How Should You Categorize Your Posts?
If you make your living brokering information like I do you soon find your are require to do quite a bit of research. That’s fine most of the time but I find that more and more often I’m frustrated by the unwieldy organization of information out there. In fact, much of it isn’t organized at all. Some of the folks with the best information are impossible to find because they don’t follow a structure to share their information. As a result, I frequently end up utilizing Library of Congress resources. I realize it is not the most up to date source but at least it is organized.
I have organized many of my own books and materials according to the same system. I am listing the general outline here to assist you in finding material and to provide a guide for organizing your own. Let’s face it, you can only go so far with alphabetical order and categories tags. Eventually I want all my similar topic data in the same location, much the way chapters in a book are focused on central ideas. In fact, that is the reason I have “somewhere between 000 and 299 in the Dewey Decimal System” on my home page. Because, much of Elemental Truths is about subject matter you would find in that category.
I’m planning to follow some form of the very old system listed below when I reconfigure. Let me know what you think.
Here goes.
A — General Works — collections, encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc.
B — Philosophy,Psychology, Religion — including logic, ethics, etc.
C — Auxiliary Sciences of History — history of civilization, archeology, genealogy.
D — History (General) and History of Europe
E — History: America — U.S local, British America, Dutch America, Spanish America
F — History:America — U.S., Latin America
G — Geology, Anthropology, Recreation — maps, physical geography, oceanography,anthropology
H — Social Sciences — statistics, economics,communities.
J — Political Sciences — local, municipal governments, political institutions
K — Law — general law, religious law, law of nations
L — Education — history, theory and practice, special aspects
M — Music and Books on Music — literature on music, music instruction and study
N — Fine Arts — visual arts, architecture, decorative arts
P — Language and Literature — linguistics, classical languages, modern languages
Q — Science — astronomy, physics, chemistry, zoology
R — Medicine — history, public aspects, training
S — Agriculture — plants, forestry, aquaculture
T — Technology — engineering, electronics
U — Military Science — infantry, cavalry, artillery
V — Naval Science — organization, administration, navigation, ship building
Z — Bibliography — writing, book industry, library