Alex Kyrios

The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), used in 200,000 libraries across 140 countries, has entered a new age, primarily maintained today as a continuously revised electronic system rather than an occasionally updated set of print volumes. Its editors have added newly emerging topics and made it an increasingly faceted, semantically rich, modern system. Simultaneously, the editorial process has become democratised and...

The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), used in 200,000 libraries across 140 countries, has entered a new age. It is primarily maintained today as a continuously revised electronic system rather than as an occasionally updated set of print volumes. Its editors have added newly emerging topics, making it an increasingly faceted, semantically rich, modern system. Simultaneously, the editorial process has become...