i am afraid we cannot wait... Thanx again Stefano,
Cheers 2015-06-12 18:00 GMT+03:00 Stefano Bargioni <bargi...@pusc.it>: > I found this (a bit strange): > http://ddc.typepad.com/025431/2015/04/deweyinfo-is-coming-back.html > > On 12/giu/2015, at 16:08, Sergio Letuche <code4libus...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > dewey.info > > > > seems to be dead, we have also checked this. > > > > 2015-06-12 16:57 GMT+03:00 Péter Király <kirun...@gmail.com>: > > > >> Hi Sergio, > >> > >> As part of eXtensible Catalog we developed a Dewey module for Drupal, > >> which takes a Dewey number, and use OCLC's dewey.info to fetch the > >> textual description of the part. When it was created the service > >> contained only 3 levels of the classification system, since then they > >> went ahead, and now it is deeper. > >> > >> You can find the sorce here: > >> http://cgit.drupalcode.org/xc/tree/xc_dewey/xc_dewey.module?h=7.x-1.x > >> > >> Maybe it helps you. > >> > >> Regarding to UDC: it is much a harder task, and when I worked with it, > >> I run into a blocking problem, which is that UDC was not licenced as > >> freely usable, and I was not able to get a licence to use it in an > >> open source project. There were some other problems as well: UDC > >> changed from time to time, and sometimes it means, that a given > >> classification code means this thing in a given point of time, and > >> that thing some years later. The MARC catalog I worked with did not > >> contain any information about the UDC versions, so the accuracy of the > >> tool was not guaranted (of course you can do some intelligent > >> guessing). And the last problem was, that on contrary to the Dewey > >> classification UDC contains sometime very lengthy descriptions instead > >> of one or two words. Semantically it is OK, but makes the UI design a > >> little bit hard, and if you want to search for the textual > >> description, you'll end up sometimes with a "noisy" result set. > >> Otherwise to handle the operators, the subclasses, and all the nice > >> things UDC provides is a very interesting challange. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Péter > >> > >> > >> 2015-06-12 12:59 GMT+02:00 Sergio Letuche <code4libus...@gmail.com>: > >>> thank you very much for your quick reply, dear Stefano, > >>> > >>> i appreciate it > >>> > >>> 2015-06-12 13:47 GMT+03:00 Stefano Bargioni <bargi...@pusc.it>: > >>> > >>>> Hi, Sergio: > >>>> maybe this article [1 abstract] [2 English text] can give you some > basic > >>>> ideas. We added a lot of DDC info in our Koha catalog two years ago. > >>>> HTH. Stefano > >>>> > >>>> [1] http://leo.cineca.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/8766 > >>>> [2] http://leo.cineca.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/8766/8060 > >>>> > >>>> On 12/giu/2015, at 12:03, Sergio Letuche <code4libus...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> hello community! > >>>>> > >>>>> we are facing this challenging issue. We need to complete for a vast > >>>> amount > >>>>> of records, the dewey, UDC info, has anyone had any experience with > >> this? > >>>>> We need some way (via modeling? mahout?) to try and discover these > >>>> values, > >>>>> based on some text, found in the records' metadata, and then auto > >>>> complete > >>>>> these values. > >>>>> > >>>>> I would appreciate any feedback, if there is any opensource tool you > >> have > >>>>> used for this purpose, or if you are aware of any best practice for > >> doing > >>>>> this task. > >>>>> > >>>>> Best > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> __________________________________________________ > >>>> Il tuo 5x1000 al Patronato di San Girolamo della Carita' e' un gesto > >>>> semplice ma di grande valore. > >>>> Una tua firma aiutera' i sacerdoti ad essere piu' vicini alle esigenze > >> di > >>>> tutti noi. > >>>> Aiutaci a formare sacerdoti e seminaristi provenienti dai 5 continenti > >>>> indicando nella dichiarazione dei redditi il codice fiscale > 97023980580. > >>>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Péter Király > >> software developer > >> GWDG, Göttingen - Europeana - eXtensible Catalog - The Code4Lib Journal > >> http://linkedin.com/in/peterkiraly > >> > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Il tuo 5x1000 al Patronato di San Girolamo della Carità è un gesto > semplice ma di grande valore. > Una tua firma aiuterà i sacerdoti ad essere più vicini alle esigenze di > tutti noi. > Aiutaci a formare sacerdoti e seminaristi provenienti dai 5 continenti > indicando nella dichiarazione dei redditi il codice fiscale 97023980580. >
