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Dewey BreakfastALA Annual Conference New Orleans, LA24 June 2006
Julianne BeallLibrary of Congress
Diane Vizine-GoetzOCLC Research
Using Dewey to Improve Access to Fiction
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Fiction: broad and narrow definitions
Broad definition: Stories of imagined events, e.g., novels, short
stories, fairy tales, fables, films, comics, interactive fiction
Narrow definition: Fictional prose--only novels or short stories
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OCLC FictionFinder uses narrow definition
Good representation of textual novels and short stories
Inconsistent, limited coverage of fiction in poetry and drama, comics and graphic novels
No coverage of television and films Based on MARC coding for fiction in existing
catalog records
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FictionFinder
Slide 1 A search for ‘Jane Austen’ in FictionFinder
illustrates the prototype’s good coverage of textual novels
Slide 2 A search for ‘Fantastic four’ illustrates the uneven
coverage of comics and graphic novels
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Comic books & graphic novels
Many works and editions are missing from FictionFinder because Literary form not coded ‘fiction’ or ‘comic strips’
For example, Fantastic four: into the breach is missing, but would be included if FictionFinder used a broader definition of fiction
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Expanding coverage of FictionFinder
This study aims to expand the coverage of FictionFinder To include fiction in comics, graphic novels,
television, and films For people interested in finding a good story,
regardless of form or format Using the Dewey Decimal Classification
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Dewey categories
This study also seeks to display results in categories based on Dewey numbers in records, e.g.: English fiction Comics and graphic novels Movies and films Television
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Live Search
Slide 1 The Live Search prototype, developed by Thom
Hickey, presents the results of a search for ‘Jane Austen’ categorized by Dewey
Slide 2 The results list is limited to Public Performances
(DDC 791) which includes a BBC television production and a film version of Pride and Prejudice
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Dewey 700s vs. 800s
700 The arts Fine and decorative arts Formats that combine literary text with other arts Comic books, opera, theater, films, television
800 Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric Limited to purely textual works
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Dewey numbers to be added to an expanded FictionFinder
741.5 Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips
791.43 Motion pictures 791.45 Television Selected subdivisions of these numbers
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References & Links
Beall, Julianne, and Diane Vizine-Goetz. Forthcoming. “Finding Fiction: Facilitating Access to Works of the Imagination Scattered by Form and Format.” In Knowledge Organization for a Global Learning Society. Ninth International ISKO Conference, Vienna, Austria, 4-7 July 2006, International Society for Knowledge Organization.
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References & Links
Hickey, Thom. 2005. “Work in progress.” Outgoing : Library metadata techniques and trends. http://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2005/12/work_in_progres.html
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