User talk:Dcljr/LC

Moved from Category talk:LC-K

For the most part the division of classes chosen by the LOC does not serve our purposes well. Generally it chooses sub-classes based on countries, it would seem to work better for us if an article can be cross referenced by a country category from D, E or F, and one or more codes from this class K.

A quick evaluation suggests that only KB, for ecclesiastical law, and KZ, for international law, are likely to be retained.

This page proposes how the law category may be sub-divided. When this has been grasped linking these subdivisions to coded categories is only a mechanical exercise.

Subdivisions of law

General group

• Jurisprudence
  • History of law
  • Philosophy of law
  • Historical legal systems
    • Common law
    • Civil law
• Administration of justice
  • Courts
  • Judges
  • Lawyers
• Statutes
• Case law
  • Supreme courts
  • Appelate courts
  • Trial courts
• Constitutional law

Government group

• Administrative law
  • Government administration
• Military law
  • Emergency measures
• Financial administration
  • Taxation law
  • Fiscal policy

Benefits group

• Social legislation
  • Environmental law
  • Labour law
  • Social insurance
  • Welfare
  • Education
  • Science and the arts
• Public health law
  • Medical legislation
  • Food and medical drugs
  • Product safety
  • Alcohol, Tobacco and recreational drugs
  • Veterinary law

Personal group

• Law of persons
  • Family law
  • Succession and inheritance
• Private law
  • Arbitration and mediation
• Obligations
  • Torts
  • Personal contracts

Property group

• Property
  • Ownership
  • Real estate
  • Corporations
  • Intellectual property law
    • Copyright law
    • Patent law
    • Trademark law
• Commercial law
  • Commercial Contracts
  • Insurance law
  • Banking
  • Regulation of industry
  • Carriage of goods
  • Bankruptcy

Criminal group

• Criminal law
  • Compensation of victims

Interjurisdictional group

• International law
• Comparative law
  • Conflict of laws
• Maritime law

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DK5 main categories of law

This is how the DK5 system divides the law top-level category:

• 34. Law, justice and legislation (top-level category)
• 34.1 International law
• 34.2 Constitutional and administrative law
• 34.3 Criminal law and criminology
• 34.4 Military law
• 34.5 Civil/private law
• 34.6 Statutes, acts, regulations, Royal decrees, departmental orders, circulations etc. (collections and standalones)
• 34.7 Administration of justice
• 34.8 Roman law
• 34.9 Canonical, Jewish and Islamic law

These categories are subdivided in the DK5 system, and some subdivision will probably be needed here as well. This is just a suggestion for primary division - more top-level entries can be made, or some entries can be split (the DK5 decimal classification system is limited to 10 entries per sub-level, but the LOC system is not). Christian S 12:56, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Having 26 subdivisions available is certainly an advantage for LOC. The similarities between DK5 and Dewey on this topic are notable; one was clearly influenced by the other. Eclecticology 09:11, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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Looking at these propositions, and the general list of Dewey Decimal categories of law:

• 340 Law
• 341 International law
• 342 Constitutional and administrative law
• 343 Military, tax, trade, industrial law
• 344 Social, labor, welfare and related law
• 345 Criminal law
• 346 Private law
• 347 Civil procedure and courts
• 348 Law (statutes), regulations, cases
• 349 Law of specific jurisdictions and areas

It seems that the most appropriate way to create a category system would be (Freely amend as necessary):

• LC-K (this would include discourses on justice and law in general, and philosophical works)
  • International Law (includes Maritime Law)
    • Statutes (This might cross-link to historical bi/multi-lateral documents. It probably would have multi-lateral statutes, especially UN-related ones as a separate undercategory)
    • Courts (The World Court and the new International Criminal Court founding documents?)
    • Case law (Cases in the above two courts)
  • Constitutional Law
    • Statutes (Cross-link to Constitutional Documents)
    • Courts (Supreme Court Documents around the world. Organized by nation.)
    • Case law (Supreme Court results go here. Organized by nation.)
  • Administrative Law
    • Statutes
    • Courts (?)
    • Case law
  • Criminal Law
    • Statutes (Many many of these. Probably just link to online repositories, except for sample texts like the Super-DMCA sample legislation)
    • Courts (Presumably local, state, and low-level federal courts)
    • Case law
  • Military Law
    • Statutes
    • Courts (?)
    • Case law
  • Tax Law
    • Statutes (Link to IRS Tax Code?)
    • Courts (?)
    • Case law (Scientology cases, among others...)
  • Commercial/Corporate/Industrial Law
    • Statutes
    • Case law
  • Intellectual Property Law
    • Statutes
    • Case law
  • Social Laws
    • Statutes
    • Courts (?)
    • Case law
  • Private/Family Law
    • Statutes
    • Courts (?)
    • Case law
  • Historical Law Systems
    • Roman Law
    • English Law (e.g. Magna Carta)
    • French Law (e.g. Louisiana-type law)
    • Canonical Law (Christian?)
    • Jewish Law
    • Islamic Law

Or something along those lines... -- Pipian 20:49, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

This looks like a good suggestion. "Canonical Law" should perhaps be renamed "Christian Law", as I believe this is what it means (correct me if I'm wrong). As to "Intellectual Property Law" vs. "Copyright Law" I don't know which name is best. Christian S 15:15, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I hesitated to callit Christian Law as I wasn't sure that it was what it's known to be called. I chose Intellectual Property instead of Copyright to allow a greater amount of cases to be understood to be under that category (Trademarks, Patents) -- Pipian

