1. DDC Search tool – WebDewey Search
Demonstration at the EDUG 2012 Symposium, 26th april 2012, Bristish Library, Boston Spa

2. Why?
Big investments in classification - interest in using the full pontential
Browsing – taking advantage of the hierarchical structure of DDC
Searching – providing verbal access

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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)

10. 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

11. 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

12. Questions? Comments?
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