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Sunday, September 21, 2003 AP300.L8 S92 2001 I've been thinking about weblog classification again. I know, it's a pointless pastime that could be resolved by just inventing an entirely new classification system, but it's also a bit of a puzzle. So previously, I had mused about the Dewey Decimal System being a way to sort out weblogs. Well, there's more than one way to shelve a book--so how would the Library of Congress Classification fit into all of this? On first glance, LC looks a lot more flexible. It's using both letters and numbers. But even if it's used by research libraries everywhere, it's not intuitive. And the rules just make one's head spin. But here's the idea: we stick all weblogs in the section labeled "AP" which is reserved for general periodicals. The numbers after it usually go from 1 to 9999 but everything before 300 is already assigned. That leaves us with 300 to 9999 for which various subtopics for weblogs can be categorized. (Assigning numbers does not seem like a trivial exercise, however. We will leave that problem for the classification junkies.) After the decimal point, we can then use the author-title version of the cuttering method. For example, if John Doe has a weblog called Tractorblog, we can assign something like AP630.D64 T73 where D64 represents the author's last name and T73 represents the title of the blog. The last part of the LC call number is in four digits. It's the year that a book is published. For a weblog, we can use the date that it was first created. So let's suppose that John created his blog in 1999. Then his entire number would read: AP630.D64 T73 1999. But for some reason, I like the LC system even less than Dewey. Or maybe we should use ISBN numbers or even barcodes. Oh, wait a minute, there are already barcode generators on the net. [posted by S. Y. Affolee on 12:51 PM : ]
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