Dewey Decimal Classification / Linked Data

What is dewey.info?

Dewey.info is an experimental space for linked DDC data. The intention of the dewey.info prototype is to be a platform for Dewey data on the Web.

The ten main classes

000 Computer science, information & general works 100 Philosophy & psychology 200 Religion 300 Social sciences 400 Language 500 Science 600 Technology 700 Arts & recreation 800 Literature 900 History & geography

Highlights

Access to the top three levels of the DDC in twelve languages
Access to Abridged Edition 14 (assignable numbers and captions) in three languages
Actionable URIs for every class
Classification semantics encoded in SKOS
Representations for machines (RDF) and for humans (XHTML+RDFa)
Different RDF serializations (RDF/XML, Turtle, JSON)
Exposed SPARQL endpoint
Data is reusable under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license

Some Examples

http://dewey.info/class/641/

http://dewey.info/class/641/about.rdf

http://dewey.info/class/641/2009/08/about.fr

http://dewey.info/class/64/2009/03/about.de

http://dewey.info/class/6/2009/03/about.de.rdf

http://dewey.info/class/6/2009/03/about.de.html

http://dewey.info/class/6/e22/about

http://dewey.info/class/641.5/a14/about (Generate an SVG label for this class.)

Further information

A general overview of the service can be found here, a slightly more technical description is available on the OCLC Developer Network wiki. Or just dive in by clicking on one of the main classes above.

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