The Dublin Core is an example of in the effort being made to organize the Internet. It is basically a combination of different web sites bibliographies. Librarians have been a part of the group of people working on a metadata standard called the Dublin Core. OCLC, a major library-oriented bibliographic network, established CORC (Cooperative Online Resource Center) in the late 1990s in order to provide a way for libraries to catalog online resources cooperatively and to have ready access to a database of metadata describing important Web resources (Taylor, 2004, p. 14). OCLC has incorporated CORC into its Web interface, Connexion, which also allows the development of pathfinders for certain subjects.
Computer programmers have helped with the organization of the internet, by developing software that automatically classifies and indexes electronic documents. However, the problem the popular software has is the same thing most computers have: they cannot replace the skill of humans. But, OCLC’s research project is current improving an approach to automatic classification using the Dewey Decimal Classification.
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It is interesting that the methods in which one can classify information can be vastly different. I agree that automated tools categorize information differently than people do. An example of human categorization is the way in which images are categorized in Flickr.
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