{"id":2173,"date":"2007-11-05T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=426"},"modified":"2007-11-05T13:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T18:06:00","slug":"subjects-and-messes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/05\/subjects-and-messes.html","title":{"rendered":"Subjects and Messes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Coyle (again) <a href=\"http:\/\/kcoyle.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/our-subject-mess.html\">has written a great post<\/a> on the subject of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dewey_Decimal_Classification\">Dewey Decimial Classification<\/a> system, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Library_of_Congress_Classification\">Library of Congress Classification<\/a> system, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Library_of_Congress_Subject_Headings\">Library of Congress Subject Headings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She highlights what, to my view, is one of the major problems with all three of them : they are too complex for their own good.\u00a0 To structure classification and subject information in a straightforward, scalable manner is a daunting challenge.\u00a0 That we don&#8217;t have this structure is hurting us, and this will only get more prominent as time goes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Coyle (again) has written a great post on the subject of the Dewey Decimial Classification system, the Library of Congress Classification system, and Library of Congress Subject Headings. She highlights what, to my view, is one of the major &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/05\/subjects-and-messes.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2920,2943],"tags":[3054,3641,3337,3642,3643],"class_list":["post-2173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-libraries","tag-congress","tag-dewey-decimial-classification","tag-karen-coyle","tag-library-of-congress-classification","tag-library-of-congress-subject-headings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-z3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}