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DDC Translations: An Update

DDC Translations: An Update. Dewey Breakfast/Update ALA Midwinter 21 January 2012 Dallas. Julianne Beall Assistant Editor, DDC Library of Congress jbea@loc.gov. Overview. DDC 23 Family: Editions planned / in progress Indonesian Abridged Edition 15

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DDC Translations: An Update

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  1. DDC Translations: An Update Dewey Breakfast/Update ALA Midwinter 21 January 2012 Dallas Julianne Beall Assistant Editor, DDC Library of Congress jbea@loc.gov

  2. Overview • DDC 23 Family: Editions planned / in progress • Indonesian Abridged Edition 15 • Vietnamese: Abridged Edition 14 first, now DDC 23 • Arabic DDC 23 • Swedish mixed DDC 23

  3. DDC 23 Family:Editions planned /in progress GermanDDC 23 FrenchDDC 23 ItalianDDC 23 Norwegian DDC 23 (2012) Arabic DDC 23 (2012) Swedish Mixed DDC 23 (2011) Afrikaans Arabic Chinese French German Norwegian Portuguese Russian Scots Gaelic Spanish Swedish . . . (2012) DDC 23 (2011) DDCSummaries (2011) Vietnamese DDC 23 (2013) Guide(French) (2012) 200 Religion Class (2012) A15 (2012) Indonesian A15

  4. Indonesian translation: Abridged Edition15 plus expansions from DDC 23 • Start with everything from Abridged Edition15 • Add records from DDC 23 for T2—5981-T2—5986 • Incorporate the full development from DDC 23 for 297 • Expand 305.899 to include notation from T5—9912, T5—992, T5—9922+, T5—9928, and T5—995 • Make a similar expansion based on the parallel T6 notation under 499 and 899 • Incorporate the full development from DDC 23 under 959.8

  5. Vietnamese translations: Abridged Edition 14 first . . . . • Abridged Edition 14 expanded in similar ways for the Vietnamese translation (published in 2006) • Interoperable expansions sometimes went beyond DDC 22 • Expanded notation and captions can be seen in the Abridged Edition 14 parts of dewey.info

  6. Vietnamese translations: . . . . now DDC 23 • Meanwhile, the National Library of Vietnam is working on a translation of DDC 23 • As before, parts will go beyond DDC 23, e.g., T2—597+ • Expected to be published in early 2013

  7. Arabic DDC 23 • New Arabic translation of DDC 23 under way at Bibliotheca Alexandrina • Publication expected by end of 2012 • Expansions of 297.1-.8 Islam will appear in 200 Religion Class and be incorporated in DDC 23 in WebDewey • Expansions for Koran, Islamic religious law, Mecca • Provisions for Shiite sects Alawis and Alevis now under review • Expansions for Islamic law in 340s under development

  8. Swedish mixed DDC 23 • DDC data in Swedish as framework • English-language classes from full edition to complete hierarchies • Standard terminology for instructions in the language of each record (e.g., “Klassificera här:” / “Class here”) • Separate indexes featuring the terminology available in each language • National Library of Sweden launched a preliminary version under the new WebDewey 2.0 interface in mid-December 2011

  9. 894.5722South Sámi literature(cont.)

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