1. Dewey Products & Services
Dewey Breakfast/Update
ALA Midwinter
21 January 2012
Dallas
Llibbie Crawford
Product Manager, DDC
OCLC

2. Products & services
DDC 23--Available Abridged Edition 15--Coming soon 200 Religion—Coming soon WebDewey For more information see
Edition 23 of the Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index (DDC 23) was published in April 2011.
More information about the new edition, including links to downloadable associated content, is available at A short webinar on the new edition is available at Slides from the DDC 23 training workshop held immediately preceding the 2011 World Library and Information Conference on 12 August 2011 at Universidad Metropolitana in San Juan, Puerto Rico, are available at
Abridged Edition 15 will be published in in the next few weeks. We have a prepublication copy available at the booth. Abridged Edition 15 is the product of a new approach to development of abridged editions of the Dewey Decimal Classification. The content of Abridged Edition 15 has been derived from the underlying Edition 23 database applying a set of rules to build the edition with minimal intellectual intervention.
200 Religion Class is also scheduled to be published in early The publication will feature additional updates to Islam and other parts of religion, plus a new optional Chronological/regional arrangement of the Bible and specific religions.

3. WebDewey 2.0 http://dewey.org/webdewey
New opening screen

4. WebDewey 2.0 Design Goals Modern interface
Support for search, browse, number building, and personalization
Generic user interface script to allow use of more than one language version and connection to multiple terminology sets
Local controls (links to terminology sets, segmentation marks/instructions, connections to OPACs, etc.)
Just to refresh your memory.

5. DDC data format
Moved to 4th generation Editorial Support System (ESS) developed at OCLC
Moved from proprietary internal format to MARC 21 classification and authority formats
Moved from proprietary XML distribution format to MARCXML + Semantic Web formats

6. WebDewey 2.0: November 2011 enhancements
New opening screen
Additional preferences for initial screen
Removal of dead links
Links to posted updates from every page
Icons for built numbers and Manual notes
History of numbers
Recent enhancements introduced in November 2011 include display of the history information associated with each class, the inclusion of new icons to identify built numbers (a puzzle piece icon)  and Manual notes (a book icon), a new opening screen, extended default search preferences, and direct links to Dewey updates from each web page.

7. Icons for built numbers and Manual notes
Note the book for the Manual note and the puzzle piece for the built number.
Built number

8. Manual note record for 741.5 vs. 741.56

9. Class record for 616.994 in ESS 4.0 (MARC 21 Classification Format)

10. Class record for

11. Class record for 616.994: History box opened

12. Class record for 616.993: Navigated here from 616.994

13. WebDewey 2.0: Enhancements coming in 2012
Data enhancements:
Sears
PPT mappings updated to DDC 23 and displayed as LCSH
Additional number spans (hierarchical displays of built numbers; explicit links in number building instructions)
New functionality:
Number building assistance
User contribution of numbers
Abridged WebDewey will be migrating to WD 2.0 in soon.  The data will be visible in a single WebDewey interface and include enhanced functionality not currently available in Abridged WebDewey in Connexion.  Currently, Abridged numbers are available in WD 2.0 and indicated with the use of segmentation marks in existing WD numbers.
WD features an easy-to-navigate user interface with local control over the display of record elements, a generic user interface script to support access to Dewey data in different languages, and access to different mapped terminology sets. 
  Future releases of WebDewey 2.0 will include number-building assistance and support for WebDewey as a source of user-generated content. 
Currently, Abridged numbers are available in WD 2.0 and indicated with the use of segmentation marks in existing WD numbers.