Projects

Projects involving European partners

The following projects involving one or more European organizations have a DDC component:

CrissCross
A project to create a multilingual, user-friendly, thesaurus-based research vocabulary. Subject headings from the German Subject Headings Authority File (SWD) are linked with DDC notations, which in turn are linked to the English Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and French Rameau subject headings.
HILT: High-Level Thesaurus
A series of projects to research, develop and pilot solutions for problems encountered when cross-searching different subject terminologies and classifications in an information environment containing multiple catalogues.

Other projects of interest

OCLC DeweyBrowser
A project to develop the use of the DDC summaries for information retrieval.
Making Visible the Invisible
An installation in Seattle Public Library which displays animation visualizations of check-out transactions, some based on the DDC numbers of non-fiction items.
World Digital Library
A project to make significant primary materials from cultures around the world freely available on the Internet in multilingual format. DDC will be applied to all item-level records, and DDC summaries in seven languages (plus the historical periods of India) will be included in the prototype.