Dal Porto, Susanna and Marchitelli, Andrea (2006) Functionality and flexibility of traditional classification schemes applied to a Content Management System (CMS): facets, DDC, JITA. Knowledge organization 33 (2006)(1):pp. 35-44.

I just picked up the latest issue of KO here, and there is a really good article for people interested in the internal classification of websites.

One point which seems so obvious to me now is the idea of faceted categorizations of blog posts, or faceted folksonomies. Looking at the Italian cite Biblioatipici they use a set of seven fundamental categories, in between the number set out by Ranganathan and the Classification Research Group (CRG): Entities, Products, Instruments, Agents, Space and Time. Subclasses are entered freely under these.

So, here I am overjoyed, a way to cut a balance between pre- and post-cordinated order, right. Seems I am not the first one to make that connection.

I guess del.icio.us has that ability, but I never really made the connection between theory and practice, or the slightly different jargons on the web and in the literature.

A good article, discusses DCC and JITA as well.