I have a feeling that the study of systems composed of feedback loops (all of creation, I dare say!) will be of interest to you.
I understand it is called "cybernetics".
Please find attached an amusing 1949 Letter from the US Library of Congress to Norbert Weiner, asking him in which section his book "Cybernetics" is supposed to be.
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Today in library news, I learned my local library uses the Dewey Decimal System not the Library of Congress system. Oh dear, I've forgotten the Dewey Numbers for the things I usually need.
So in the process of shitposting a Dewey Decimal System joke yesterday, I was slightly astounded to see that there are a zillion ways to look up a DD call number based on a book's title or ISBN, but shockingly few tools for just traversing the hierarchy to find what DDN might apply to a category I have in mind. The best I could find was a PDF summarizing them.
Now granted, this was all in the support of a shitpost that at best would merit a chuckle from a person or three (mission accomplished I'm happy to say) but I'm dorky enough that I might want to make another such joke in the future.
So now I have a (partial) SQLite database with tables for the Classes, Divisions, and Sections and I'm starting to knock out a silly little Python tool to let me traverse the DD "namespace" so that I can more easily follow the path from "Beer" to "600: Technology" to "610/640: Medicine and Health/Home and Family" to "615: Pharmacology" and "641: Food and drinks" for the next time I want to knock out a goof that no one will get.
What is wrong with me? Also, is this DB or tool the sort of thing anyone but me might be interested in?
I don't think that #JohnnyDecimal (or similar like #DeweyDecimal) are a good idea for digital assets. https://karl-voit.at/2020/01/25/avoid-complex-folder-hierarchies/
Just found out that somebody has organised BBC #InOurTime in #DeweyDecimal.
While we're about it is there room for a literary spin-off 'In Our Tome'? Or microbiology 'In Our Slime'?
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'Unreservedly recommended' - Midwest Book Review
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Heading to a couple of libraries to drop off their #geocaching journals, to be put in the correct location according to #deweydecimal. May look for a cache or two in these areas while we are there. #MidMissouri #DBRL
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Thank you for this wonderful bit of nostalgia. I frequently rode my bike to the library to search the seemingly limitless card catalogue for books on astronomy, chemistry, magic tricks, and novels for kids. The best part: No ads or fake keyword scams! #DeweyDecimal
All along, I thought I was using the #DeweyDecimal System (but with a twist) to organize and categorize my files. And then I came across #JohnnyDecimal https://johnnydecimal.com/ while reading a blog post about #Obsidian and #Drafts from https://www.thoughtasylum.com/2022/12/29/new-obsidian-notes-from-drafts/
It still adapts Dewey Decimal System, since they have a somewhat similar method of indexing system. But mine is kind of similar to the JD System.
And they have a forum where I can lurk around and look for ideas.
The internet is amazing.
If I see #ElonMusk referred to by historically-impared #Journalists as the richest man in history again I am going to force them to eat a number of #DeweyDecimal shelves.
He's not even the #richest person in the last 100 years!
#Research! Learn some #history? You could start comparing him to #Stalin, or even the still-living (ish) #Putin, or run articles on how Elon's wealth compares to Mansa Musa's.
Mind you, it doesn't even help when they pretend to do history:
Happy #deweydecimalsystemday!
Leticia Maloles, a Colombo Plan trainee from the Philippines, helps an elderly woman with the card catalogue at the Beaches Library in Toronto in this photo from 1960.
📸Toronto Star LOCHIST-BE-083
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It’s #DeweyDecimal day, perfect time to revisit this segment of @onthemedia https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/re-sorting-shelves-look-bias-dewey-decimal-system
So, I decided to organize our non-fiction books at long last. I thought I'd be clever and do it by control number.
Why do neither #DeweyDecimal or #LCCN have a category for Biographies?
We've got a bunch of biographies and using either of those they are nowhere near each other!
I’m not #verified yet, but I’m working on linking my website. I really run a crematorium. I’m also a funeral celebrant. I have done over 60 funerals.
I’m also an amateur Histodon who writes books about atheism in the USA a hundred years ago. I have my own Dewey Decimal number! It’s 211.4 LAW.
Really. For reals. Guess this became another #introduction. Hello, Mastodonians!
#crematorium #funeral #celebrant #histodon #atheism #USA #DeweyDecimal
