What is dewey.info?

Dewey.info is an experimental space for linked DDC data. The initial data set available is a linked data version of the DDC Summaries in ten languages. The intention of the dewey.info prototype is to be a platform for Dewey data on the Web.

The ten main classes

Highlights

• Access to the top three levels of the DDC in ten languages
• Actionable URIs for every class of the DDC Summaries
• 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/64/2003/08/about.de

http://dewey.info/class/6/2003/08/about.de.rdf

http://dewey.info/class/6/2003/08/about.de.html

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

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.