On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 22:48, Kyle Banerjee <kyle.banerjee_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> What causes the uniqueness isn't the specificity. It's the virtually
> endless permutations for assigning subdivisions. For example, let's
> suppose you have a book on salmon genetics that just happened to focus
> on fish that were in Oregon. The rule say that salmon can be
> subdivided geographically, but genetics can't. So the cataloger
> wanting to make everything specific creates
>
> Salmon -- Oregon -- Genetics
I like it; LCSH reduced to tagging with a light sprinkle of hierarchies. :)
Regards,
Alex
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