Papers and presentations from the IFLA 2016 Classification & Indexing Satellite Meeting "Subject Access: Unlimited Opportunities," held 11-12 August at the State Library of Ohio, Columbus, OH, are available here. Among them are two that focus on DDC:
- Crowdsourcing the Dewey Decimal Classification: When Users Become Contributors (paper)—Presentation (slides) (initial behavior of users from the English and Norwegian WebDewey communities using the WebDewey number building tool to contribute Dewey numbers and access terms)
- Leveraging the Dewey Decimal Classification for online subject access: Three use cases of WebDewey Search (paper)—Presentation (slides) (versions of WebDewey Search offered by the national libraries of Germany, Norway, and Sweden to help users search for DDC classified documents)
Presentations from the International Dewey Users Meeting at IFLA 2016 held 16 August at the Greater Columbus Convention Center are available here. The agenda included:
- EPC Meeting 139 (summary of decisions from DDC Editorial Policy Committee meeting about changes to DDC)
- Data-driven development (use of WorldCat data to help identify areas of the DDC schedules needing development)
- Linking FAST to Wikipedia and Wikidata (FAST [Faceted Application of Subject Terminology], library metadata, and the networked environment)
- Principles underlying the EDUG recommendations for mapping involving Dewey (European DDC Users Group recommendations and the University of Oslo project of mapping to the Norwegian WebDewey)
- PANSOFT software developments (separate slides here; at the meeting there was a live demonstration of ccmapper [concept context mapper], a new mapping product that is optimized for mapping subject terms to Dewey numbers, developed by PANSOFT together with the Norwegian Dewey team; and a live demonstration of the new user notification feature being developed for WebDewey)
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