27 Mar 09 Brief Overview of the History of Classification

Someone (sorry forgot who you were) recently pointed me to this 2006 presentation by Roger Hudson of Web Usability on Information Classification and Retrieval. Its a nice recap of classification from Carl Linnaeus’ (Father of Taxonomy) classification of living things in “Systema Naturae”, published in 1758 to modern day folksonomies and tags.

Tags: dewey decimal system, faceted classification, folksonomy, tags