DDC Search tool – WebDewey Search Demonstration at the EDUG 2012 Symposium, 26th april 2012, Bristish Library, Boston Spa 2018-05-16
Why? Big investments in classification - interest in using the full pontential Browsing – taking advantage of the hierarchical structure of DDC Searching – providing verbal access 2018-05-16
For who? Main target groups: Users with no previous experience of DDC Reference librarians with little or no previous experience of DDC Important also for librarians with little or no previous experience of DDC Important for cataloguers 2018-05-16
WebDewey Search Developed by Pansoft Partners: Pansoft, National Library of Sweden, National Library of Norway, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and OCLC National Library of Sweden first to implement Experiences from MelivilSearch and the Swedish Ämnesträdet, based on the Swedish classification system SAB. One single library catalogue or multiple 2018-05-16
What is in WebDewey Search? Dewey data: Numbers, Captions, See refrences, Index entries Number of hits crawled from the library catalogue(s) To see the bibliographical records, one moves to the catalogue(s) 2018-05-16
2018-05-16
2018-05-16
2018-05-16
2018-05-16
Future work (1) Improvement of the search tool Improvement of the DDC data API to embedd in other web services or catalogues Integrate more in the search tool: Subject heading mappings, for example Svenska ämnesord (SAO) Mappings to other classification schemes, for example SAB Support for DDC numbers from previous editions using the history data 2018-05-16
Future work (2) DDC behind the scene Using DDC numbers, other subject data, mappings between different classification systems and subject heading langugages to improve subject access in new and innovative ways. Seamless and invisible 2018-05-16
Questions? Comments? Magdalena Svanberg magdalena.svanberg@kb.se , +46 10 709 36 40 dewey@kb.se http://deweysearchsv.pansoft.de/webdeweysearch/ 2018-05-16