Categorizing PG content
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 Any extensive discussions might be better placed on the gutcat list. To subscribe, see: http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi Andrew
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 | |Any extensive discussions might be better placed |on the gutcat list. To subscribe, see: |http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi Just a plea for Dewey Decimal. http://www.oclc.org/dewey/ -- Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk> "Intelligent Design?" my knees say *not*. "Intelligent Design?" my back says *not*. More like "Incompetent design". Sig (C) Copyright Public Domain
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
I've got a first prototype up. Keep in mind I've only spent about half an hour on this so far, but I wanted to get something out so that it's not pure vapour. I don't have a lot of bandwidth on this host, so please don't do anything like trying to index/crawl the site. The code and database are available for anyone who'd like to see it. http://www.joeysmith.com:8080/ Some things I should point out: 1) The database model isn't where I want it yet. It only supports the parent/child level of tag nesting. 2) I only seeded it with 1000 books to start. 3) I seeded the tag list with just some VERY basic tags initially. special/untagged - All books have this tag special/none - This is a placeholder. It will probably not be in future releases. special/all - Also a placeholder. language/ - This is a list of all the languages we have books for. 4) This is still in the beginning stages, so the add and remove tag links do not yet work.
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