how to best organise a large community "important" books library?

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Wed May 17 07:29:05 PDT 2017


On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 07:05:53AM -0700, Razer wrote:
> 
> 
> On 05/17/2017 01:34 AM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
> > On 05/17/2017 03:14 AM, Ben Tasker wrote:
> >> I guess your best bet would probably be to approach it like a physical
> >> library does.
> >>
> >> Divide by broad category/genre (so separate fiction and non-fiction,
> >> subdivide that into health etc)
> >>
> >> Then divide further by Author's name, perhaps dividing that further by
> >> the first two chars of the author's name
> > Dewey Decimal System, anyone? If it works for current real-world
> > libraries, why wouldn't it work for something like this?
> >
> 
> 
> My mutha wuz a Noow yorc publik skool liberian. Do-e Desmal wurks, then
> therz
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Classification

Thanks - I'll check it out.

It starts:

 https://github.com/zenaan/large-digital-library

 git://github.com/zenaan/large-digital-library.git




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