MARC 21 Bibliographic Format Field 083, Racially Mixed People, and DDC Table 5 Ethnic and National Groups

MARC 21 Bibliographic Format Field 083, Racially Mixed People, and DDC Table 5 Ethnic and National Groups

Julianne Beall

The Ethics of

Information

Organization May 22, 2009

OutlineOutline

•The Challenge of the Self-identity Principle

•Table 5 in the Context of DDC as a Whole

•MARC 21 Bibliographic Format Field 083

•Mapping Subject Headings to Table 5 Notation

•DeweyBrowser beta v2.0, Tag Clouds, Table 5

•Conclusion: Part (i) Terminology and Part (ii) Retrieval

Maria P. P. Root’s “A Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People” Maria P. P. Root’s “A Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People”

“I have the right

to identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify

to identify myself differently than how my parents identify me

to identify myself differently in different situations”

“I have the right

to create a vocabulary to communicate about being multiracial

to change my identity over my lifetime—and more than once”

Jonathan Furner: The Challenge of the Self-identity Principle (1)Jonathan Furner: The Challenge of the Self-identity Principle (1)

Designers of library catalogs and classification schemes have a responsibility to ensure:

(i) terminology used to represent racially mixed people reflects the terminology used by racially mixed searchers to identify themselves

(ii) works about racially mixed people can be retrieved in any of four ways that they may identify themselves

Jonathan Furner: The Challenge of the Self-identity Principle (2)Jonathan Furner: The Challenge of the Self-identity Principle (2)

Racially mixed people may identify themselves:

1. with racially mixed people generally;

2. with racially mixed people particularly;

3. with several racial populations equally; or

4. with one racial population separately.

Table 5 Notation in the Context of DDC as a WholeTable 5 Notation in the Context of DDC as a Whole

Appears at the end of a standard Dewey number, or embedded in the middle

May be omitted if the number is long

Various rules may prevent Table 5 notation from being added, e.g., requirement that the topic approximate the whole

Can never be added for literary works by individual authors

Quicksand by Nella Larsen (1) Quicksand by Nella Larsen (1)

LCSH in WorldCat:

Harlem (New York, N.Y.) — Fiction

African American women — Fiction

Racially mixed people — Fiction

Danish American women — Fiction

Copenhagen (Denmark) — Fiction

Young women — Fiction

Quicksand by Nella Larsen (2) Quicksand by Nella Larsen (2)

813.52 American fiction in English, 1900-1945

81 American literature in English

3 Fiction (from Table 3A)

52 1900–1945 (from literary period table under 810.1–818)

MARC 21 Bibliographic Format Field 083 MARC 21 Bibliographic Format Field 083

Provision for assignment of access numbers (additional DDC numbers, notation from Tables 1–6, internal table notation) in bibliographic records

083 - Additional Dewey Decimal Classification Number (R)

Added in Update No. 9 (October 2008)

OCLC expects to implement in WorldCat in August 2009

Quicksand by Nella Larsen (3)Quicksand by Nella Larsen (3)

082 00 $a 813/.52 $2 22

083 0# $z 5 $a 05 $2 22

083 0# $z 5 $a 3981073 $2 22

083 0# $z 5 $a 96073 $2 22

083 0# $z 5 $a 059607303981073 $2 22

Quicksand by Nella Larsen (4)Quicksand by Nella Larsen (4)

083 0# $z 5 $a 05 $2 22

05 Persons of mixed ancestry with ethnic origins from more than one continent (from Table 5)

Quicksand by Nella Larsen (5)Quicksand by Nella Larsen (5)

083 0# $z 5 $a 3981073 $2 22

3981073 Danish Americans (built Table 5 notation)

3981 Danes (from Table 5)

0 Facet indicator as instructed at start of Table 5

73 United States (from Table 2)

Quicksand by Nella Larsen (6)Quicksand by Nella Larsen (6)

083 0# $z 5 $a 96073 $2 22

96073 African Americans (United States Blacks) (from Table 5)

Quicksand by Nella Larsen (7)Quicksand by Nella Larsen (7)

083 0# $z 5 $a 059607303981073 $2 22

059607303981073 African-American-Danish- Americans (built Table 5 notation)

05 Persons of mixed ancestry with ethnic origins from more than one continent (from Table 5)

96073 African Americans (United States Blacks) (from Table 5)

Quicksand by Nella Larsen (8)Quicksand by Nella Larsen (8)

083 0# $z 5 $a 059607303981073 $2 22

0 Facet indicator as instructed at 05 in Table 5

3981 Danes (from Table 5)

0 Facet indicator as instructed at start of Table 5

73 United States (from Table 2)

Mapping Subject Headings to Table 5 NotationMapping Subject Headings to Table 5 Notation

Mapping as basis for adding Table 5 notation in 083 fields of bibliographic records

Example: 951 Chinese (from Table 5)

083 0# $z 5 $a 951 $2 22

Most of the ca. 1000 LCSH headings with the word “Chinese” do not focus on Chinese people

LCSH that Might Be Mapped to Table 5 Notation 951 ChineseLCSH that Might Be Mapped to Table 5 Notation 951 Chinese

African Americans — Relations with Chinese

Authors, Chinese

Chinese

Chinese diaspora

Chinese diaspora in literature

Chinese in literature

Chinese students

National characteristics, Chinese

DeweyBrowser beta v2.0 and Table 5DeweyBrowser beta v2.0 and Table 5

The DDC summaries are presented in a tag cloud (without notation) in DeweyBrowser beta v2.0, available at http://deweybrowser.oclc.org/ddcbrowser2/

Table 5 topics might be presented in an alternative tag cloud of terms

Table 5 Topics and Tag CloudsTable 5 Topics and Tag Clouds

Some broad Table 5 topics would be useful in a tag cloud, e.g., North American native peoples

Others would be skipped, e.g., Other Indo-European peoples

Narrower topics could be promoted to the opening tag cloud in place of the skipped topics, e.g., Irish

Captions could be modified, e.g., Racially mixed people for Table 5 notation 05

Conclusion: Part (i) of the Challenge: TerminologyConclusion: Part (i) of the Challenge: Terminology

Present multiple names for the same Table 5 topic in a tag cloud? No!

Then we cannot allow each searcher to search on that individual’s preferred term

Maybe some day a searcher will be able to personalize the names of the tags in a tag cloud

Conclusion: Part (ii) of the Challenge: RetrievalConclusion: Part (ii) of the Challenge: Retrieval

Creative use of Table 5 notation in the MARC Bibliographic format 083 field can improve retrieval

Searchers who identify (1) “with racially mixed people generally” and (4) “with one racial population separately” will fare best

Searchers who identify (3) “with several racial populations equally” will probably be willing to do successive searches

Searchers who identify (2) “with racially mixed people particularly” will need to use Boolean searches