What Does It Mean to “Use Dewey”?What Does It Mean to “Use Dewey”?

Dewey Breakfast/UpdateALA Annual ConferenceChicagoJuly 11, 2009

What is Dewey’s value proposition?

•Language-independent representation

•Large amount of categorized content

• Interoperable translations

•Mappings and crosswalks

•Organizational support

•Worldwide user community

Agenda

• Dewey in the World Digital Library

• Representation of DDC in MARC 21 Bibliographic Format: An Update

• Dewey Summaries as Multilingual Linked Data

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