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ALA Midwinter21 January 2012

Dallas

Michael PanzerAssistant Editor, DDCOCLC panzerm@oclc.org

Storyboarding user contribution of built numbers

Storyboarding user contribution of built numbers

MotivationMotivation

- Provide a way for users to save numbers they have built in WebDewey

- Personal and institutional built numbers

- Provide a way for users to contribute numbers they have built

- Components and steps in the number building process should be saved in well-formed 765 fields

- Eases editorial evaluation for inclusion in the classification as “official” built numbers

- Makes it possible to integrate such numbers into search and display in the local copy of WebDewey

- Number building assistant seems best way to ensure validity

Number building assistant: RequirementsNumber building assistant: Requirements

- Can be used even without intention of saving the number

- Parses most add notes and other instructions to guide the user and construct MARC 765 fields in the background at the same time

- Component information is used to display how a number was built in a user-friendly way

- Helps the user in adding index terms to a saved built number

MARC

LDR nw###n##

001 ocd00168684

003 OCoLC-D

005 20110326173550.0

008 100204aaaaaabb

040 ##  $a OCLCD $b eng $c OCLCD

084 0#  $a ddc $c 23 $e eng

153 ##  $a 796.522092 $e 796.522  

765 0#  $b 796.522  $z 1 $s 092  $u 796.522092 

750 #7  $a Mountain Climbing  $x biography

750 #0  $a Mountaineering $x biography

MARC view

Standard SubdivisionStandard Subdivision

765 0# $b 796.522 $z 1 $s 092 $u 796.522092

Add noteAdd note

765 0# $b 073 $z 2 $r 43 $s 912 $u 073.912

Add to base number [$b] 073 the numbers following [$r] T2--43 in notation T2--431-T2--439 from Table 2, e.g., journalism and newspapers in Austria 073.6

Showing where add instructions are foundShowing where add instructions are found

765 0# $b 796.522 $z 1 $a 093 $c 099 $z 1 $s 09 $u 796.52209

Add to base number [$b] T1--09 notation T2--3-T2--9 from Table 2, e.g., the subject in North America T1--097, in Brazil T1--0981; ...

765 0# $b 796.52209 $z 2 $s 73 $u 796.5220973

Feedback?Feedback?

- How could this tool be most helpful?

- Do you want a way to build numbers manually (bypassing the assistant), with or without 765 fields?

- How should the process of manually creating numbers without using 765 fields work?

- Would you still like to save such numbers (including seeing them in the hierarchy)?

- How strongly should the user be guided through the number building process?

- Migrate numbers currently saved as user comments?