I have over 3000 links bookmarked (Not all are Space related)
I have a folder named 'Space' that I want to break into sub-folders but I don't know how to break it down.
I already have a folder called 'NASA Sites' and one called 'ESA Related'.
What I am looking for is a list of the main categories related to space from the internet sites point of view.
like:
Space:Theory
Space:Graphics
Space:Reality????
Space:Cosmology
Space:Telescopes
Space:Star Characteristics?

It's important because of a group I have started at yahoo. the group messages are based on the links cataloged and I need to keep the catalog addresses to a minimum.

Here is a majority of the sites I have listed. How could I reduce these into about 5 categories or fewer and still make sense as a table of contents.
# Advanced Propulsion Concepts
# Affordable Space Flight
# Amazing Space
# An Atlas of The Universe
# APOD February 5, 1996 - COBE Dipole Speeding Through the Universe
# Apollo Image Atlas
# Astronomical Society of the Pacific
# Astronomy and Space Online Dictionary and Glossary - numbers Topics
# Astronomy News, Star Charts, Space Pictures - Astronomy.com
# CarlSagan.com
# Celestia Stars
# Celestial Images Astrophotography
# Clavius Moon Base - debunking the moon hoax
# Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon
# Everything Space Astronomy and Space News, Chat, Forums, Videos
# Exploring Earth Visualizations
# Exploring Space
# Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
# Galaxies in VRML
# Gizmonics, Inc.
# http___cas.sdss.org_dr3_en SDSS SkyServer
# http___www.lpl.arizona.edu_impacteffects_
# Hypothetical Planets
# Images of Saturn and All Available Satellites
# Information _ The OURS Foundation is a non-profit cultural and astronautical organization.
# Introduction
# ISS EarthKAM Images Tutorials Exploring Images Tutorial
# J-Pass
# Laser Star Astrophysics
# Life In The Universe Could Be Everywhere
# Links to cool space sites!
# Lunar Rover Operations Handbook
# Making Deep Space and Nuclear Rockets Safe for Astronauts_ PART II
# Mars Introduction
# Mars Rover Blog
# Mars
# Measuring the Stars
# Notable Nearby Stars
# NOVA _ The Elegant Universe _ PBS
# NOVA Archive Space PBS
# NuclearSpace_ The Pro-Nuclear Space Movement
# Orbital Mechanics - Page 1
# OSF Space Hotlist
# Physics and Astronomy Reference
# Planetary Sciences at the NSSDC
# ProSEDS Main
# Remote Sensing Tutorial Page A-11
# Rocket Propulsion - Page 1
# Romance to Reality - Moon and Mars Mission Plans _ David S. F. Portree _ Faculty _ Mars Institu
# SEDS - Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
# Seven Dimensional (and up) Einsteinian Hyperspherical Universe - Links
# Sky Chart
# Skyful of Stars
# Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Homepage
# SOEST Alpha Index Page
# Solar System Exploration Home Page
# SolarSystem.com_.biz_.tv - The Official Online Solar System
# SPACE A JOURNEY TO OUR FUTURE is a space exhibit by Clear Channel Exhibits that brings space mu
# Space Centre
# Space Engineering and Science Institute
# Space Frontier Foundation Home Page
# Space Future
# Space Projects - Space Information - Space Shop
# Space Vehicles - Vehicle Designs
# SpaceBric Workshop Exploring 3D Geometry!
# SpaceDaily.Com - Space News From Earth And Beyond
# SpaceDaily.Com - Your Portal To Space
# Spectra
# Star sizes in relation
# StarDate Online Solar System Guide Sun
# Stars
# StarsIntro
# Tethers Unlimited, Inc.
# The Astrobiology Web Your Online Guide to the Living Universe
# The Order of Time_ Science - Galactic Time_ What is it_
# This Garden Universe
# Thoughts on Space Elevators
# Universe Today - Current News
# Universe Today - Space Links X-Ray Astronomy
# Universe Today - Space Photos
# University of Hertfordshire, Astronomy
# Vernor Vinge on the Singularity
# Welcome to Cassiopaea.org
# Welcome to NASA
# Welcome to StarrySkies.com
# Wired News 3-D Tour Puts Stars Within Reach
# World Space Centers
# Sub Directory: LearninSpace

