I'm engaged in the matter of trying to workout how we need to re-engineer our knowledge organisation concepts in the light of the generation of interfaces (if that is the right word) to catalogues (if that is the right word) now at ulrls, bl etxc, as well as KU.
Yesterday I found myself explaining to someone young, (if that is the right word) how a card catalogue worked or works, and knew I was making some short cuts, with author, title, dictionary, subject, and took a case, of music, into which I added history, biography, then some terms, such as baroque, and the range Elizabethan, Jacobean, Restoration, to explain how the dictionary element and the subject element, using Dewey, would work.
Now it might be that all this is nonsense, or it might be a way of organising knowledge which is better, but I wonder how many there are alive , grabbing a passing person a little younger than me, who has any memory of how a catalogued works? (if that is the right word)
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