Sarah,
We discontinued with DDC for two reasons, one the licensing problems and two due to the subject areas we were working in the early years most content got placed in one or two categories that caused problems with the browse/search functionality.
We now use the JACS system that users have reported easier to work with due to the subject/topic based nature of the classification.
Regards,
Ben
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Dr Ben Ryan
HLSI Software Development Manager
University of Huddersfield
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sarah Currier [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 09 March 2005 14:43
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Subject: Questions re 9. Classification: Second one
Hi again,
I originally sent this query to the LOM-Cataloguing list but only got one relevant response. So I'm trying again here, in case I have more luck! Apologies to those who are on both lists (or see it as extra nagging if you have a relevant answer and haven't replied yet ;-) ).
Just wondered if folk could say what (if any) universal or general subject classification scheme they are using to classify learning resources within the LOM? We are trying to decide on one universal scheme for our repository, mainly for interoperability purposes rather than for our own users (i.e. we will probably auomatically populate this classification field with whatever the "social work" classification is from the given scheme for when sharing/exposing records or resources).
And add others where (rarely) needed when checking metadata records.
We are looking at the top 2/3 levels of DDC (did the licensing problems with this ever get sorted?), or JACS, or the top 2/3 levels of learnDirect.
If someone else has looked into this recently or knows of a source of such information, please point me in the right direction!
Thanks in advance,
Best
Sarah
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"A Storehouse of Learning Resources for Social Care"
Dept. of Social Work, University of Strathclyde
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