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Dewey Breakfast ALA Annual Conference New Orleans, LA 24 June 2006. Using Dewey to Improve Access to Fiction. Julianne Beall Library of Congress Diane Vizine-Goetz OCLC Research. Fiction: broad and narrow definitions. Broad definition:
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Dewey BreakfastALA Annual Conference New Orleans, LA24 June 2006 • Using Dewey to Improve Access to Fiction Julianne Beall Library of Congress Diane Vizine-Goetz OCLC Research
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. • Dewey Decimal Classification http://www.oclc.org/dewey/
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 • OCLC Research http://www.oclc.org/research/