Abstract:
Today, the Internet is a popular media for information
communication. Like a library it is a storehouse of information
albeit in electronic format. But the amount of information
available on the Internet is vast and unlike the library, the
information is disorganized, chaotic and without systematic and
semantic structure whatsoever. Due to which the users often end
up with irrelevant results for their queries. Classifying and
cataloguing the Internet would be a step forward in organizing
it. This paper examines the need for classifying the Web
resources; looks at the pros and cons of using library
classification, as an organizational tool for Web resources; and
the current usage of library classification schemes to organize
the Internet (eg. BUBL Link). It further investigates the
suitability of freely faceted classification scheme like Colon
Classification to the ‘dynamic’ nature of the Internet compared
to widely used enumerative schemes like DDC or LCC.