* Free Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
* From Stargazers to Starships
* Human Knowledge Foundations and Limits
* INTRODUCTION MORE THAN PANSPERMIA by Brig Klyce
* NOVA Magnetic Storm See a Reversal PBS
* NOVA Online Death Star
* SpaceRef - Astrobiology and Life Science - Panspermia
* spacesounds - home
* The Nine Planets

# Sub Directory: Related to NASA

* About Us - People
* Ancient Observatories _ Educators _ K-5 Lesson Plans
* ARMD
* Government Forms
* GRIN
* HSF - International Space Station
* HSF - STS-114
* Human Space Flight (HSF) - FAQs
* John F. Kennedy Space Center - ELV Archives
* John F. Kennedy Space Center - Shuttle Mission Summaries
* John F. Kennedy Space Center - View Launches and Landings
* John F. Kennedy Space Center Home Page
* JPL Missions
* Mars Exploration_ Home
* Marshall Space Flight Center - Cool Sites
* Marshall Space Flight Center - Space Projects
* MSFC ISO 9000 Home Page
* NASA - Archive
* NASA - Exploration Systems - Home
* NASA - For Educators (K-4) - Multimedia
* NASA - Home LoBandWidth
* NASA - HomeHiSpd
* NASA - Missions - Highlights
* NASA - Missions - Timeline
* NASA - NASA TV Landing Page
* NASA - Popular Topics
* NASA - RSS Feeds
* NASA - Space Research
* NASA - Space Science - Home
* NASA - Welcome
* NASA Aeronautics Blueprint_
* NASA Ames Research Center
* NASA CFO web site--Resource Library
* NASA CORE - Central Operation of Resources for Educators
* NASA Documents Online
* NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
* NASA Dryden_ Research Aircraft Collection
* NASA Earth Observatory
* NASA Glenn Research Center Homepage
* NASA Headquarters
* NASA Heads Up Online Archives
* NASA History Office
* NASA Human Space Flight
* NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas
* NASA KIDS - a nasa site dedicated to kids - Kids of all ages!
* NASA Office of Inspector General--Home Page
* NASA Spacelink - An Aeronautics & Space Resource for Education
* NASA STI Web site
* NASA Technology Portal
* NASA's Langley Research Center
* NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
* NASA's Stennis Space Center
* NODIS
* Office of Space Operations
* Planetary Photojournal
* Procurement Reference Library
* S.O.N. _ Sunspotters _ From Students
* Search
* Simple Search
* Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS)
* Welcome to NASA's Vision
* Welcome to StenniSphere!
* Where is the International Space Station_
* Sub Directory: Related to NASA
o Northwestern University for Bio-Nano-Structures and Materials
o Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board's Homepage
o Aerospace Technology Advisory Committee (ATAC)
o Aerospace Vehicle Systems Technology Office
o AIAA Home Page
o AMSAT - The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation
o ARMD__About Us - FAA
o ARMD__About Us - JPDO
o ARMD__Calendar
o ARMD__Education-Web-Based Learning
o ARMD__Exhibits
o ARMD__Library
o ARRLWeb_ ARISS_ Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
o California Institute of Technology
o CEOSR_Cover
o CET_ Classroom of the Future program
o CMISE-Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration
o Current Projects - Helios Prototype
o Destination Tomorrow
o Earth Science_ Global Change Master Directory Web Site
o Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
o Engineering Design Challenge
o Flight Research Services Competency at NASA Langley
o Imagine Mars_ Getting Started
o INAC-NASA Institute for Nanotechnology and Computing
o Joint Planning & Development Office_ Home Page
o MAEL-Mobile Aerospace Education Laboratory
o NASA - Fellowships and Grants
o NASA - Space Science - Where to Ask Questions
o NASA - Welcome to ASK Magazine
o NASA CONNECT™ Good Stress_ Building Better Muscles and Bones
o NASA Nebraska Space Grant & EPSCoR
o NASA Quest > Main page
o NASA Space Science Education Resource Directory
o NASA STI- Scientific and Technical Information
o NASA Tech Briefs
o NASA TechFinder - Bringing Technology from NASA to the Marketplace
o NASAexplores Index_ Express Lessons and Online Resources
o NASA's Learning Technologies Project
o NIA-National Institute of Aerospace
o NTRS_ NASA Technical Reports Server
o Office of Personnel Management Site Index
o PSA Education Page
o Re-Living the Wright Way -- NASA
o Robin Whirlybird on her Rotorcraft Adventures
o Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS)
o Southeast SATS Lab - What is SATS_
o Space Calendar (JPL)
o Space Foundation
o space news
o spinoff
o Table of Contents--A Technology Partnership for the New Millennium
o The NASA SCIence Files™
o TiiMS-Texas Institute of Intelligent Bio-Nano Materials and Structures for Aerospace Vehicles
o U.S. Centennial of Flight Home Page
o UARC- University Affiliated Research Center
o University Research Engineering Technology Institute
o University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program
o Virtual Skies Main Menu

