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Dewey in Sweden

- still a project?Harriet Aagaard

The National Library of Sweden

EDUG meeting 11 April 2013

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Dewey in Sweden

• 1921 Sweden developed a Swedish classificationssystem, SAB

• 2005 Report on Cataloguing and Classification– Proposal to switch to DDK

• 2008 The National Library decided to switch

• 2008 The Swedish Library Association recommended public libraries and school libraries to switch

• 2009 The Dewey project, May 2009 – December 2011

• 2012- The Swedish Dewey Editorial Office

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The Dewey project 2009 - 2011

• Magdalena Svanberg, projectmanager

• Projectgroup 6 persons

• 9.3 years of work (for one person)

• Mixed translation - 40 %– SAB (the Swedish Classification System)– The Abridged edition– All superordinate classes to translated classes– All tables

• Training

• Mappings

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Mappings

• DDK – SAB– Database with table of mappings– SKOS

• DDK – SAO (The Swedish Subject Headings)

– SAO is an additional access point in the Swedish WebDewey

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Mappings used in Libris

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Mappings used in WebDewey Search

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Used in Libris to search a subject by DDK classification

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Mappings DDK - SAB

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• Separate routine• Manual work• Intellectual work• Takes time

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Mappings DDK - SAO

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Part of the work for new Subject Headings

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Mixed translation?

• Good enough?

• Too few terms in the Swedish index

• Have to search both in the Swedish and the English index

• Less efficient

• Affects quality?

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Full translation – in time!

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Mixed translation- example

Swedish index entry English index entry

Ensamstående män T1--08652 Single men T1--08652

Single men 306.8152

Single men--psychology 155.6422

Single men--social group 306.8152

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Pansoft – translations & updates

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Libraries using DDK

• The National Library

• 25 University Libraries

• 12 Special Libraries

• 5 Public Libraries

• BTJ (Literary agency used by public libraries)

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Training

• Autumn 2010 - 2011

• 13 full week courses (200 librarians)– Including 1 day Introduction

• 1 day Introduction (800 librarians)– 13 + 5 extra

• 2012 - 2013– 4 full week courses

• Need for a new model !

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Future training

• 290 kommuner (municipalities)

• School libraries

• University libraries– New libraries– New staff– Special areas

– Law– Literature– Medicin– Music– etc

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Web based training

• Powerpoint – Camtasia– Audio– Webcamera

• Introduction

• Number building

• Special topics in DDK

• Shelving

• How to start with DDK

• etc

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Shelving

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How to go from SAB toDDC?

•New books?•All books?•What shelving information?

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A national standard for shelving

• A national standard for fiction for adults

• A national standard for children’s literature – fiction & nonfiction

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SkönEng

PoesiFre

Drama

Kapitel Rim &Ramsor

Unga

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The Swedish Dewey Editorial Office

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National bibliography - Working group

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• Dewey support team• Quality control• Best practises

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National reference group

• University librariesMaria Gullberg – Malmö högskolaBo Jernberg – Linköpings universitetHelene Stenman – Umeå universitet

• Public libraries / School librariesLina Berglund – Malmö stadsbibliotekAstrid Wolff Feychting – Umeå stadsbibliotek

• BTJ (literaty agency used by public libraries)Elisabet Viktorsson

• The National library. The National bibliographyOlof Osterman

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Web based meetings

Adobe Connect

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DDK & end users

• For shelving– Finding a book– Browsing by subject

• For search– Subject searces in the catalogue

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• Simple search• Limitations by

subject

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Useful for librarians

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We need to make Dewey

work harder

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Next generation Libris

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Big data analysis & DDK

Metadata of books fulltext

Big data analysis of fulltext

DDK must be able to work together with•Big data analysis•Subject headings

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Viegas-UserActivityonWikipedia.gif

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Still a project?

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harriet.aagaard@kb.se

dewey@kb.se

010-7093612

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Thank you!