FWD: Bye-bye Dewey

[Mike Weaver]

Computer cataloguing does away with the need for tagging - the keyword 
search replaces Dewey categorisation. Tagging is still nice, but not 
necessary...


>[CS] Bye-bye Dewey
>Whereas the old, Dewey-style taxonomies  involved graybeards
>figuring out in advance how things should  be categorized, tagging
>is done on the fly, adapting to the  content itself. What's more,
>because all this is digital,  there's no limit to the number of tags
>people can slap on an  item. In a library you can put 'Frederick the
>Great' in the  history or the biography section, but you'd need a
>second copy  to put it in both.