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Presentation given at the European Conference on Data Analysis 2013 in Luxemburg on July 10th, 2013.
Design the wrong system, and “selenium” and “sex” get sorted the same.
Libraries and bookstores have perennially faced the problem of how to organize books on their shelves. There’s a tension between making certain books easy to find for readers with one set of…
Danger of our signs speaking only in classification numbers.
The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system is the world’s most widely used way to organize library collections. The DDC constantly updates to enable better discovery across any topic in multiple languages. Because the DDC is easy to use, you can increase the visibility of your materials quickly and efficiently.
DDC released as linked data. SPARQL endpoint at http://dewey.info/sparql.php
Most of us, when we hear "Dewey Decimal Classification" (DDC) think about the numbers that go onto the backs of books that then tell us wher...
When I was in library school at UT Austin circa 2003, I salvaged a stack of crumbling bibliographic how-to posters from a throw-away pile and have been carrying them around ever since. These 18R…
"It makes sense for us to ask now: is there any reason (other than shelf placement) to continue library classification practices?"