[Sigia-l] Dublin core subject and dewey decimal

[Alexander Johannesen]

Hi,

On 8/30/05, stephanie hornung <stephanie at dehfne.com> wrote:
>  i assumed that it was
> meant for use in some sort of tagging process, so items would show up in
> the portal correctly, but i don't know. 

In library speak, that's called 'free tagging' which is very, very,
incredibly far from using DD for anything. DD is a classification
scheme with a lot of motorics built in, and it is so huge and complex
that librarians with 20 years of experience with it still hasn't
grokked it properly. It is massive, and we want to get away from it.
It's becoming a relic of the past.


Alex
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