#TIL but not surprised that the Dewey Decimal Classification, like many old things, is racist and bigoted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification
On #literature: “literature in European languages takes the entire range from 810 through 889, while the entire rest of the world's literature is relegated to the 890s”.
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#DeweyDecimalClassification #DDC #libaries #LibraryAndInformationScience #LIS #racism #bigotry
Bei den letzten zwei Vorträgen geht es im "Dewey Linked Data" von Tracy Arndt (@nabatz) und "Katalogisierung als Content Management – Integration eines Open-Source Headless CMS in eine Linked-Data-Umgebung" von Fabian Steeg.
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Related: The #DeweyDecimalClassification could be next. They already completed the name change of the #GulfOfMexico in one day, if I understand correctly.
And this is what it can look like. Has anyone ever seen a single day notice for comments from LoC? "I wanted to get the word out. The tentative list for changes to the Library of Congress Subject Headings, which I believe was only available to the public as of today, proposes changing "Gulf of
@genmon I hope that's not the only way of navigating through this data.
#Dewey is really a very bad idea in general and this dirty workaround should be replaced by more practical alterantives as soon as possible.
I really don't get it why so many people still use #DCC as hierarchy. Its structure is a frozen state of a hundred year-old bias which doesn't reflect our reality any more for many decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification#Influence_and_criticism
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