[Sigia-l] Dublin core subject and dewey decimal

[stephanie hornung]

that's an interesting thought.  what is your portal and who are your users?

my first reaction regarding dewey decimal is that is was meant to cover
everything in a library, but is rather biased (as is every taxonomy). 
would it fit your content or would its bias get in the way?  it could be
too general and/or too specific in certain areas.  plus, are people really
familiar with the dewey decimal system?  i don't know anyone who isn't a
librarian who could tell you anything about it aside from it being the way
books were organized in their elementary school library.  beyond that, its
just like any other taxonomy to them.

but again, i think we need more info.  at least i do...  :)

-s

Fortune Elkins said:
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>
>   best practice question: would I be insane to suggest that in
> implementing the dublin core on our portal that we adopt dewey decimal
> for the subject? I mean everyone, even the most naïve user, is familiar
> with it. Or is getting users to do this too much to ask? Of course we
> would tie the decimal choices into our system so users could choose from
> a database or something.
>
> Please advise!
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