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Dewey Breakfast ALA Annual Conference New Orleans, LA 24 June 2006

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 Breakfast ALA Annual Conference New Orleans, LA 24 June 2006

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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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/

  12. 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/

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