The classifications used in this site

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The classifications used in this site

I settled on this structure of my web sites after a couple of trial sites.

The first site used directories (or folders) to separate the individual pages. I soon found the some pages belonged in more than one directory. Directory names also took up space in the hyperlinks.

This sites gets around this problem by placing all the pages in one directory (mostly). The files are labelled alphabetically.

a.htm
aa.htm
etc..

The maximum filename length is eight characters. So aaaaaaaa.htm is followed by aaaaaaab.htm.

I use MSnotepad to create and edit the files. I usually use 5 windows with Notepad and 2 windows with Netscape while editing. This allows me to cut and paste between web pages.

If a group of pages is using a very similar outline I save the layout by calling it a template file (eg. atemp.htm). This has the consequence of classifying the pages into general classes.

These classes are not limited by directory structure. A page can be the member of more than one class. Classifications can refer to each other.

So far, the classes are as follows...

Class a: homepage, general stuff to do with the site.
Template: atemp.htm

Class b: human ecology, concepts and glossary.
Template btemp.htm

Class bb: Encyclopedia structure
Template bbtemp.htm

Class bj: Return (ticket) to Nature. Birdwatching with a bus.
Template

Class bja: My Bird List. With some photos of birds.
Template bjatemp.htm
Class bjb: Places that I've been birdwatching
Template bjbtemp.htm

Class c: MSc project, I might expand this section to include other stuff from my BSc & MSc.
Template ctemp.htm

Class cb: Astrophysics
Template cbtemp.htm
Class cc: Environmental action
Template cctemp.htm

Class d: Ilfracombe
Template dtemp.htm

Class e: originally authors, this class has been generalised to people.
Template etemp.htm

Class f: Books and articles. This class developed because I had problems making a bibliography database. "A book can be a book or an article, a book can contain articles".
Template ftemp.htm

Class g: Notes for PhD proposals, similar stuff to class b, but more conjectures.
Template gtemp.htm

Class gb: Translations between biology and sociology
Template gbtemp.htm
Class gc: Observations on the Sapir - Whorf hypothesis
Template gctemp.htm
Class gd: The Marriage of Object and Subject
Template gdtemp.htm
Class ge: The Philosophers Stone
Template getemp.htm

Class h: What are the meanings of calcium in physiology?, Experimental hypertext description of the roles of calcium in physiology - interelated to ideas from Barthes, Foucault, Ulrich Beck, and Umberto Eco.
Template htemp.htm

Class i: What are the roles of calcium in the genotype - phenotype arguement,
Template itemp.htm

Class j: some sounds of numbers, midi files of number stream.
Template jtemp.htm

Class k: Pseudo phase spaces
Template ktemp.htm

Class kb: Graphs of pseudo phase spaces
Template kbtemp.htm
Class kc: Logistic map
Template kctemp.htm
Class kd: Computing
Template kdtemp.htm

Class l: Origami
Template ltemp.htm

Class lb: Kites
Template lbtemp.htm
Class lc: Chess
Template lctemp.htm

Class m: Mathematics education, my current course.
Template mtemp.htm

Class mb: Psychology of learning mathematics
Template mbtemp.htm
- Class mbb: Project Draft
  Template mbbtemp.htm
Class mc: Concept maps
Template mctemp.htm
Class md: Statistics
Template mdtemp.htm
Class me: Discrete mathematics
Template metemp.htm
Class mf: Research methodology in mathematics education
Template mftemp.htm
Class mg: Mathematics and biology education
Template mgtemp.htm
Class mh: Mathematics for special educational needs: blindness and mathematics
Template mhtemp.htm
- Class mhb: Notes
  Template mhbtemp.htm
- Class mhc: Sonification
  Template mhctemp.htm

Class n: Places
Template ntemp.htm

Class nb: Henges
Template nbtemp.htm
Class nc: Universities
Template nctemp.htm
Class nd: Libraries
Template ndtemp.htm
Class ne: Churches
Template netemp.htm
Class nf: Devon
Template nftemp.htm
- Class nfb: Lundy
  Template nfbtemp.htm

Class tree: Graphs and trees
Template treetemp.htm

Class , template temp.htm

Links at this site...

Classification and the librarian's problem
The librarian's problem - Leibniz - Eco and Barrow -
Encyclopedia structure
A classification of the processes involved in gas nets
Classification by gene function.
The librarian's problem and gene databases in the Human Genome Project.
Trees, graphs, and the librarian's problem
Directories, hierarchies and set theory

Links to other sites...

Created 1/3/00
Last modified 18/10/01