Dewey Geekdom FTW!

[knitchick1979]

Okay so during class tonight we had an in-class assignment deconstructing Dewey Decimal numbers. Of course I finished before everyone else so then I had some fun.



I constructed Dewey numbers and looked up Cutter numbers for the Torchwood team.

Torchwood:

363.28309929 T676 OR 363.2830942987 T676

363.283 is the Dewey number for secret police, the first number adds the geographic number for extraterrestrial planets, the second is the geographic number for Cardiff county instead. I'm seriously thinking about asking my teacher if there's a way to combine two geographic numbers to more accurately reflect "secret police in Cardiff county dealing with extraterrestrials"

Captain Jack Harkness:

I was debating a little bit on this but I'm going with
358.40092529 H280

Air Force personnel would be 358.40 092 (the 092 being the subdivision for persons), and then 529 is the major DDC number for Time-Chronology, so I felt that would reflect that he's an Air Force Captain and Time Agent. I seriously debated dumping the 092 and throwing in the geographic division for England (0942 would be the replacement) to reflect Royal Air Force.


Dr. Owen Harper:

610.92 H293

Easy peasy, that's the number for physicians.


Gwen Cooper:

363.2092 C776

Another easy one, police officer.


Toshiko Sato:

621.39092 S253

Somewhat easy, that's the number for a computer engineer according to the relative index. :)


Ianto Jones:

651.3092 J77

This one was a little more difficult. Searching through the relative index I did not see an entry for butler or personal assistant, I debated using one of the numbers under slave but that doesn't quite fit either so I went with office worker.


Myfanwy:

567.918 M995

Easy peasy, that's the number for Pterandon.



And lastly just before class ended I was playing with Time Lord. I'd say probably 305.52252909229 -- 305.522 is the DDC number for royalty, 529 the number for time, and 09229 for "Pluto and transplutonian planets". I swear, the geographic table in DDC is *so* Sol-centric! No provisions for planets outside of this solar system! ;)


So there's my major geekiness for the evening.

Comments

[lilyofshalott]

SQUEEEEE!!!

And you have Cutter numbers, too! ^_^

I swear, the geographic table in DDC is *so* Sol-centric! No provisions for planets outside of this solar system!

Actually, I'm pretty sure there's a designation in Table 2 for other planets. I don't have the full thing, but I just checked the incomplete PDF my professor posted to Blackboard and it looks like —18 under the summary is "other kinds of terrestrial regions" and —19 is "space."

I remember someone in the class pointed out the number for extraterrestrial planets and asked if that was for fictional planets—the professor said it was just for real ones (to which I thought, "Pish, Gallifrey's a real planet!")

We did this on Tuesday! Although I *didn't* finish before everyone else and therefore didn't get to make up my own numbers.

(I really need to make some library icons that are sillier than the generic stacks ones I made for the RPG I was in. Have a woot-ing Eight instead!)

[knitchick1979.livejournal.com]

Yeah --19 is space in general, but --99 is extraterrestrial planets, which my teacher pointed out :)

I'm actually thinking about making a journal header with the Torchwood team and their Dewey & Cutter numbers :D Because I can.

I need to find more pictures of Jack reading, I need more than one Jack reading icon!

[booksavvy.livejournal.com]

I freaking love this. You are a cataloging FIEND! Look at those numbers! You are a technical services wiz!