Classification of Skeptical Resources
SkeptInq@aol.com
Fri, 14 Aug 1998 08:58:50 EDT
In a message dated 8/13/98 12:59:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
kjetil.kjernsmo@astro.uio.no writes:
<< Subj: Classification of Skeptical Resources
Date: 8/13/98 12:59:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: kjetil.kjernsmo@astro.uio.no (Kjetil Kjernsmo)
Reply-to: kjetil.kjernsmo@astro.uio.no (Kjetil Kjernsmo)
To: skeptinq@aol.com
Hello!
Is there any chance you will forward this to the announcement list?
Kjetil
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Dear fellow Skeptics!
I am the webmaster of the site of norwegian skeptics at
<URL:http://www.skepsis.no/>. On this site, I tried to make a directory
tree that would make sure I would never have to move anything, just add
them. Recently, I started to research classification schemes like Dewey and
Library of Congress Classification Scheme among others, because
building a good directory tree proved difficult. I soon found however,
that none were quite appropriate for my purpose. Now, this was just my
story, more importantly, is the possibility of building a really good
catalogue of skeptical literature online.
I hope that the online skeptical community will join me in developing a
new classification scheme for online resources.
The benefit from doing this will have many aspects. It has of course the
obvious uses existing classification schemes have for printed material.
The primary purpose is though, to use it for online material. The use
of classifications for online material has to a large degree been
neglected, but I'm sure it will become important. We might use
it for classifying articles we publish on our servers, for establishing
Yahoo-style subject catalogues of links, and so on. In the future, data
included in web documents may be used to index all skeptical information
in a subject catalogue and search engine by a single carefully
designed robot.
We should make our classification easily implementable within W3C's
work-in-progress "Resource Description Framework"
<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-rdf-syntax/>, and have a close look on the
element sets that will be used in the future for metadata, such as the
Dublin Core set <URL:http://purl.oclc.org/metadata/dublin_core/>
To let the online skeptical community come together and discuss and build
the classification scheme, I have made a mailing list. I hope that people
with interest in the classification and especially librarians with
experience from other schemes will subscribe to the list and join the
discussion. To subscribe, send an e-mail to:
classification-request@lists.skepsis.no with the word "subscribe" in the
Subject:-line.
I will also make a homepage at
<URL:http://www.skepsis.no/english/classification/>
where the work will be described as it progresses, and all messages to the
list will be archived.
Also, please don't hesitate to forward this note to other skeptics or
skeptical forums where people may be interested in the scheme and/or help
building it.
Best Regards,
Kjetil
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Kjetil Kjernsmo
Graduate astronomy-student University of Oslo, Norway
mailto:kjetikj@astro.uio.no WWW-homepage:http://www.astro.uio.no/~kjetikj/
President, Norwegian Association of Physics Students Webmaster@skepsis.no