Wayne-

Peter pretty much covered it.

When you work in an environment that actually deals with "classified"
content and you use classify as a verb for how documents/records are marked,
processed and handled there can be confusion. In these situations, the
primary goal is to ensure access is limited to those with a specific "need
to know" and that protections are placed on the items according to their
content.

In general, we always used 'categorize' to describe what was done with
records when they were segregated into types or series in both the public
and private sector prior to the concepts of "Classification Schemes" or the
emergence of application based electronic records systems.

I don't think anyone really knows why classification became the preferred
term with ERMS except someone started using it and people picked up on it.
Even in the early days of database design, the term category was much more
commonly used.  

Classification is used in biology, botany, even in library sciences to
categorize items, but even in these examples the definitions use the terms
"grouping" and "categorizing" to define what they're doing. 

Larry
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