DDC updateDDC update

Gordon DunsireGordon DunsireCentre for Digital Library ResearchCentre for Digital Library ResearchUniversity of Strathclyde, GlasgowUniversity of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Presented at the CIG Standards Forum, 26 Sep 2007, Presented at the CIG Standards Forum, 26 Sep 2007, LondonLondon

Some changes recently approved Some changes recently approved or in discussionor 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”

More changes recently approved or More changes recently approved or in discussionin 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)

CILIP Committee on DDCCILIP 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@jiscmail.ac.uk available for general discussion, queries, etc.

TranslationsTranslations

• 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)

Impact of translationsImpact 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

EDUGEDUG

• 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

www.slainte.org.uk/edugit/index.htmwww.slainte.org.uk/edugit/index.htm

Digital DeweyDigital 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/

Dewey 2.0?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!

http://scone.strath.ac.uk/service/sconeservice/ddcsummarycloud.cfm

In speculative summaryIn speculative summary

• Internationalisation• + Interoperability• = Semantic web?

– Other bibliographic standards moving in a similar direction

• AACR > RDA; FRBR; ONIX; DCMI; SKOS …

• Meanwhile, back on planet Earth the really difficult problems await our attention English sparkling riesling, anyone?

Thank youThank you

• g.dunsire@strath.ac.uk

• Questions?