DDC in DSpace: Integration of Multi-lingual Subject Access System in Institutional Digital Repositories

• Published in: International journal of knowledge content development & technology Vol. 7; no. 4; pp. 71 - 84
• Main Authors: Roy, Bijan Kumar, Biswas, Subal Chandra, Mukhopadhyay, Parthasarathi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chungju Research of Knowledge Content Development & Technology 01.12.2017; 지식콘텐츠연구소
• Subjects: Automatic classification; Browsing; Dewey Decimal Classification; Digital libraries; Digital systems; Indexing; Information retrieval; Institutional repositories; Interoperability; Knowledge organization; Library and information science; Library associations; Library collections; Linked Data; Metadata; Multilingual systems; Multilingualism; Object recognition; Ontology; Open access; Repositories; Searching; Subject indexing; Terminology; User interface; Vocabularies & taxonomies; 문헌정보학; India
• ISSN: 2234-0068; 2287-187X
• DOI: 10.5865/IJKCT.2017.7.4.071

The paper discusses the nature of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOSs) and shows how these can support digital library users. It demonstrates processes related to integration of KOS like the Dewey Decimal Classification, 22nd edition (DDC22) in DSpace software (http://www.dspace.org/) for organizing and retrieving (browsing and searching) scholarly objects. An attempt has been made to use the DDC22 available in Bengali language and highlights the required mechanisms for system-level integration. It may help a repository administrator to build an IDR (Institutional Digital Repository) integrated with SKOS-enabled multilingual subject access systems for supporting subject descriptors based indexing (DC.Subject metadata element), structured navigation (browsing) and efficient searching.