Dewey Products & Services
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Dewey
Breakfast/Update
ALA Midwinter
21 January 2012
Dewey Products &
Services
Dallas
Llibbie Crawford
Product Manager, DDC
OCLC
[email protected]
Products & services
DDC 23--Available
Abridged Edition 15--Coming soon
200 Religion—Coming soon
WebDewey 2.0 +
For more information see www.oclc.org/dewey
WebDewey 2.0
http://dewey.org/webdewey
WebDewey 2.0 Design Goals
• Modern interface
• Support for search, browse, number building, and
personalization
• Generic user interface script to allow use of more than one
language version and connection to multiple terminology sets
• Local controls (links to terminology sets, segmentation
marks/instructions, connections to OPACs, etc.)
DDC data format
• Moved to 4th generation Editorial Support System (ESS)
developed at OCLC
• Moved from proprietary internal format to MARC 21
classification and authority formats
• Moved from proprietary XML distribution format to
MARCXML + Semantic Web formats
WebDewey 2.0:
November 2011 enhancements
• New opening screen
• Additional preferences for initial screen
• Removal of dead links
• Links to posted updates from every page
• Icons for built numbers and Manual notes
• History of numbers
Icons for built numbers and Manual notes
Manual note
Built number
Manual note record for 741.5 vs. 741.56
Manual note
Class record for 616.994 in ESS 4.0
(MARC 21 Classification Format)
Class record for 616.994
Class record for 616.994:
History box opened
Class record for 616.993:
Navigated here from 616.994
WebDewey 2.0:
Enhancements coming in 2012
Data enhancements:
• Sears
• PPT mappings updated to DDC 23 and displayed as LCSH
• Additional number spans (hierarchical displays of built
numbers; explicit links in number building instructions)
New functionality:
• Number building assistance
• User contribution of numbers