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025.431: The Dewey blog
025.431: The Dewey blog is a weblog covering topics related to the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) and knowledge organization (KO). You' ll find news of, and views on, current issues; links to interesting, amusing, and/or unusual DDC/KO-related resources; and continuous opportunity to comment, give feedback, and take part in discussions that will help to shape the future of the DDC.
Who might be interested in 025.431: The Dewey blog?
subject catalogers and classifiers responsible for assigning DDC numbers
designers and analysts of library cataloging systems and metadata standardsusers of libraries and collections that are organized by DDCanyone interested in the development and usage of the world's most widely-used classification scheme
025.431: The Dewey blog is edited by Jonathan Furner, assistant editor of the DDC, with contributions from other members of the Dewey editorial team. The content of the blog is not vetted by the owners of the DDC (OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.) or by the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee.
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Dewey As Linked Data
Exciting news from the Dewey weblog, the Dewey Classification is now available as linked data. As announced on Monday at the seminar "Global Interoperability and Linked Data in Libraries" in beautiful Florence, an exciting new set of linked data has been...
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Dewey Browser
From the OCLC Research Announcement:The DeweyBrowser has been deployed over two new collections of resources.In addition to ebooks, the following collections are now accessible:wcat 2.2 million of the most widely held WorldCat recordsabr14 selected data...
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Deweybrowser
The DeweyBrowser has seem plenty of virtual ink, but it is so intriguing I'm also going to post about it.The OCLC Research DeweyBrowser enables you to search and browse collections of library resources organized by the Dewey Decimal Classification...
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Segmentation Marks In Dewey Numbers
The Library of Congress Decimal Classification Division, along with the Dewey editorial team, is considering a change in segmentation practice. The segmentation marks in Dewey numbers currently show the end of an abridged number or the beginning of a...
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Classification
This news is a bit old but still worth mentioning, Classification Web from the Library of Congress now has LC Subject Heading & Dewey Classification Correlations and LC Classification & Dewey Classification Correlations. It is not a replacement for the...
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