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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