[Data-modeling] Library of Congress and Dewey Classifications

[Jeff Prucher]

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> [mailto:data-modeling-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Scott Meyer
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 2:48 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Data-modeling] Library of Congress and Dewey 
> Classifications
> 
> Praveen Paritosh wrote:
>  
> > For the top level 1000 of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) 
> > numbers, we have a number and a label[1], e.g.,
> > 	121 Epistemology (Theory of knowledge)
> 
> It would be a shame not to give one of the oldest and most 
> successful ontologies around first class treatment.  Seems 
> like we might want to create Dewey Integer topics and stow 
> the decimals separately.

Can you expand on how that would work? Are you suggesting that we have two
properties on "book" -- one for the three-digit (topicized) value, and one
for the decimal (string) value?

Jeff