Whois & Analysis for dewey.org

The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), or Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system first published in the United States by Melvil Dewey in 1876.

It has been revised and expanded through 23 major editions, the latest issued in 2011, and has grown from a four-page pamphlet in 1876.

It is also available in an abridged version suitable for smaller libraries.

It is currently maintained by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), a non-profit cooperative that serves libraries.

OCLC licenses access to an online version for catalogers called WebDewey.

The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) is a US-based nonprofit cooperative organization "dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs".

It was founded in 1967 as the Ohio College Library Center.

OCLC and its member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain WorldCat, the largest online public access catalog (OPAC) in the world.

OCLC is funded mainly by the fees that libraries have to pay for its services (around $200 million annually as of 2016).

In computer science, a library is a collection of non-volatile resources used by computer programs, often to develop software.

These may include configuration data, documentation, help data, message templates, pre-written code and subroutines, classes, values or type specifications.

In IBM's OS/360 and its successors they are referred to as partitioned data sets.

A system is a set of interacting or interdependent component parts forming a complex or intricate whole.

Every system is delineated by its spatial and temporal boundaries, surrounded and influenced by its environment, described by its structure and purpose and expressed in its functioning.