[Web4lib] Build the Open Shelves Classification

[Alain D. M. G. Vaillancourt]

I used to think this was a good idea, and sure,  it might be in a place
were you can't count on the subject headings.  But if you have solid
sun<bject headings (or tags or whatever you might want to call them)
then you casn use them in any kind of rearrangement you wish to permit
this type of browsing.  

You use the classification as a clear hierarchy or a clear structure
where all the linkages can be visible. If you play around with the
linkages as in a faceted clasification you lose the ability to
visualize things.  It's greast for people with good conceptual skills,
and awful for those (the majority of the population) who do things
better, anything better when they can see.

Alain Vaillancourt

--- Larry Campbell <larry.campbell at ubc.ca> a écrit :

> 
> 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:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>No, I think mostly DDC. DDC is largely used by public libraries.
> The
> >>public and academic needs are different. And LCC is already free.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >So, which place to put a book on "Best Fried Chicken Recipes"?  And
> >why?   Write an essay......
> >
> >dan
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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