(OT) [UA] classifiactions

[Timothy Ferguson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu [mailto:ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu]On
> Behalf Of John Scott
> Sent: Thursday, 28 June 2001 12:25 AM
> To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
> Subject: RE: (OT) [UA] classifiactions
>
>
> At 22:01 26/06/01 +1000, you wrote:
>
> >That's a fair call, because they fit under "misecellaneous imaginary".
> >
> >Usually they'd go in Disputed Knowledge - that funky area up in
> the low zero
> >numbers...next to the computing books.
>
> You using DDC 19, Tim?  DDC21 now calls the 000s "Computing, Information
> and General Reference".

No, I'm using DDC21, I just have a  smaller library than you, so when I say
010-090 are "near" 000-010 for me they are.  8)

Disputed knowledge is still in the 0 decile.  It's where the witchcraft
books hang out, just before religion.

> (It might be)Ob UA - it's not usually done, but it is possible to get
> _very_ specific on a DDC number.  For example, you can specify
> the country
> a book is about by using 09nn (where nn is the country
> designation) in the
> post decimal point section of the number.  If you classify books
> as much as
> possible, then you can easily end with DDC numbers running to 20 decimal
> places.

You can go past country and to town, for example my suffix is 9947651, I
believe.  I havn't beenp aid to do that sort of thing in a while, so I've
forgotten.

> Or you could use them to send a message.  "The secret hiding
> place is in a
> bar called "The Middle Ages" in Tucson, Arizona" is, IIRC, possible to
> encode in DDC.

Scary, yes, you -could- do that.


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