Re: [ba-unrev-talk] Re: International Purple Numbering Standard?
On Friday 04 October 2002 09:59, Matthew Schneider wrote: (01)
> So, belaboring this analogy a bit longer, in my day I might have read the
> report (on paper) and gone to my library to check the source:
> myhometown/mylibrary/bookshelf6/book34/page23/paragraph3 and you similarly
> (in another state)
> yourhometown/yourlibrary/bookshelf8/book4/page233/paragraph13 (note that I
> was reading from a stand alone version of "Romeo and Juliet" while you were
> reading from Shakespeare's complete works). (02)
(laughing) Of course in my analogy we both use the dewey decimal
classification system to retrieve the book. :/ (03)
Here's an example where two different Purple systems lead to the same source
paragraph:
http://mas.homelinux.net/~matsch/potf.php?theurl=http://www.eekim.com/software/purple/purple.html#purp97
and: http://www.eekim.com/software/purple/purple.html#hid2 (04)
Ok maybe we DO need some standardization. (05)
M. (06)