File under dull, turgid, tedious & missed opportunity
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You can't expect every book to make worthy subjects fascinating (e.g. Freakonomics), but this collection of lengthy (so, so lengthy) descriptions of mostly medical classifications is as dull as they come.
Even for academia, the emphasis of description, the paucity of analysis and the complete absence of any practical guidance is disappointing.
OK it was written in 1999, but there is nothing about the emerging challenges of information classification on the Internet at a time when Yahoo! etc. were offering browsable taxonomies of web sites.
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A good read for everyone,
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For a classification nerd like me, this is a thoroughly engaging look at how the creation and implementiaton of classification schemes infiltrates and is affected by other social and human factors.
For the lay-reader, Sorting things out is a digestible, although sometimes overly worded introduction to the pernicious nature of categorising and dividing anything and a wake-up call to everyone to give more consideration to the segmentations we create and perpetuate on a daily basis and their wider effects.
Great for IA's - gives a wider view of the importance of labelling and structure and the behaviour of users and agents.
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Excellent! Good reference!
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It does provide the information what I need for classification. Excellent book!
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