February 16th 2017 the University of Oslo Library sent a project application (pdf, norwegian) to the National Library of Norway (NB) asking for funding for a two-year project, Mapping for end-users. The project was granted money by NB May the same year.
The Mapping for end-users project is a direct continuation of the two-year project Mapping to Norwegian WebDewey, which received NB funds for the 2015-2016 period. For further information on this project, see the project application (pdf, norwegian) and the grant letter (pdf, norwegian), as well as the mid-term report to NB from October 2015, and the final report dated June 6th 2017. The predecessor of Mapping to Norwegian WebDewey was the project Tesaurus mapping in the project Towards a general Norwegian thesaurus?, cf. the final report (pdf, english).
Mapping for end-users will consist of three main activities: exploration, development, and mapping, which will run parallel and interfere with each other.
- Explore the knowledge organizational potential of mappings from an end user perspective
- Develop an interface for end-user tools that utilize mappings in subject searching
- Complete the mappings of the vocabularies Humord and Realfagerstermer to Norwegian WebDewey
Policy statement
- Policy statement (Norwegian: Styringsdokument for Mapping mot norsk WebDewey)
Data sources used in the project
- Humord (data-repo)
- Realfagstermer (data-repo)
- Norwegian WebDewey
- Catalogue data
- UBO's subject register to Dewey (data-repo)
Links and resources:
- Testing tool for comparing search results in Oria
- CCMapper
- Oria Pink Paradise
- Oria Blue Lagoon
- Humord subject search in Oria
- Realfagstermer subject search in Oria
- Norwegian WebDewey
Technology and standards used:
EDUG and guidelines for mapping
The project (like its predecessors) is an active participant in the European DDC Users Group (EDUG) cooperation, including development and maintenance of the Dewey mapping guidelines. Based on these guidelines, we've contructed some project-related working documents:
- EDUG's recommendations for best practice in mapping involving Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) (Version 20160616)
- Project-related check list for mapping (norwegian)
- Project-related sample collection for mapping (norwegian)
In connection with the EDUG Annual Meeting in 2015 and 2016, we organized a workshop on mapping, and contributed several presentations. The project presented the status of our mapping work on EDUG 2017:
- Mapping for end users (Karoline Hoff and Unni Knutsen, Bern 2018)
- Mapping to Dewey: Experiences from the Oslo team (Unni Knutsen, Paris 2017)
- Mapping to WebDewey: Knowledge organization in a rough terrain (Unni Knutsen & Dan Michael Heggø, Göttingen 2016)
- EDUG’s recommendations for mapping: Experiences from use and suggested revisions (Grete Seland, Göttingen 2016)
- Maintenance of mappings: Experiences from the Oslo team (Vibeke Stockinger Lundetræ & Grete Seland, Göttingen 2016)
- In search of a survival kit for mappers: Abstracting guidelines from complex mapping examples (Grete Seland, Napoli 2015)
- The mapping tool "ccmapper (concept context mapper)” (Are Gulbrandsen & Dan Michael Heggø, Napoli 2015)
Outreach (current project and precursors)
- Studenters søkeatferd i Oria Breakfast seminar at the University of Oslo Library, May 23rd 2018. Karoline Hoff, Vibeke Stockinger Lundetræ and Unni Knutsen
- Mapping for end users Presentation at EDUG April 26th 2018. Karoline Hoff and Unni Knutsen
- Mapping for sluttbrukertjenester Presentation at Biblioteksentralen, April 4th 2018. Kristine Aalrust Kristoffersen
- Mapping for sluttbrukertjenester Presentation at the BIBSYS Conference, March 21st 2018. Kristine Aalrust Kristoffersen
- Kunnskapsorganisering i ulendt terreng Pecha kucha at VIRAK 2017, the University of Oslo Library, 13. juni 2017. Kristine Aalrust Kristoffersen
- Mapping av emnevokabularene Humord og Realfagstermer til Norsk WebDewey Presentation at VIRAK 2017, the University of Oslo Library, June 13th 2017. Grete Seland
- Mapping mot Dewey. Presentation for employees at the University of Tromsø, May 15th 2017. Kristine Aalrust Kristoffersen
- Mapping mot Dewey Presentation for employees at the National Library of Norway, February 28th 2017. Kristine Aalrust Kristoffersen
- Popular science dissemination on the blog Statistrikk.no: Masker, mapping og en treffende metafor, February 20th and Mer masker og mapping, February 21st 2017. Grete Seland. Same theme at the Statistrikketreff March 29th 2017 at the Science Library (24:00 to 32:20 in the stream is about mapping)
- Hvorfor mapper vi? Anchoring of the mapping project. University of Oslo/Humanities and Social Sciences Libraries staff meeting, December 12th 2016 (printable version). Grete Seland
- Mapping mot Dewey Guest lecture for library and information science students at Oslo and Akershus University College, October 6th 2016. Kristine Aalrust Kristoffersen
- Norsk WebDewey – et verktøy i vekst. Guest blog at the National Library of Norways Dewey blog, August 23rd 2016. Grete Seland
- Principles underlying the EDUG recommendations for mapping involving Dewey. International Dewey Users Meeting, IFLA WLIC, August 16th 2016. Unni Knutsen
- Kunnskapsorganisering i ulendt terreng. Breakfast seminar at the University of Oslo Library, June 12th 2015. Grete Seland
- Dewey fra menneske til maskin. Kunnskapsorganisasjonsdagene 2015, June 1st 2015, Oslo and Akershus University College. Elise Conradi and Unni Knutsen
- På randen av mapping. Article in Bibliotheca Nova 4-2014, p. 36–46. Unni Knutsen and Are Gulbrandsen