Member: pivy

It was nice to meet you too. Let's keep in touch about OSC thoughts.

posted by conners at 12:42 pm (EST) on Jan 30, 2009

I'm sort of a student of classification systems and would be curious to see yours if you so wished. Re the Open Source Classification, i wish the project success -- however, i don't think it will serve the purposes of my collection(s) all that well. But then i'm wierd. I'm kind of developing a general; classification based somewhat (with definite changes) on the Broad System of Ordering with other influences. I think it maybe it will work. I use the system more bibliographically than physically but ultimately it would be intended for both purposes. I sometime soon will have more clear comments about it on my web site -- tho not right this minute! ;) Anyway thanx for adding me as a friend!

posted by nautilus_library at 1:22 pm (EST) on Dec 11, 2008

PS- And altho we only share 5 books you have some authors that i really really like but are not currently in my library -- Margaret Atwood, Flannery O'Connor and Kurt Vonnegut quickly come to mind. When i was a music major in Georgia College (Milledgeville GA), Flannery O'Connor's alma mater, i had a job as a choir director at the local Catholic Church and Flannery O'Connor's mother, very elderly, was a parishioner and i met her once.

posted by nautilus_library at 11:29 pm (EST) on Aug 1, 2008

We only have 5 books in common, but i was reading your post about Dewey in one of the Build the Open Source Classification group's threads. And i see that you are sufficiently interested in classification that one of the books we share is "Sorting Things Out" by Bowker, which i've barely started but it looks interesting. I want to get into it when i have the time to get into it and absorb -- it's not the kind of thing i can just skim through lol. And i see one of the other books we share is the wonderful gem "Transit Maps of the World" -- i am a "transit buff".

I think the Open Shelves Classification is a great idea and i want to be as involved as i practically can. I agree with you about Dewey. Certainly it needs changing but -- it's way unbalanced on the way it does notation in some areas esp. the 200s and 400s -- but the patterns and the mnemonics are a great feature. Between Dewey and LC Dewey wins hands down i think. But there can be better. But OSC should use as simple a coding system as possible and definitely make use of recurring patterns.

Anyway, cheers!

Malik, the person behind nautilus_library

posted by nautilus_library at 11:23 pm (EST) on Aug 1, 2008