oclc.org/research/projects/fast/
To see a sophisticated example of how tags can be effectively combined with formal classification,
let??™s look at OCLC, where you can get a different subject category for the same book:
http://worldcatlibraries.org/search?q=su%3AMi%C5%82osz%2C+Czes%C5%82aw
You can feed an ISBN to LibraryThing, a social book-cataloging site, with this:
http://www.librarything.com/isbn/{isbn}
which will redirect to a URL with a work-id tag (different editions of a book, which can have
different ISBNs, are collected under the same work-id):
http://www.librarything.com/work/{librarything-work-id}
Using our example, the following URL:
http://www.librarything.com/isbn/006019667X
redirects to the following:
http://www.librarything.com/work/161671
where you see tags that users of LibraryThing have applied to the book. At the same time, you
can find LibraryThing lists here:
http://www.librarything.com/work-info/{librarything-work-id}
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For example:
http://www.librarything.com/work-info/161671
The following is how the book has been formally classified (including such metadata as
the Library of Congress Call Number and the Dewey Decimal classification) along with the
LCSH:
http://www.librarything.com/subject.php?subject=Mi%B1osz%2C+Czes%B1aw%09
Translations+into+English
?– Caution There is an error in character encoding in LibraryThing that causes Mil??osz, Czesl??aw to be
incorrectly displayed.
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