Classification Schemes Revisited Applications to Web Indexing and Searching

• Published in: Journal of Internet cataloging Vol. 2; no. 3-4; pp. 143 - 155
• Main Authors: Broughton, Vanda, Lane, Heather
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Binghamton, NY Taylor & Francis Group 31.05.2000; Haworth Press
• Subjects: Bliss Bibliographic Classification; Classification; Classification schemes; Content analysis; Exact sciences and technology; faceted classification; Indexing. Classification. Abstracting. Syntheses; Information and communication sciences; Information and document structure and analysis; Information processing and retrieval; Information science. Documentation; Internet; Internet resources; Sciences and techniques of general use; Search engines; Searching; subject indexing; World Wide Web; United Kingdom; Europe; Subject index; Decimal classification; Faceted classification; Information organization; Classification; World wide web; Higher education library; Information retrieval; Internet resource; Indexing
• ISSN: 1091-1367; 1528-7017
• DOI: 10.1300/J141v02n03_09

Basic skills of classification and subject indexing have been little taught in British library schools since automation was introduced into libraries. However, development of the Internet as a major medium of publication lias stretched the capacity of search engines to cope with retrieval. Consequently, there has been interest in applying existing systems of knowledge organization to electronic resources. Unfortunately, the classification systems have been adopted without a full understanding of modern classification principles. Analy-tico-synthetic schemes have been used crudely, as in the case of the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC). The fully faceted Bliss Bibliographical Classification, 2nd edition (BC2) with its potential as a tool for electronic resource retrieval is virtually unknown outside academic libraries.