Paul Rissen
Looking for examples of public/semi-public libraries or archives that use classification or organisation systems other than Dewey. Which are the most interesting ones, and do any attempt to show connections between concepts in a physical way? (e.g. string between sections)
May 16, 2025 at 6:52amWeb
Show threadTemporary DrawerMay 16, 2025

@r4isstatic From the top of my head:

Ahava Cohen from NLI: https://scholar.google.co.il/citations?user=AZUdYiMAAAAJ&hl=iw

EHRI/Yad Vashem's work: https://blog.ehri-project.eu/2019/07/03/integrating-new-data-methods-practice/

And The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (I'm not sure if Anastasia Glazanova wrote about the process but if there's a paper or a presentation somewhere you might be interested in these as well.)

Ahava Cohen

Hebrew Cataloguing Department, National Library of Israel - מצוטט/ת ב-10 מאמרים - RDA - cataloging - classification - indexing - library history

Show threadMiaMay 16, 2025
@r4isstatic most big libraries don't use Dewey. Our @BL_DigiSchol Research Software Engineer Harry did something you might find interesting, I'll check he's ok to share a link
Show threadMiaMay 16, 2025
@r4isstatic @BL_DigiSchol @harryl said yes, so take a look at https://bl-graph-rag.streamlit.app/ and scroll down to the visualisation
Show threadAspiringLudditeMay 16, 2025

@r4isstatic

The University of York uses it's own classification scheme, which may be specifically an in-house scheme.

Show threadFreso 🇵🇸Jul 22, 2025
@r4isstatic Swedish libraries are switching to Dewey (since 2008…), but their SAB-classifications are still in use in many/most physical libraries and still shown in library searches/lookups. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_library_classification_system
Swedish library classification system - Wikipedia