Web Dewey

JIMMA UNIVERSITY
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
FACULTY OF COMPUTING AND
INFORMATICS
DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION
SCIENCE
Course: Knowledge Organization and
Management
1 Web Dewey
What is Web Dewey
WebDewey is a browser-based version of the Dewey Decimal Classification® (DDC®) database and is updated
quarterly. It is designed to make your classifying activities more efficient and enjoyable by allowing you to point
and click your way through the latest version of the DDC 23 database.
It puts the power of the world’s most widely used library classification system in the hands of
metadata managers to efficiently organize their collection(s). WebDewey is the easiest way to
use the DDC to organize and classify library collections. With WebDewey, you have the most-
up-to-date DDC numbers available, based on an array of continually evolving topics and
languages The year 1876 is a landmark in the history of library classification, when the first
Dewey Decimal Classification was brought out by Melvil Louis Kossuth Dewey, the father of
library movement in the USA as a tool for the organization of books on the shelves. Dewey was
the first person to properly expand on and define his ideas concerning a classification that
placed books into a relative order based on disciplines rather than an alphabetical order, or one
that simply identifies a shelf space for a specific book. The DDC was the first timely modern
system that introduced features like relative locations and a relative index. This allowed book to
be placed in stacks based on their relationships to one another, and freed libraries to begin
more freely organizing their libraries. This scheme is presently used in the libraries throughout
the globe. The reasons for its worldwide popularity can be attributed to its cordial virtues viz.
universality and hospitality for new subjects, a simple and expandable notation, good
mnemonic features, a permanent machinery for its revision and updating, availability in full and
abridged editions and last but not least an outstanding relative index
Principle of web dewey
-> All the areas of specialized knowledge developed in modern society were included
-> Notation is pure, simple, and hospitable.
->The decimal fraction device provided infinite hospitality at the end of the chain.
->Consistent ordering and synthesis lead to mnemonics
->he powerful relative index for locating the subject.
2 Universal Decimal Classification

What is Universal Decimal Classification
Universal Decimal Classification, also called Brussels Classification, system of library
organization. It is distinguished from the Dewey Decimal Classification by expansions using
various symbols in addition to Arabic numerals, resulting in exceedingly long notations. This
system grew out of the international subject index of the Institut Internationale du
Bibliographie at Brussels, which in 1895 adopted the Dewey Decimal Classification as the
basis for its index. Published in 1904–07, it was later translated into several languages.
Despite differences, the Dewey and Universal Decimal Classifications are fundamentally the
same. In its ability to create a hybrid notation (i.e., Arabic number plus symbol), Universal
Decimal parallels the Colon Classification. Its decimal basis and attempts at hierarchical
range underscore its theoretical origin in Dewey. Revision has been continuous.
3 Colon Classification
What is Colon Classification
Colon Classification, system of library organization developed by the Indian librarian S.R.
Ranganathan in 1933. It is general rather than specific in nature, and it can create complex
or new categories through the use of facets, or colons.
In Colon Classification, there are 108 main classes (previously there were 33) and 10
generalized classes (broadly divided between the humanities and sciences), which are
represented by a mixed notation of Arabic numerals and roman and Greek letters. Each
main class comprises five fundamental facets, or groups: personality, matter, energy, space,
and time. Ranganathan’s main contribution to classification was the notion of these
fundamental facets, or categories.
Instead of schedules of numbers for each topic, Colon Classification uses series of short
tables from which component numbers are chosen and linked by colons to form a whole.
The book number is an integral part of the call number, a departure from Dewey or Library
of Congress systems. Each main class has its appropriate facets and focuses; e.g., literature
has language and form. In addition, there are four floating tables that correspond to
subdivisions—e.g., form, geography, time, and language. Further expansion of the tables is
allowed through colon addition or omission (if the subject cannot be expanded).

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-> Notation is pure, simple, and hospitable.

->Consistent ordering and synthesis lead to mnemonics

->he powerful relative index for locating the subject.

2 Universal Decimal Classification

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