Update: The Dewey Decimal System By the Numbers (December 2014)

025.431: The Dewey blog from the DDC team shares a few updated numbers about the classification in a recent post.
For example:

• DDC now has 40,159 EXPLICIT assignable numbers in schedules (including built numbers)
• 370 relative index terms were added during 2014
• 3,228 BISAC mappings are available.

The complete post can be accessed here.

Experimental Tools Using DDC from OCLC Research

• Dewey Religion Browser
  Browse, click and search WorldCat using DDC.

• CookFinder
  You can search by Dewey, person, place, topic (e.g., course, ingredient, method and more) and browse related works by author and topic.
• Fiction Finder

Fiction Finder is a works-based based application that provides access to millions of works of fiction described in WorldCat records for books, eBooks, audio books, movies and television. You can search by person, place, topic, genre, character, Dewey and more.

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