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Re: Candidates for _Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for Organizing the Web_
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Auld, Lawrence W. S.)
Mon Aug 21 20:16:39 2000
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From: "Auld, Lawrence W. S." <AULDL@MAIL.ECU.EDU>
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HI, Gerry. Are you familiar with inxight ( http://www.inxight.com/ )?
Take a look at their site map. Interesting approach, although it falls
outside the definition for Beyond Bookmarks.
-- Larry
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> From: Gerry Mckiernan[SMTP:GMCKIERN@GWGATE.LIB.IASTATE.EDU]
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> Subject: Candidates for _Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for Organizing the
> Web_
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> _Candidates for _Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for Organizing the Web_
>
> I am greatly interested in identifying additional Web collections
> that have adopted/adapted Library classification schemes or controlled
> vocabularies to organize Web resources. These will be reviewed for
> inclusion in my Web clearinghouse _Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for
> Organizing the Web_.
>
> _Beyond Bookmarks_ is available at:
>
> http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/CTW.htm
>
> I am not only interested in the application of international
> schemes such as Dewey and Library of Congress, but *national and local*
> library schemes as well. Of particular interest is the application of a
> *controlled vocabulary* for organizing or augmenting access to a Web
> collection.
>
> Among the sites that I have recently added is the AgNIC
> [ http://www.agnic.org ] site from the National Agricultural Library (NAL)
> that makes use of an internally-developed thesaurus titled "NAL
> Agricultural Classification Prototype "
> [http://agclass.nal.usda.gov/agdb70/index.htm ]
>
> As Always, Any and All contributions, queries, critiques, comments,
> questions, concerns, etc., etc. are Most Welcome.
>
> Regards,
>
> /Gerry McKiernan
> Theoretical Librarian
> Iowa State University
> Ames IA 50011
>
> gerrymck@iastate.edu
>
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