[Web4lib] Build the Open Shelves Classification

[Larry Campbell]

A good example of why, for an online browsing display, a faceted 
classification scheme finally comes into its own -- so that, with a 
click or two, you could rearrange the collection to show the book under 
either chicken recipes broken down by cooking method, or fried-food 
recipes broken down by type of food. Not perfect, and not necessarily 
easy to do, granted, but  a step up from the limitations of physical 
collections.

Larry Campbell
UBC Library

 

Dan Lester wrote:

>Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 3:17:31 PM, you wrote:
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>>No, I think mostly DDC. DDC is largely used by public libraries. The
>>public and academic needs are different. And LCC is already free.
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>Not defending DDC, but it isn't really expensive either.  And LCC
>isn't really free either.  Neither is perfect, nor will any
>classification ever be, particularly for all people for all needs.
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>Reminds me of an old DDC issue in Cataloging 412 some 44 years ago.
>In DDC (at least then) in the 640s there were subdivisions for "food
>being cooked", which could then be broken up by cooking method, as
>well as by "cooking method" which could be subdivided by type of food.
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>So, which place to put a book on "Best Fried Chicken Recipes"?  And
>why?   Write an essay......
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>dan
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