On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Dave Fawthrop wrote:
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:49:32 -0700 (PDT), Andrew Sly <sly@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
| |I've just sent a message to the PG catalog list exploring |categorizing posibilities for PG. | |I've put a copy of it at: |http://www.victoria.tc.ca/~sly/pgcat.txt |
Just a plea for Dewey Decimal. http://www.oclc.org/dewey/
As I say in my message:
Dewey-Decimal Classification
This appeals to me for being strongly language independent. That is, this could be perhaps the easiest way to classify PG texts, which could, in the future, be translated into different interfaces in different languages.
Drawbacks: Intellectual rights claims may limit usage. (OCLC claims rights to use this system and licences it out to libraries.)
A while ago, the Internet Public Library had a large index of online books, organized on a dewy-decimal system. I wonder if pressure from OCLC had anything to do with it disappearing. Andrew