LOC classification?
2003-09-22 23:56:55.872272+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
It has been widely reported that the owners of the Dewey Decimal System have sued a New York Hotel for trademark infringment. There's been the usual back-and-forth, the "how can someone own something we've known and loved..." whining, but it seems to me that the case is pretty strong, the system gets updated, it refers to a specific cataloging system. The Online Computer Library Center seems to have a legitimate claim.
But this news connected some neurons. I've generally preferred the Library of Congress Classification System, and I'm wondering if maybe that would make a good weblog categorization system... Anyone know what sort of legal attachments there are to that hierarchy?
And whether, in light of ISO rumblings about licensing things like country codes, it might be worthwhile to adopt some of the MARC systems?