Abstract:
Information Retrieval in the Web remains a puzzling challenge
despite the development of so many search engines and metasearch
engines. Library classification schemes have been
devised with the aim of organizing the collection to make the
retrieval easier. As there is a shift in the focus of libraries the
role of classification schemes are also changing. Can they be
used in organizing the Web? What are the key advantages?
And what are the current practices? The paper tries to explain
these issues emphasizing on the use of Dewey Decimal
Classification.
