1. DDC update Gordon Dunsire Centre for Digital Library Research University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Presented at the CIG Standards Forum, 26 Sep 2007, London

2. Some changes recently approved or in discussion 200 Religion –Fruitful discussions with UDC –Likely to discontinue current options for 290 In favour of a single time/place alternative framework based on top-level UDC Explore suitability of framework for a future revision T1 -08 History and description with respect to kinds of persons –“Groups of people”

3. More changes recently approved or in discussion Semantic web, Internet telephony –And VOIP, GIS, GPS … –Digital libraries (expansion in discussion) … Political parties of Austria and Switzerland Fountains and cloisters Crimes (expansion) Services to prisoners (expansion) Wine (in argument)

4. CILIP Committee on DDC New Chair: Stephen Homer –Ross Trotter has retired as Chair, but will stay on as an observer for the time being Representative to DDC Editorial Policy Committee: Caroline Kent Lis-ukbibs@jiscmail.ac.uk available for general discussion, queries, etc.

5. Translations Chinese, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Vietnamese … –Complete, in progress or in discussion –Various editions of DDC (and Abridged) Close co-ordination with OCLC Translations technically interoperable with DDC Translators meeting at IFLA (2006, 2007)

6. Impact of translations Italy: changes to T2 -45 and expansion of T2 -37; interoperable expansions in 945 Potential for multi-lingual retrieval –DDC number as the common link Formation of EDUG (eedoog) –European DDC Users Group –Inaugural meeting in Bern in June 2007 –Next meeting in Frankfurt in April 2008

7. EDUG Likely to be based on representatives of national libraries –“National” is an issue North American bias of DDC –DDC also wishes to eliminate bias Specific subject areas –Archaeology –Education –Law First meeting of EDUG 340 at IFLA 2007 Technical development

8. www.slainte.org.uk/edugit/index.htm

9. Digital Dewey Proposal to extend DDC in MARC21 bibliographic and authority formats –Better fit with XML of DDC and its translations Research into extending WebDewey as a “web service” –Give me the caption for number XXX –Give me the number(s) for topic YYY –UK involvement via the High-Level Thesaurus (HILT) project at CDLR http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/

10. Dewey 2.0? Dewey website –http://www.oclc.org/dewey/http://www.oclc.org/dewey/ 025.431: The Dewey blog –http://ddc.typepad.com/http://ddc.typepad.com/ –Has RSS feed for notification Web service project But –No specific email discussion list –No wiki for suggestions, discussion, work-in-progress Tag clouds!

11. http://scone.strath.ac.uk/service/sconeservice/ddcsummarycloud.cfm

15. In speculative summary Internationalisation + Interoperability = Semantic web? –Other bibliographic standards moving in a similar direction AACR > RDA; FRBR; ONIX; DCMI; SKOS … Meanwhile, back on planet Earth  the really difficult problems  await our attention  English sparkling riesling, anyone?

16. Thank you g.dunsire@strath.ac.uk Questions?