When teaching and writing about the classification of documents ('bibliographic classification'), I try to remember to make the point that document classifications very often draw from, and less often contribute to, more general classifications and taxonomies of knowledge, and of entities in the physical world. So it is worth keeping an eye on classification in… Continue reading Changing classifications
Tag: mineralogy
Rocking documentation
There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows and they flow From form to form and nothing stands; The melt like mists, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves… Continue reading Rocking documentation
The Occasional Informationist 