[Sigia-l] Dublin core subject and dewey decimal

[Listera]

Fortune Elkins:

>  my situation is familiar to you all: we are a small company that has
> grown huge quite rapidly (about 5 months), I mean from 300 people to
> 3500,

12X growth in 5 months is not normal, BTW. :-)

> Our legacy web pages have poor to zero metadata.

Fear not.
 
> We need to add metadata to make the legacy pages searchable,

That's one way of doing it.

For another view of why God created computers:

<http://www.autonomy.com/content/Products/IDOL/f/Classification.html#01>

<http://www.inxight.com/products/smartdiscovery/>

<http://www.clearforest.com/Products/IndustryModules.asp>

Etc.

> and also create a taxonomy for the future that users can select in the content
> management system. And of course we must do this in a short time and at
> relatively low cost.

For a company in 12X growth pattern, what's "low cost"? :-)

> establishing best practice isn't always easy in this regard.

It never is. Indeed, darn near impossible. Please see my sig. :-)
  
> This limited selection has some advantages, for example, it is an
> international standard everyone has used at some point in their lives
> already, 

I am willing to bet they don't remember a thing.

> being numbers it doesn't have to be translated into french or
> chinese, etc.  

Are you saying that your users would search/navigate via numbers?

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Ziya

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