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| - | CLASSIFICATION BY SUBJECT
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| - | Several members of this list have supported (in their postings to this
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| - | list, or in private mails to me) the "21 actionable themes" as a
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| - | (www.wsflibrary.org). Some of you have also proposed amendments to the 21
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| - | themes, which we need to return to, and to discuss one by one in separate
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| - | Once we have reaches sufficient consensus about the details of the
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| - | classification by subject, I think we should proceed to classifying the
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| - | materials, and to having the 21 themes as a navigation panel on top
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| - | of the front page of the site. Do you agree?
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| - | I would like to add a couple of points about this particular
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| - | classification by subject. As librarians, you may want to give these
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| - | points a thought, and to express your own thoughts, please:
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| - | 1. The list with the 21 "actionable themes" of the WSF shows a rough
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| - | resemblance with the list of Ministries of a modern state. It is not a
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| - | classification of knowledge. Rather, it is the taxonomy of things that a
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| - | contemporary Government should be concerned with. Note that no Government
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| - | can ever be perfect. Neither can this kind of classification by subject be
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| - | 2. I am prepared to accept any order of the 21 actionable themes. Thus
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| - | it would be OK with me if Water came last, and Children first. Or, Labour
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| - | could be number 2. and Education number 1. A mathematically educated
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| - | friend pointed out to me, that 20 themes can be ordered in great many
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| - | ways. There are, to be exact:
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| - | 20! = 2 432 902 008 176 640 000 different possibilities...
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| - | That is far more than all people on earth. Another order is always
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| - | possible!
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| - | 3. The two main advantages of the 21 actionable themes: a) This
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| - | classification -- or at least the version that we are working on -- is
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| - | sanctioned by the International Council of the World Social Forum; b) the
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| - | list is short enough to permit a rapid overview of the whole, yet it is
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| - | fairly comprehensive.
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| - | CLASSIFICATION BY OTHER CRITERIA
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| - | We will also need, of course, to introduce classification by other
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| - | criteria than the subject: type, and format, for instance. The fact
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| - | that we are dealing with events, events within events, and with *ongoing
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| - | activities* necessitates the use of criteria, which may not belong to the
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| - | traditional ones in libraries (?). - There are indeed many open questions
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| - | left to discuss.
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| - | Pomoja tunawesa,
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