I just saw a link to OCLC's new Classify project this morning:

http://deweyresearch.oclc.org/classify2/

While I'm sure it's been in the works for a while, I'm wondering if they're feeling some motivation to make some classification data more freely available & accessible.

It doesn't really relate to what's going on with the OSC, but I thought people here might be interested.

That's awesome. I love anything that tries to take the work librarians have been doing for decades and use that data in new ways.

I certainly hope they'll share. To me, it does relate, because it hints at an approach where using stats about existing classification systems could be used to build better ones.

Message edited by its author, Jul 10, 2008, 6:40pm.