Re: Tired of Hierarchies

2008-05-04 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason C. Wells wrote: | Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: | |> ~5. If the system didn't plan for some major catagory it will be crunched into a sub catagory(s) that do not make very much sense for example under Library of Congress computer science is und

Re: Tired of Hierarchies

2008-05-04 Thread Jason C. Wells
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: ~5. If the system didn't plan for some major catagory it will be crunched into a sub catagory(s) that do not make very much sense for example under Library of Congress computer science is under math (QA76.) but electronics is under TK510[456]. In this exa

Re: Tired of Hierarchies

2008-05-04 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: | On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 03:02:15PM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: |> When will we be able to access our computerized data on the |> desktop with out complete dependence on the hierarchy? Has |> anyone in the FOSS community ta

Re: Tired of Hierarchies

2008-05-04 Thread Thierry Thomas
Le Dim 4 mai 08 à 15:49:26 +0200, Rahul Siddharthan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivait : > On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Roopinder Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, May 4, 2008 11:24 am, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > If you want to index your files (metadata, or informative filenames, o

Re: Tired of Hierarchies

2008-05-04 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Roopinder Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 4, 2008 11:24 am, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > If you want to index your files (metadata, or informative filenames, or > > whatever) and dump them all in one directory, go ahead. Thinking about > > a suita

Re: Tired of Hierarchies

2008-05-04 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 03:02:15PM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > When will we be able to access our computerized data on the > desktop with out complete dependence on the hierarchy? Has > anyone in the FOSS community tackled this problem? What > software is used? You know the language is hierar

Re: Tired of Hierarchies

2008-05-04 Thread Roopinder Singh
On Sun, May 4, 2008 11:24 am, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > If you want to index your files (metadata, or informative filenames, or > whatever) and dump them all in one directory, go ahead. Thinking about > a suitable indexing system is an exercise for the reader. (A non-trivial > exercise. Librar

Re: Tired of Hierarchies

2008-05-04 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Jason C. Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When will we be able to access our computerized data on the desktop with out > complete dependence on the hierarchy? Has anyone in the FOSS community > tackled this problem? What software is used? > > I am tired of hiera