Library Cataloging
Movable Type
The folks using Movable Type have the ability to use categories, one reason I keep thinking of moving to that tool. Now the categories can have a hierarchical structure thanks to the plugin by Chad Everett. I find a tree structure is a handy way to move through data. Now MT users can provide that option to their users.
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Classification
Dynamic and hierarchical classification of Web pages by Ben Choi; Xiaogang Peng appears in Online Information Review (2004) v. 28, no. 2, pp. 139-147.Automatic classification of Web pages is an effective way to organise the vast amount of information...
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Scout Portal Toolkit
SPT (Scout Portal Toolkit) version 1.2.2 has been released, and is now available for download on the Scout web site.Highlights of this release include:support for editing and browsing multiple Tree (hierarchical controlled vocabulary) fieldsa new option...
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Blogging
The Semantic Blogging Demonstrator has a nice tree view available to his 'blog. I've always liked that structured approach to information. I liked Gopher. I'd like to see a tree view to classification numbers in our catalogs. The ability to...
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Subject Access
Auto-Categorization: Coming to a Library or Intranet Near You! by Tom Reamy.Simply put, automatic-categorization is a new type of software that assigns documents into subject matter categories based on a wide variety of techniques. These techniques include...
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Authority
After reading the paper Hierarchical Gaps and Subject Authority Control Processing: an Assessment I'm not so sure this is a good way to go, at least for us. The paper describes how they added LCSH records for all broader terms needed when they added...
Library Cataloging