On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I'm involved in a pan-European project
> for cooperative indexing of physics related
> resources.
> For physics we have at least five different
> classification schemes to choose from
> but we aren't really that happy with any
> of them, so we might have to come up
> with something better.
> At least we will have to optimize one
> of the old ones since most of them
> mix up the subject classification scheme
> (SUBJECT) with the resource type (TYPE).
>
> Could perhaps someone point me to a
> web site, mailing list, article, etc
> where features of classification schemes
> to be used on the Internet are discussed?
> Of interest is also the possibility to
> use distributed taxonomies or "meta structures"
> to be used for distributed navigation.
You might want to look at the recently published report:
"The role of classification schemes in Internet resource description and
discovery" by Traugott Koch, et al.
This was produced as part of the DESIRE project.
<URL:http://www.ub.lu.se/desire/radar/reports/D3.2.3/>
It looks at different types of classification schemes in use currently on
the Internet and contains a fairly detailed bibliography which should give
you information on other publications.
Michael Day
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