Thanks a lot John
I must have been looking at the old version, which is not useful enough
(have to watch my words) for organizing contemporary information from
a web centric viewpoint (01)
No intent to offend or defend, just compiling lists at the moment...
(lists lists list, categories categorirs categories, taxonomies,
taxonomies taxonomies)
pdm (02)
On Feb 12, 2008 9:22 AM, John F. Sowa <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Paola,
>
> The Dewey Decimal Classification was originally set up in 1870,
> so if you look at the top level, it certainly does look old
> fashioned and rather unbalanced. For example, the range of
> numbers from 201 to 289 are devoted to Christianity, and all
> other religions are squeezed into the range from 290 to 299.
>
> However, the only difference that a new top level would make is
> to reduce some of the finer classifications from 6 or 7 digits
> to 5 or 6 digits. That change is not worth the upheavals that
> would be caused by replacing all the old numbers.
>
> > I am going through the Dewey Index, and it looks terribly
> > outdated does anyone know of updates/scheduled maintenance?
>
> The OCLC bought the rights to it in 1988, and they have been
> producing new extensions and updates. They have a web version
> that is updated continuously. See
>
> http://www.oclc.org/dewey/
> Dewey Services [OCLC - Cataloging and Metadata]
>
> I have no vested interest in the DDC, and I have no intention
> of defending it against any other choice. But I don't believe
> that the unbalanced top level creates much, if any problem.
>
> John
>
>
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