BASCS ("basis") the Canadian federal government system is conceptually 
thorough and I was lucky enough to have personal guidance from the people 
who developed it as I implemented most of it (that is, the administrative 
categories that existed in early 2005) for a provincial government agency. 
Thanks.

So it's one thing to have a definition, I discovered, another thing to 
implement a scheme true to its intended usage. When you really inspect some 
schemas - like DIRKS - the definition may seem workable on paper but then 
little aspects that don't work for your organization can trip you up and 
make the whole proposition unworkable.  Functions-based classification is 
difficult to get right from beginning to end.




Maureen Cusack, M.I.St.

http://www.maureencusack.net

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