[WEB4LIB] Re: Use of DDC in web displays

[Tony Barry]

At 4:07 AM -0800 28/12/2000, Jerry Kuntz  wrote:
>In the electronic environment, what's the advantage of symbolic 
>organization systems vs. subject taxonomies and keyword searching?

A subject taxonomy _is_ a classification. It the ."broader than", 
"narrower than", relations are made sufficiently rich then a 
thesaurus contains an embedded classification.

In the end they are networked subject spaces to which documents are 
attached. The physical nature of books force you to attach a book to 
only one node. The net frees you from this impediment and a document 
can bet attached to many places.

I have speculated that one way to organize a virtual library on the 
net is for the librarians to manage the concept space and the users 
being the ones who attache the documents. The reverse of the library 
practice where the librarians attach subject terms to documents. 
Instead the user community attaches documents to subjects 
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