Taxonomies & Classification
proposed by guthrie
Course explores different kinds of taxonomies and classification systems, comparing and contrasting. To make it more fun, we focus on Good Subjects!: Southern California plant life and bird life, stock footage/photography and keywords, alchohol classifications and specifications, Internet folksonomies, different library systems (i.e. Dewey Decimal Classification), music marketing genres...
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I am really not qualified to teach this but I accidentally clicked the link and the website offers no way to undo this. I am still very interested in attending this class so...
27 Jan 2008 6:11PM
Perhaps it could a few different people teaching. I would be interested in teaching/discussing about classifications/taxonomies from a library and information science perspective as that is my current area of study.
21 Feb 2008 6:58PM
This class is now in the planning stage, after deliberation at The Public School committee meeting 02. The person who proposed the class has been contacted to finalize the details.
16 Mar 2008 8:14AM
I'm a taxonomist by profession; I don't think I could teach the whole class (I specialize in internet taxonomies, generally commercial) but if I can get some time away from work I might be able to present something.
8 Sep 2008 8:57PM