Canonical Law is what is used in Danish, but, as English is only my second language, I'm not sure what the correct english term is - it could be either for all I know. Intellectual Property is fine with me. Christian S 17:30, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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Thanks to both of you for your suggestions. The English is usually "canon law" rather than "canonical law"; it broadly co-incides with "ecclesiastical law". One could also say "church law". This is the one area where I plan to retain the KB that is used by LOC. Eclecticology 09:11, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Moved from Category talk:LC-TB

This category is reserved for material related to software engineering, computer programs and source code. Ideas about how these should be categorized are welcome. Eclecticology 23:14, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Here are some possible categorisations, none seem perfect as there is overlap.

By business field:

• Management
• Banking
• Medical
• Engineering
• Scientific
• Avionics
• Ecommerce

By technology (part-taken from Reliable Software Technologies Lecture Notes):

• Safety and Security - encryption, redundancy, hot-cold backups
• Verification and Validation
• Distributed Systems - multiple machines, networks
• Real-Time Systems - time critical, time-budgetted
• Compilers and Tools
• Interfacing languages - Ada-C Ada-Java for example

-Wikibob 21:47, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Possible categorization for discussion

How's this idea? I'll leave it here for a while for people to make comments, note any major subjects I've missed, and so on. I'm assuming this category is meant for both source code (Wikisource:Source code) and writing about programming and software design. As it stands right now, this proposed categorization has a pronounced bias toward the art of programming, as opposed to management or UI design or tutorials on specific software; see below for a list of topics for which I realize I've left little room.

Notice that I didn't try to cover "medical algorithms" or "avionics algorithms" or "banking algorithms," since as far as I'm concerned those labels are meaningless. Algorithms to fuzzy-match DNA sequences will be found under "fuzzy string searching" in -TBO; path-planning algorithms will be found under -TBL; and compound-interest formulas will be found under -TBG.

In compiling this categorization, I've looked at Wikipedia:List of algorithms and Wikisource:Source code.

LC-TB  Computer Science and Software Engineering
  -TBA  Comparative programming paradigms (OO, declarative, constraint-based)
  -TBB  Comparative programming methodologies (Extreme Programming, team organization, literate programming, verification)
  -TBC  Comparative programming languages (C, Java, Lisp)
  -TBD  Comparative miscellany (HCI, buffer overflow prevention)
     E
  -TBF  Software tools (wc, diff, indent)
  -TBG  General idioms and practice programs (HAKMEM, "Hello world")
  -TBH  Ciphers, cryptosystems, and hashes (TEA, RC4, MD5, CRC32)
  -TBI  Compression algorithms (JPEG, gzip, MP3)
  -TBJ  Graph algorithms (Dijkstra, Ford, A*)
  -TBK  Number theory and discrete numeric algorithms (Euclid, primality testing, calculate pi)
  -TBL  Optimization algorithms (simplex, genetic algorithms, TSP)
  -TBM  General numeric algorithms (Newton-Raphson, matrix multiply, DSP)
  -TBN  Probabilistic algorithms (Markov chains, Bayesian filters)
  -TBO  Searching and sorting (KMP, Quicksort)
  -TBP  Highly parallel computing algorithms
  -TBQ  Quantum computing algorithms
  -TBR  Distributed computing algorithms
     S
  -TBT  Parsing (regular expressions, LALR)
  -TBU  Compiler design and implementation (optimization, register assignment, stack management)
  -TBV  2D computational geometry and image processing (Canny edge detection, Bresenham's algorithm)
  -TBW  3D and higher-dimensional computational geometry (ray tracing, computer vision)
     X
  -TBY  Web programming (HTML, Javascript, CSS)
  -TBZ  TCP/IP and network programming (ping, Web proxy, sendmail)

Deficiencies:

• Security idioms (buffer overflow prevention, file permissions) (could go in -TBD)
• Category -TBF is just thrown in there as a repository for "textutils" and "binutils" that don't implement any specific well-known algorithm (e.g., wc). Is it even worth having this subcat? I, personally, would like to have a repository for the GNU sources (and others) as user-friendly as Wikisource, but I'm not sure the copyright mess would allow many existing tools to be added verbatim; someone would have to reimplement each GNU tool under the GFDL.
• Similarly, -TBG is only there for historical reasons (Case conversion, Hello world, Easter day, Xor swap algorithm).
• Tutorials on specific products and tools can go in -TBB or -TBD, but that's pretty vague.
• Information on the history of computing has to go in -TBD also.
• User interface design (could go in -TBD).
• Testing and formal verification (could go in -TBB).
• Database programming (the construction of interesting SQL queries, for example).
• Operating-system programming (file systems, thread libraries).
• Memory management algorithms (implementing malloc and free).
• Garbage collection algorithms.

See also Wikisource talk:Source code. Perhaps Wikibooks would be a more appropriate source code repository; in addition, it might encourage people to write more explanation about the source code and how it works. One obvious disadvantage: Newcomers to Wikimedia will almost certainly try to find source code on Wikisource. --Quuxplusone 17:18, 26 July 2005 (UTC)