WebDewey/Abridged WebDewey August 2004 Quarterly Update

WebDewey and Abridged WebDewey are updated quarterly. Both services contain the latest version of the schedules, tables, Manual, and Relative Index entries from their respective enhanced DDC databases. The hierarchical displays in WebDewey and Abridged WebDewey feature updated main class and division captions (e.g., 700 Arts & recreation; 790 Sports, games & entertainment).

The following interface change is now available in both WebDewey and Abridged WebDewey:

• Improved display of Dewey hierarchies! This enhancement features:
• Improved downward display of DDC hierarchies throughout schedule and table records, particularly the display of records that fall within a particular record's immediate downward hierarchy. [See example 1.]
• Double and triple zero subdivisions now appear in the downward hierarchies for schedule and table records. Additionally, when you click on the standard subdivision link in a record's hierarchy, you are no longer routed to the browse view. Instead, the applicable schedule record is displayed. (Note that the Browse button located in schedule and table records continues to offer you the option to browse the Dewey numbers with Captions index at any time.) [See example 2.]
• Improved display of upward DDC hierarchies throughout schedule and table records, particularly upward hierarchies that include centered entries, or spans.

Example 1

Example 2

WebDewey is a web-based version of the enhanced DDC 22 database. This August 2004 release includes:

• all updates to Dewey Decimal Classification, Edition 22, through July 2004 (corrections, new developments, new built numbers, and additional electronic index terms)
• thousands of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) that have been statistically mapped to Dewey numbers from records in WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) and intellectually mapped by DDC editors (through LCSH Weekly List no. 36, 2003)
• thousands of Relative Index terms and built numbers not available in print
• links from mapped LCSH to the LCSH authority records
• selected mappings from Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Abridged WebDewey is a web-based version of the enhanced Abridged 14 database. This August 2004 release includes:

• all content from Abridged Edition 14, through July 2004
• LCSH that have been intellectually mapped to Dewey headings by DDC editors, including mappings to Abridged Edition 13 numbers from the OCLC publication, Subject Headings for Children
• links from mapped LCSH to the LCSH authority records
• mappings between abridged Dewey numbers and subject headings from the 18th edition of H.W. Wilson's Sears List of Subject Headings

The next Dewey Services quarterly release is scheduled for November 2004.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Remember, OCLC Connexion already contains a number of keyboard shortcuts. If "Dewey Services" is your *active tab, the following shortcuts activate the following buttons:

*You can get to the Dewey Services tab in OCLC Connexion with the shortcut, <Alt>+<D>.
A WebDewey tutorial is available at: http://www.oclc.org/support/training/dewey/.
Details about WebDewey enhancements are available at www.oclc.org/dewey/updates/enhancements/default.htm