Directory of Classification Resources

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Subcategories

• Bliss Bibliographic Classification
• Colon Classification
• Dewey Decimal
• Library of Congress
• SuDocs
• Subject-Specific Schemes
• UDC

Resources in This Category

• Book Numbers

  http://www.miskatonic.org/library/book-numbers.html
  Explains how book numbers (also called item numbers) combine with collection numbers and class numbers to form call numbers.

• Broad System of Ordering (BSO)

  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/fatks/bso/
  A modern machine-held classification system embracing all fields of knowledge, useful as an aid to subject searching on the Internet or on any large information system covering the whole span of knowledge.

• Classification ML

  http://www.minilibrary.org/classification.htm
  General information about classification types and systems for small libraries.

• Faceted Classification

  http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/facetedclassification/
  Yahoo!Group for discussion of practices and theory of faceted classification.

• How to Make a Faceted Classification and Put It On the Web

  http://www.miskatonic.org/library/facet-web-howto.html
  Academic paper discussing methods of creating faceted classifications of small to medium-sized sets for websites.

• Lexical and Classification Resources

  http://cool.conservation-us.org/lex/
  Offers dictionaries, thesauri, classification schemes, and related matter primarily of use to those managing preservation libraries, and imaging projects.

• Using Library Classification Schemes for Internet Resources

  http://staff.oclc.org/~vizine/Intercat/vizine-goetz.htm
  by Diane Vizine-Goetz of the OCLC Office of Research. An OCLC Internet Cataloging Project Colloquium position paper. "To determine how well library classification systems compare to Internet classifications in terms of general topic coverage, categories 1-10 and 35-45 of Yahoo's 50 most popular categories were compared to DDC and LCC."

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