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You can read more from the initial announcement <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2008/07/build-open-shelves-classification.php">here</a>. </p><p>The OSC will be: </p> <ul><li> Collaboratively written </li></ul> <p>The OSC itself should be written socially--slowly, with great care and testing--but socially. See the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.librarything.com/groups/buildtheopenshelvesc">Build the Open Shelves Classification group</a>. </p> <ul><li> Collaboratively assigned </li></ul> <p>As each level of OSC is proposed and ratified, members will be invited to catalog LibraryThing's books according to it. Using LibraryThing's fielded bibliographic wiki, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.librarything.com/commonknowledge/">Common Knowledge</a>. </p><p>And include: </p> <ul><li> Progressive development </li></ul> <p>Written "level-by-level" (DDC's classes, divisions, etc.), in a process of discussion, schedule proposals, adoption of a tentative schedule, collaborative assignment of a large number of books, statistical testing, more discussion, revision and "solidification." </p> <ul><li> Public-library focus </li></ul> <p>Academic collections, being larger, are less likely to change to a new system. Also, academic collections mostly use the Library of Congress System, which is already in the public domain. </p> <ul><li> Statistical testing </li></ul> <p>As far as we are aware, no classification system has ever been tested statistically as it was built. Yet there are various interesting ways of doing just that. For example, it would be good to see how a proposed shelf-order matches up against other systems, like DDC, LCC, LCSH and tagging. If a statistical cluster in one of these systems ends up dispersed in OSC, why? </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Who_is_involved">Who is involved</span></h2> <p>The OSC Project is a collaborative effort by LibraryThing members. As Tim announced in this <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2008/08/open-shelves-classification-welcome.php">post</a>, the project will be coordinated by librarians <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.librarything.com/profile/laena">Laena</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.librarything.com/profile/conners">David</a>. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="How_to_get_involved">How to get involved</span></h2> <ul><li>Check out the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.librarything.com/groups/buildtheopenshelvesc">Build the Open Shelves Classification group</a>! Contribute to or start a new thread. The threads are where ideas are dicussed and hashed out.</li> <li>Check out the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://openshelvesclassification.blogspot.com/">Open Shelves Classification Blog</a> for the latest news about the project. </li></ul> <ul><li>Add to this wiki. The wiki is where the work of the group is documented and ideas are tested.</li></ul> <ul><li>Check out the Top Priorities section below to see what we are focusing on currently. </li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Top_Priorities">Top Priorities</span></h2> <ul><li> Setting the <a href="/index.php/Top_Level_Categories" title="Top Level Categories">Top Level Categories</a>. See the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=40857">thread</a> for background/disscussion/ideas/etc. </li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Other_Areas_of_Work">Other Areas of Work</span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/index.php/Proposed_Call_Number_Schemes" title="Proposed Call Number Schemes">Proposed Call Number Schemes</a> <br /></li> <li><a href="/index.php/OSC_Problems_and_Requirements" title="OSC Problems and Requirements">OSC Problems and Requirements</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Reference_Material">Reference Material</span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/index.php/Existing_base_schedules" title="Existing base schedules">Existing base schedules</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Visual_Maps_and_Relationships">Visual Maps and Relationships</span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/index.php/Map_of_OSC_Top_Levels_%26_Librarything_Top_Tags" title="Map of OSC Top Levels & Librarything Top Tags">Map of OSC Top Levels & Librarything Top Tags</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Thingology_Blog_Posts_about_Open_Shelves_Classification">Thingology Blog Posts about Open Shelves Classification</span></h2> <p><a href="/index.php/Listing_of_Thingology_Blog_Posts_about_Open_Shelves" title="Listing of Thingology Blog Posts about Open Shelves">Listing of Thingology Blog Posts about Open Shelves</a> </p>    </div><div class="printfooter"> Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php?title=Open_Shelves_Classification&oldid=14558">https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php?title=Open_Shelves_Classification&oldid=14558</a>"</div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div id="footer-navigation" role="navigation"> </div> <div id="footer-info" role="contentinfo"> This page was last edited on 10 April 2009, at 04:43. </div> </div> </div> <div id="mw-navigation"> <h2>Navigation menu</h2> <div id="toplinks" role="navigation"> <p id="syslinks"><a href="/index.php/Main_Page" title="Main Page">Main Page</a> | <a href="/index.php/wiki.librarything.com:About" title="wiki.librarything.com:About">About</a> | <a class="external" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents">Help</a> | <a href="/index.php/wiki.librarything.com:FAQ" title="wiki.librarything.com:FAQ">FAQ</a> | <span id="pt-login"><a href="/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Open+Shelves+Classification" title="You are encouraged to log in; 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