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Features for the Future: What Might the Dewey Ecosystem Look Like in Ten Years?

Lars G. Svensson

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In the last ten years, we have witnessed some large changes in the Dewey world

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The EDUG community has been a large driver behind some of those changes

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In the previous talks we have heard much about the past …

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… but we still do not know what will come

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So I had a brief session with my crystal ball and in ten years:

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1. Dewey will have changed some internals

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Dewey is available under an open license

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There is explicit versioning of DDC classes in place (and we use it for non-editorial purposes)

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The DDC is a fully faceted classification (and we use those facets!)

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639.5809483(Fishing for shellfish in south-west Norway)

639.5(Crustacean fisheries)

595.388(Natantia (Shrimps))

T2--483(Sørlandet and Vestlandet)

2. DDC is (even) more interoperable

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We have mappings between DDC and other KOS

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CCLots of KOSI don‘t know

There is an infrastructure in place to distribute those mappings

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We have verified that the crosswalks actually make retrieval better…

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“Landhaus <Villa>”

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3. The integration of DDC into user interfaces is mainstream

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… and then you just apply the filter here and you‘ve found everything

on Swedish reindeer.

Wow!

For end users we have a seamless inte-gration into catalogues and library portals

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Cataloguers’ interfaces evaluate third party information and suggest further access points

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Major websites use Dewey as one way to organize their content

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So is this the future or just a dream?

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Well, it depends on us! And if we believe it can be true, it will.