EPC Exhibit 136-6
April 26, 2013
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Dewey Section
To:
Caroline Kent, Chair
Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee
Cc:
Members of the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee
Karl E. Debus-López, Chief, U.S. General Division
From:
Michael Panzer, Editor in Chief
Dewey Decimal Classification
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
Re:
Editorial Work Plan
As noted in EPC Exhibit 135-6, in the past we developed and presented a seven-year work plan
following the publication of the full and abridged editions of the DDC. Traditionally the work plan
included a review of every schedule and table within the seven-year cycle. Such a plan was
presented in EPC Exhibit 122-6 (September 15, 2004) for the period 2004-2011; updated versions
followed at subsequent EPC meetings.
The primary driver behind our editorial work is the question, how do we create value in the DDC—
in the basic system, in mappings and links, in translations, in authorized derivative works, in
different forms of representation of the system—to facilitate organization and discovery in the
current and future information environment? Therefore, we engaged EPC in a dialog at Meeting
135 about a different approach to developing the editorial work plan in the context of that question.
For example, we explored one aspect of the new proposed approach in a presentation on data-driven
development using information mined from WorldCat. We expect to continue to give high priority
to sci/tech areas, social issues, media, law, education, peoples, languages, geographic areas,
historical periods, and terminology throughout the DDC. Taxonomic classifications in the life
sciences and special notation for archaeology have been identified by our users as key areas of
disciplinary review. We also anticipate receiving suggestions for areas to review from key
constituents (e.g., classifiers in the Dewey Section at the Library of Congress, in the British Library,
and in the Deutsche National Bibliothek). While we have recommended pulling back from review
of every schedule, we expect to review Tables 1-6 and corresponding T1-T6 provisions in the
schedules (including in internal tables) on an ongoing basis.
DDC Number
Table 1
Table 1
Table 1 / Table 2
Year
2012-2013
Exhibit
135-8.1, 135-8.1a, 135-8.1.1, 136-8.1 (Special notation for archaeology)
Table 2
2012
Table 2
Table 2
Table 3
Table 4
2012-2013
2013
135-9.1 (Elam . . .); 135-9.2 (Scandinavia); 135-9.4 (Quebec); 135-9.6
(Finland)
135-9.3 Baltic Sea and North Sea; 135-9.5 (Queensland)
136-9.3 (St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha)
Table 5
Table 5
Table 5
Table 6
2012
2013
003
004-006
004-006
004-006
Oceans and seas; Queensland
Prescriptive and applied
linguistics
135-10.1 (Finns)
136-10.1 (National groups); 136-10.2 (Modern Assyrians)
Nilo-Saharan peoples
Nilo-Saharan languages
2012-2013
2013
135-11; 136-12.1 (Updates)
136-12.2 (Natural computing); 136-12.3 (Digital media)
Digital devices; Multimedia
systems
010-090
150
200
2013
220-290
301-307
2012
2012
301-307
320
330
340
Future Exhibits
Special notation for archaeology
People by marital status
Approximating the whole of
geographic areas
136-12.3 (Digital media)
136-13.1 (Concepts of God),136-13.2 (Latter-Day Saints),136-13.3
(Voodoo)
135-29.2 (presentation)
135-13.2 (306.8); 136-12.3 (Digital media); 136-14.1 (Preference order in
302–307); 136-14.2 (Marriage and partnerships)
Sociolinguistics
2012-2013
2012
135-12.1 (Leave); 136-16.1 (Parental leave)
135-13.1, 135-13.1.1 (Islamic law); 135-13.2 (Marriage, partnerships,
unions); 135A-13.1 (Islamic law); 136-14.2 (Marriage and partnerships)
340
350
360
360
370
2013
2013
136-17 (Weapons)
135-12.1 (Leave)
2012-2014
380
2013
135-17.1 (Adult education); 135-17.2 (Unschooling); 136-12.3 (Digital
media)
136-12.3 (Digital media); 136-17 (Weapons)
Topics in civil law, customary law;
346 Private law; Weapons
Weapons
Weapons
Adult education
Weapons
DDC Number
381
400
560-590
580
610
620
623
630
640
640
650
660
680
780
Year
Exhibit
2012-2013
135-17.1, 17.1.1; 136-19.1, 136-19.2, 136-19.3 (Angiosperms)
2013
2013
2012-2013
2013
136-12.3 (Digital media)
136-17 (Weapons), 136-18 (Military engineering)
136-19.2, 136-19.3 (Angiosperms)
136-20.1 (Collections of recipes from specific restaurants)
Future Exhibits
Commerce
Cognitive linguistics; Prescriptive
and applied linguistics
Taxonomic classifications
Angiosperms
Dietetics; autism spectrum
Weapons
Angiosperms
Foods & cooking for health
2013
136-12.3 (Digital media)
2013
2013
136-17 (Weapons)
136-12.3 (Digital media); 136-21 (Concertos; keyboards vs.
accompaniment)
136-22 (Latin and Classical Greek miscellaneous writings)
135-8.1, 135-8.1a, 135-8.1.1, 136-8.1 (Special notation for
archaeology); 135-9.1 (Elam . . .); 135-9.2 (Scandinavia)
800
900
2013
2012-2013
Projects
Editorial Rules
Year
2012
MARC
Training
Editions/
Translations
Relocations/
Discontinuations
Conceptual
models
Linked data
Captions
Relative Index
RDA changes
DDC Research
WebDewey 2.0
DDC discovery
Machine-assisted
classification
2012-2013
2012-2013
Ongoing
Exhibit
135-7.1 (Segmentation); 135-7.2 (Oceans and seas); 136-7.1 (765
fields); 136-7.2 (References to notation in internal add tables)
135-22.1, 135-22.1.1 (Data provenance); 136-25 (Topic relationships)
135-27.1 (presentation)
135-24.1 (Edition metadata [presentation]); 136-24 (Edition metadata)
2012
135-28.1
2012-2013
135.23.1 (FRBR), 135-23.2 (FRSAD), 135-23.3 (presentation); 136-25
(Topic relationships)
135-25 (presentation); 136-27 (presentation)
135-22.2 (presentation)
136-26 (Synonyms)
2012-2013
2012
2013
2013-2014
Ongoing
2012-2013
2012
2013
135-26 (presentation); 136-28 (presentation)
135-28 (presentation); 136-29 (presentation)
135-29.1 (WebDewey Search [presentation]); 135-29.3 (presentation)
136-30.1 (AutoDewey [presentation]), 136-30.2 (Update on
methodologies [presentation])
Biotechnology
Weapons
Parallel updates to T2; Historical
periods; Periods for geographic
subdivisions; Archaeology
Future Exhibits
Oceans and seas; 769 Fields
Display of captions
Annotation scheme