EDUG and the DDC: How We Are Working Together Bridging the Class(ification) Divide: The New DDC Languages and Retrieval Possibilities Bibliotheca Alexandrina 27 April 2010 Joan S. Mitchell Editor in Chief, DDC OCLC

Outline Highlight cooperative efforts since the inception of EDUG in 2007 Explore a new model for cooperation

Translations

EDUG

281 Eastern churches /in/pool-coptic_religionhttp:// /in/pool-coptic_religion by Bakar_88 on FlickrBakar_ by Adam Jones, Ph.D. on FlickrAdam Jones, Ph.D.

297 Islam by nd_architecture_library on Flickrnd_architecture_library

340 Law by Jonathan Ziapour on FlickrJonathan Ziapour

370 Education by Crystian Cruz on FlickrCrystian Cruz

636 Animal husbandry by ezioman on Flickrezioman

796 Sports by henke on Flickrhenke

930 Archaeology by phault on Flickrphault

Swedish-English Mixed Translation Diverse kemikalier.57 †Lipider Omfattar vaxer Klassificera här fetter, fettsyror.577†Membrane lipids Class here bilayer lipid membranes.579†Steroids †Sterols Class here cholesterol

World Digital Library

DeweyBrowser (German)

Crosswalks between schemes LCC – DDC (ClassWeb, Classify) UDC – DDC (IZUM, Czech National Library) SAB – DDC(Electronic updated version at National Library of Sweden)

Source: Marie Balikova, IFLA 2009, Division 4 “Business and economic”contains data from class 300/3 – Social sciences and 600/6 Technology Division 5 “Philosophy and religion”- are together in one division

SWD-DDC mappings in MelvilClass SWD-DDC mappings

VZG Project Colibri/DDC (Reiner)

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)

Dewey.info

Dewey Worldwide Community: Bridging the Classification Divide ACOCNational National Libraries ALAResearch Partners CILIPHILT (UK) Konsortium DDC DeutschDNB NKKIJRC (EC) SABINETCACAO (EC) EDUG Colibri/DDC Translation Teams Subject experts Editorial Policy Committee LC & OCLC Dewey Editors

281 Eastern churches /in/pool-coptic_religionhttp:// /in/pool-coptic_religion by Bakar_88 on FlickrBakar_ by Adam Jones, Ph.D. on FlickrAdam Jones, Ph.D.

281 Eastern churches (1) Dewey editors EPC Q EPC (advice & reviewers) Dewey editors Q Dewey editors (revised discussion paper) Translators, Experts Q Translators, Experts (advice) Dewey editors Q – Q (discussion paper)

281 Eastern churches (2) Dewey editors (revised development) EPC Q EPC (action) Dewey editors Q Dewey editors DDC 23 Q2 2011

297 Islam by nd_architecture_library on Flickrnd_architecture_library

297 Islam Translators (proposals) Dewey editors Q Arabic edition 200 Religion WebDewey Q4 2011

370 Education by Crystian Cruz on FlickrCrystian Cruz

370 Education (1) Dewey editors (discussion paper) EDUG, EPC, ExpertsQ EDUG 370 WG Q3-Q Dewey editors (revised discussion paper) EDUG, EPC Dewey eds, EPC Q EDUG 370 WG (reports) (report) Dewey eds, EPC Q Dewey editors (proposed development) EDUG, EPCQ2 2009

370 Education (2) (revised development) EDUG, EPC Dewey editors (discussion paper)EDUG, EPC EDUG 370 WG (report) Dewey eds, EPC Q Q Dewey editors Q EDUG, Experts (discussion paper) Dewey editors (discussion paper) EDUG, EPC Q2 2010

370 Education (3) EPC (action) Dewey editors Q2-Q Dewey editorsDDC 23 Q Dewey editors (revised development)EDUG, EPC Q EDUG 370 WG Dewey eds, EPC Q (report)

How can we work together? Adoption of a common format (MARCXML) and Adoption of a common end-user interface (WebDewey 2.0)... offer new opportunities for working together

DDC distribution model DISTRIBUTION SERVER ESS OCLC Translation Software German EN/DE Translation Software Italian EN/IT Translation Software French EN/FR Translation Software Arabic EN/AR Translation Software Norwegian EN/NO Translation Software Swedish EN/SV WebDewey OCLC EN WebDewey Swedish mixed EN/SV WebDewey IItalian IT WebDewey German DE WebDewey French FR WebDewey Norwegian NO......

What if... WebDewey became a source for user input instead of an endpoint?

Proposed model for cooperation DISTRIBUTION SERVER ESS OCLC Translation Software German EN/DE Translation Software Italian EN/IT Translation Software French EN/FR Translation Software Arabic EN/AR Translation Software Norwegian EN/NO Translation Software Swedish EN/SV WebDewey OCLC EN WebDewey Swedish mixed EN/SV WebDewey IItalian IIIT WebDewey German DE WebDewey French FR WebDewey Norwegian NO... Norwegian Users

What could be shared? New built numbers New index terms and mappings Comments on translations in progress Comments on the DDC

Requirements for cooperation MARCXML format Data capture from users in a format compatible with MARCXML For proposed built numbers, base number must exist in source edition All proposals accompanied by provenance data (source edition, institution) Translation teams serve as “funnel” for further distribution

See you at the Dewey Translators Meeting at IFLA 2010 Friday, 13 August 16: Swedish Conference Centre Meeting Room J2 Thank you! شكرا