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Anyone who has looked at the Dewey Decimal Classification would notice something interesting about the computer science section: there's pretty much no organization at all.^† If you were to trying to make a superior categorization of computer science texts, how would you organize it?

　

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^†http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes#000_.E2.80.93_Computer_science.2C_information_.26_general_works

>>1
I'd move all the useful books out of the "Computer Science" section and into the "Occult" section.

Tags and intelligent full-text search. Why apply workarounds for problems of prehistoric archival methods to systems where they no longer serve a purpose?

>>3

And how, do tell, do you plan to categorize these texts? It's one thing to just throw tags at a problem, but if you don't provide a standard set of tags for common categories, you end up with a mess of an organizational scheme.

To illustrate my point, imagine a hypothetical music torrent tracker. You could let people tag their torrents however they wanted. What would happen, then, if one person wanted to tag, say, an album of Gameboy music as "chiptune", while another tagged a similar album as "8bit"? Now, even though they both mean the same thing, searching for the two tags would give me entirely different results. Even worse, uploaders attempting to maximize search results might use both tags, creating redundancy. Now take this simple problem and magnify it hundredfold, and you have a small idea of just how big of a mess this system causes. That's not even taking things like misspellings and arguments into consideration.

With a little bit of foresight, this problem could be avoided simply by specifying standard categories from the start. With enough of these broad-sweeping categories, alongside more specific tags, our tracker could become quite pleasant to use.

>>4
Oh, wow, where do you live? Do they have electric lighting there yet? Or even fire?

Searches related to 8bit music
8 bit music download    chiptune
8 bit music maker       8 bit bands
8 bit music artists     8 bit weapon
8 bit music myspace     8 bit music radio

>>5

Forget it, your and idiot.

>>3,5

Just because we have tags doesn't mean we should dump all of our books into a great big pit.

Does anyone even still use DDC? I organise my library first according to language, then fiction/non-fiction, then alphabetically by the name of the (first) author, then chronologically in order of first publishing date.
I also maintain a separate public bookshelf where I keep my most prized books for visitors to comment on, in no particular order.

>>6-7
Sorry but there is no reason society should pamper you just because you cannot do intelligent text mining.

Who the hell even uses Dewey anymore? I thought that died years ago. The libaries I've been to in the past several years use LoC numbering.

Our public libraries usually use either UDC or SISO (Schema voor de Indeling van de Systematische catalogus in Openbare bibliotheken). They do this in addition to some sort of OPAC, which is usually a custom system, because this isn't an either/or problem.

>>11
Hello, Bun.

CS texts should go under 6.001, of course.

>>11
Zeg Ben, wil je nog een biertje pakken?

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