{"id":2348,"date":"2008-07-09T19:02:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T00:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=580"},"modified":"2008-07-25T18:49:23","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T22:49:23","slug":"classify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/09\/classify.html","title":{"rendered":"Classify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/deweyresearch.oclc.org\/classify2\/\">Classify<\/a><\/strong> is a new service from OCLC which returns class numbers (Dewey, LC, and National Library of Medicine) assigned to books in WorldCat.  This could be a good way to use the &#8220;wisdom of the crowd&#8221; when you are not 100% sure where to group a particular book.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed that the url had a &#8220;2&#8221; at the end, so I removed it to see what would happen.  <a href=\"http:\/\/deweyresearch.oclc.org\/classify\/\">It appears to be an earlier version of the service<\/a>.  I didn&#8217;t have any luck with the first few ISBNs I entered, but the example links work well.<\/p>\n<p>Any other changes to the url bounce the user to the <a href=\"http:\/\/deweybrowser.oclc.org\/ddcbrowser2\/\">DeweyBrowser<\/a>, which is a lookup service from a couple of years back.  Although it also has a &#8220;2&#8221; at the end of the url, nothing happens when one changes it.  So much for rewarding curiosity \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Classify found via <a href=\"http:\/\/orweblog.oclc.org\/archives\/001702.html\">Lorcan Dempsey&#8217;s weblog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classify is a new service from OCLC which returns class numbers (Dewey, LC, and National Library of Medicine) assigned to books in WorldCat. This could be a good way to use the &#8220;wisdom of the crowd&#8221; when you are not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/09\/classify.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2922,2923,2943,2944,2949,2952,2965],"tags":[3881,3882,3883,3290,3942,3884,3885,3642,3886,3006,5363],"class_list":["post-2348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cataloging","category-classification","category-libraries","category-library-20","category-oclc","category-online-services","category-search","tag-classify","tag-ddc","tag-dewey","tag-dewey-decimal-classification","tag-dewey-lc","tag-deweybrowser","tag-lc","tag-library-of-congress-classification","tag-lorcan-dempsey","tag-national-library-of-medicine","tag-oclc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sSU5g-classify","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}