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 Designing a classification scheme
Author:John
Date:Friday, 27th Feb 2004 14:08
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Here's a topic to send you all to sleep! Does anyone know how to design and develop a classification scheme. I'm really just curious at the moment, but I wondered what steps would be involved, and what are the attributes of a good scheme. How could I check it to make sure it is effective?

You will wonder why I am asking. I am a qualified librarian but have little experience with classification. I have used the Wessex scheme as I work in the healthcare sector (this is a free system which can be found somewhere on the Internet).

I know there are specialised classification schemes out there for different sectors such as engineering, horticulture etc., but I look upon this as an intellectual exercise... at least, potentially
:-)

Any advice would be welcome.

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  Designing a classification scheme
Here's a topic to send you all to sleep! Does anyone know how to design and develop a classification scheme. ...
John 27/02/04 14:08 27803
   Re: Designing a classification scheme
In a specific subject areas, I think it's important to consider possible differences between conceptual or theoretical divisions in the ...
Sue Harris 16/03/04 09:30 28018
   Re: Designing a classification scheme
Thanks for all your replies! I hadn't read this thread for a while as I sort of assumed not many ...
John Robinson 15/03/04 15:52 28009
   Re: Designing a classification scheme
Hallo John This takes me back to my Library School days when my classification tutor was a great guy called Jack ...
Gil Richardson 02/03/04 11:48 27841
    Re: Designing a classification scheme
That name rings a bell! NWP?
Alan Pritchard 05/03/04 11:30 27883
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I thought he was Ealing CAT in the mid- seventies.
Atalanta 08/03/04 19:45 27915
      Re: Designing a classification scheme
You are both right. He moved from NWP to Ealing about 1965 but I do not know when he retired.
Chris Kirby 09/03/04 10:47 27923
      Re: Designing a classification scheme
You may be right. My memory is not what it was .
Alan Pritchard 09/03/04 06:42 27916
       Re: Designing a classification scheme
I worked with him from 1974 - 1976. I believe he retired and/or died soon after that. I think the ...
Atalanta 09/03/04 21:14 27940
        Re: Designing a classification scheme
I too remember Jack at Ealing - he gave me a recipe for ginger wine (take a cat by the ...
Sue Stranger 17/03/04 12:34 28046
   Re: Designing a classification scheme
Hi John, Interesting one this. I am just in the process of designing a scheme for a bibliography that I am ...
Alan Pritchard 02/03/04 10:06 27838
   Re: Designing a classification scheme
I have had to do this in the past, but only for a tiny extension to an existing scheme ( ...
Atalanta 27/02/04 21:37 27815
    Re: Designing a classification scheme
Thanks for that Atalanta. It certainly looks very difficult!
John R. 01/03/04 14:00 27828

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