i am afraid we cannot wait...

Thanx again Stefano,

Cheers

2015-06-12 18:00 GMT+03:00 Stefano Bargioni <[log in to unmask]>:

> I found this (a bit strange):
> http://ddc.typepad.com/025431/2015/04/deweyinfo-is-coming-back.html
>
> On 12/giu/2015, at 16:08, Sergio Letuche <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > dewey.info
> >
> > seems to be dead, we have also checked this.
> >
> > 2015-06-12 16:57 GMT+03:00 Péter Király <[log in to unmask]>:
> >
> >> Hi Sergio,
> >>
> >> As part of eXtensible Catalog we developed a Dewey module for Drupal,
> >> which takes a Dewey number, and use OCLC's dewey.info to fetch the
> >> textual description of the part. When it was created the service
> >> contained only 3 levels of the classification system, since then they
> >> went ahead, and now it is deeper.
> >>
> >> You can find the sorce here:
> >> http://cgit.drupalcode.org/xc/tree/xc_dewey/xc_dewey.module?h=7.x-1.x
> >>
> >> Maybe it helps you.
> >>
> >> Regarding to UDC: it is much a harder task, and when I worked with it,
> >> I run into a blocking problem, which is that UDC was not licenced as
> >> freely usable, and I was not able to get a licence to use it in an
> >> open source project. There were some other problems as well: UDC
> >> changed from time to time, and sometimes it means, that a given
> >> classification code means this thing in a given point of time, and
> >> that thing some years later. The MARC catalog I worked with did not
> >> contain any information about the UDC versions, so the accuracy of the
> >> tool was not guaranted (of course you can do some intelligent
> >> guessing). And the last problem was, that on contrary to the Dewey
> >> classification UDC contains sometime very lengthy descriptions instead
> >> of one or two words. Semantically it is OK, but makes the UI design a
> >> little bit hard, and if you want to search for the textual
> >> description, you'll end up sometimes with a "noisy" result set.
> >> Otherwise to handle the operators, the subclasses, and all the nice
> >> things UDC provides is a very interesting challange.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Péter
> >>
> >>
> >> 2015-06-12 12:59 GMT+02:00 Sergio Letuche <[log in to unmask]>:
> >>> thank you very much for your quick reply, dear Stefano,
> >>>
> >>> i appreciate it
> >>>
> >>> 2015-06-12 13:47 GMT+03:00 Stefano Bargioni <[log in to unmask]>:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi, Sergio:
> >>>> maybe this article [1 abstract] [2 English text] can give you some
> basic
> >>>> ideas. We added a lot of DDC info in our Koha catalog two years ago.
> >>>> HTH. Stefano
> >>>>
> >>>> [1] http://leo.cineca.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/8766
> >>>> [2] http://leo.cineca.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/8766/8060
> >>>>
> >>>> On 12/giu/2015, at 12:03, Sergio Letuche <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> hello community!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> we are facing this challenging issue. We need to complete for a vast
> >>>> amount
> >>>>> of records, the dewey, UDC info, has anyone had any experience with
> >> this?
> >>>>> We need some way (via modeling? mahout?) to try and discover these
> >>>> values,
> >>>>> based on some text, found in the records' metadata, and then auto
> >>>> complete
> >>>>> these values.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I would appreciate any feedback, if there is any opensource tool you
> >> have
> >>>>> used for this purpose, or if you are aware of any best practice for
> >> doing
> >>>>> this task.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Best
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Péter Király
> >> software developer
> >> GWDG, Göttingen - Europeana - eXtensible Catalog - The Code4Lib Journal
> >> http://linkedin.com/in/peterkiraly
> >>
> >
>
>
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> Una tua firma aiuterà i sacerdoti ad essere più vicini alle esigenze di
> tutti noi.
> Aiutaci a formare sacerdoti e seminaristi provenienti dai 5 continenti
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>