in-progress
• Tag clouds!

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http//scone.strath.ac.uk/service/sconeservice/ddc
summarycloud.cfm
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In speculative summary

• Internationalisation
• Interoperability
• Semantic web?
• Other bibliographic standards moving in a similar
  direction
• AACR gt RDA FRBR ONIX DCMI SKOS
• Meanwhile, back on planet Earth
• ? the really difficult problems
• ? await our attention
• ? English sparkling riesling, anyone?

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Thank you

• g.dunsire_at_strath.ac.uk
• Questions?