At 12:30 22/11/00 +0000, Susannah Wake wrote:
>Dear Elizabeth and list members,
>
>Thank you for your response. The answer to your question is that we are
>going to put together a web page for classification and subject schemes.
>There is such a degree of overlap between these schemes and thesauri that
>you're right it is essential to make this point. So no, we do not see these
>as separate entities at all. In fact a classification scheme could be the
>basis of a resolution to the problem we are looking into.
I havent read the previous discussion in this list so I'd better do that
before
saying things that have proabably alreday been said.
The thesaurus page
>
>was only put together in the last day or so. We're working on the others.
>However, we would welcome any links you could provide us with.
>
right, these 3 are well known I think, but to avoid searching ...
MSC (mathematics subject classification) http://www.ams.org/msc/
CCS (computing classification system) http://www.acm.org/class/1998/
PACS (Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme)
http://publish.aps.org/PACS/pacsgen.html
>Also, thanks to those who sent links to thesaurus sites. They have been
>added to the page:
>
>http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/Sources/thesauri.htm
>
>In my previous e-mail I briefly described what the HILT project was about.
>
>http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/AboutHILT/overview.html
>
Good luck anyway
Cheers,
Elizabeth
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