1. Storyboarding user contribution of built numbers
Dewey Breakfast/Update
ALA Midwinter
21 January 2012
Dallas
Michael Panzer
Assistant Editor, DDC
OCLC

2. Motivation
Provide a way for users to save numbers they have built in WebDewey
Personal and institutional built numbers
Provide a way for users to contribute numbers they have built
Components and steps in the number building process should be saved in well-formed 765 fields
Eases editorial evaluation for inclusion in the classification as “official” built numbers
Makes it possible to integrate such numbers into search and display in the local copy of WebDewey
Number building assistant seems best way to ensure validity

3. Number building assistant: Requirements
Can be used even without intention of saving the number
Parses most add notes and other instructions to guide the user and construct MARC 765 fields in the background at the same time
Component information is used to display how a number was built in a user-friendly way
Helps the user in adding index terms to a saved built number

8. MARC

9. MARC view
LDR nw###n##
001 ocd
003 OCoLC-D
aaaaaabb
040 ##  $a OCLCD $b eng $c OCLCD
084 0#  $a ddc $c 23 $e eng
153 ##  $a   $e   
765 0#  $b   $z 1 $s 092  $u   
750 #7  $a Mountain Climbing  $x biography
750 #0  $a Mountaineering $x biography

10. Standard Subdivision
765 0# $b $z 1 $s 092 $u 10

11. Add note
765 0# $b 073 $z 2 $r 43 $s 912 $u
Add to base number [$b] 073 the numbers following [$r] T2--43 in notation T T from Table 2, e.g., journalism and newspapers in Austria 073.6 11

12. Showing where add instructions are found
765 0# $b $z 1 $a 093 $c 099 $z 1 $s 09 $u
Add to base number [$b] T1--09 notation T2--3-T2--9 from Table 2, e.g., the subject in North America T1--097, in Brazil T ; ...
765 0# $b $z 2 $s 73 $u 12

13. Feedback? How could this tool be most helpful?
Do you want a way to build numbers manually (bypassing the assistant), with or without 765 fields?
How should the process of manually creating numbers without using 765 fields work?
Would you still like to save such numbers (including seeing them in the hierarchy)?
How strongly should the user be guided through the number building process?
Migrate numbers currently saved as user comments?