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Oh, dear. That's not good news: " There is no current projected date for the return of Dewey.info right now. We apologize for the inconvenience." Dated June 9, 2015. kc On 6/12/15 10:54 AM, LeVan,Ralph wrote: > This is as close to an official statement as I can find: > > http://www.oclc.org/developer/news/2015/dewey-down.en.html > > I've asked around, but can't add anything to that. > > Ralph > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle > Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 12:35 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Auto discovery of Dewey, UDC > > Hi. I tweeted this last month and got a reply that dewey.info is indeed currently down for major work, but is intended to return. That said, it was intended to return a month or two ago, so the usual coding project delays are in action here. ;-) > > kc > > On 6/12/15 7:08 AM, Sergio Letuche 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 >>>>>> >>>>> __________________________________________________ >>>>> Il tuo 5x1000 al Patronato di San Girolamo della Carita' e' un gesto >>>>> semplice ma di grande valore. >>>>> Una tua firma aiutera' i sacerdoti ad essere piu' vicini alle esigenze >>> di >>>>> tutti noi. >>>>> Aiutaci a formare sacerdoti e seminaristi provenienti dai 5 continenti >>>>> indicando nella dichiarazione dei redditi il codice fiscale 97023980580. >>>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Péter Király >>> software developer >>> GWDG, Göttingen - Europeana - eXtensible Catalog - The Code4Lib Journal >>> http://linkedin.com/in/peterkiraly >>> -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net m: +1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600