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[AndyGarbs]

[AndyGarbs]

everybody having a BBQ tonight ?

[AndyGarbs]

[AndyGarbs]

what will i put for the century post

[AndyGarbs]

something witty or drivel

[AndyGarbs]

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[AndyGarbs]

Trip to Tesco was very good

Found a nice shady spot while MrsAG stood in the queue !!! then joined her about 6m from the man in a headset saying 'OK go on'

1-way system in place, but not many people sticking to it

TV schedule - Series 5 of Ultimate Airport Dubai on NatGeo at 8pm and 9pm (2 episodes), just wondering where season 4 is ?

oooh drivel for century

nobody here

mine all mine

everybody having a BBQ tonight ?

what will i put for the century post

something witty or drivel

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drivel wins

[vetran]

Finally got around to doing the thing for the National Library of Scotland, for which I will eventually receive a £10 Amazon voucher. It was surprisingly hard! There were a whole bunch of things (44 IIRC), which you had to group into categories as you thought best, naming said categories. The idea is to inform the way they arrange the various collections on their website so people can find them easily.

Does material about the 2014 Scottish referendum go under Scottish Politics or is it now Scottish History? What about Mary Queen of Scots; she was a political issue in her day, but that's presumably history now.

The archive of Nigerian literature - does that go with Soviet posters (being foreign and arts-related) or with 18th century Scottish writers (being literature) or should it go in its own category?

Studies of book bindings - actual existing bindings, not doing it. Arts and Crafts, maybe? If so, does that category also include the archive of old recipes, and the archive of knitting patterns? Do those three things actually belong together? Would people think to look there for them? And maybe those Soviet posters should be in there too, along with the comic book and graphic novels collection, though graphic novel people insist they're literature and you don't want to annoy them; they're very vocal for a bunch of nerds

Anyway, all done and submitted. In a few weeks they'll send me a survey about their conclusions, and then I get the Amazon thing

Sounds like they need tags and a date window for history? i.e. tag as Nigerian & Literature or Scottish Parliament but not history yet as it is under decade old? Each area should be under its own classification the search is the thing, poor old Dewey.

[NickFitz]

Sounds like they need tags and a date window for history? i.e. tag as Nigerian & Literature or Scottish Parliament but not history yet as it is under decade old? Each area should be under its own classification the search is the thing, poor old Dewey.

Tags are useful supplementary metadata, but a national library can't have a website interface that's nothing but a list of tags - they need to impose some kind of structure on the collections. And although Dewey Decimal works well for putting things on shelves, they want to organise their website so that visitors looking for their collection of Antarctic explorer materials, or their scans of Ordnance Survey maps, or their archive of knitting patterns, can find them by exploring what seem to the visitor to be relevant areas of the site. Hence the exercise in finding out how real people categorise things, even if that turns out to be different to the way a librarian would do it

[ladymuck]

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Top drivelling there, sir