Universal Decimal Classification (UDC)

Flexible Metadata Schemes for Research Data Repositories.The Common Framework in Dataverse and the CMDI Use Case

“…The tension between specificity of metadata schemes and a genericity which enables interoperability is nothing new (e.g., Guéret et al, 2013). We see similar debates around the emergence of universal classifications in the bibliographic domain at the beginning of the twentieth century (e.g., Dewey and UDC) (McIlwaine, 2010); reinforced with the introduction of automatization in classification and indexing (Svenonius, 2000); and reappearing in a different shape with the emergence of web services. Currently, (traditional) phrases as crosswalks, alignment, catalogues mark the quest for interoperability in the growing universe of domain specific ontologies, classifications, thesauri which become semantic artefacts when living in the web (Hugo et al, 2020;European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation et al, 2021).…”

Cataloging and Classification

“…112 A revised edition of The Universal Decimal Classification: A Guide to Its Use, by McIlwaine, was published by the UDC Consortium in 2007. 113 This edition did not represent a complete rewriting of the 2000 edition, but it did incorporate changes made through 2006 and presented updated examples. While the UDC is not used widely in North America, it continues to be popular internationally, and interest in its potential in automated applicationsfor example, as a mapping mechanism across domains or languages, or as a source of structured vocabulary-has grown in recent decades.…”