If you recognise any sites in there that are BadAstronomy I would appreciate it if you would let me know so I can clean out the junk.
Thanx

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Only 5? Ok:

- General
- Technology
- Solar system
- Stars & other stuff in Milky Way
- Extragalactic stuff

I don't know if this will work, as you probably would have quite large "general" category.

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I started out using the Microsoft “favorites” system, but I finally accumulated too many of them, and the system doesn’t alphabetize them properly.

So I finally started an Astronomy folder under the “My Documents” category, then I opened Word documents and pasted hot links inside them. Like for NASA you can have a word document that contains all your NASA links. You just go to that document and click on the hot link to any of the NASA websites. You can categorize all the links inside each word document.

Yup, I have a word doc for NASA and For SciFi I'm looking to catergorize the links so when someone is looking for a particular thing it can be found by drilling down by common nomenclature.
Example
WWW>SCIFI>MOVIES>SERIES>STARTREK>CHARACTERS>KIRK>S HATNER
Where you would look for all links related to William Shatner at the last folder, Links related to the Character Kirk in its parent folder, Characters related to StarTrek movies above that, Anything Startrek aBove that, Any movie series above that, Anything SciFi above that and anything WWW in the top folder. Each folder containing folders that split down accordingly
WWW>SCIFI>TV>SERIES>STARGATE>ATLANTIS>NEWS

Now I am trying to develop one for space that will read

WWW>SPACE>LEARNING>????>????>?????>STAR SIZES
WWW>SPACE>THEORETICAL>?????>?????>?????>DYSON>SPHE RE

well, I hope you under stand.

If you want my NASA.doc or SciFi.doc link files you can download them at my group SciFiExplorers or SciFiResearchers. I have an unlock to check out the groups Username Skwirlfree PW 123456 that will be active until may 1, then that user will be banned. Its so you dont have to start a yahoo account and join just to see what I'm up to.

Ari Jokimaki
I am trying to stay away from the general Categories as they tend to get really big really fast
MilkyWay would be a parent folder of Sol System
ExtraGalactic would be in the Universe folder broken into its components
like Superclusters, gravitational lensing, ????,?????,?????.etc...

Stars in the milky way would need to be in subfolders dealing with star charts, star characteristics and ????.

What I am looking for is the top Main folders That will have SPACE as their parent. WWW>SPACE>????????>????????>??????>...
If there is ten so be it if there is five so be it. I'm thinking one could be WWW>SPACE>COSMOLOGY>
and WWW>SPACE>EXPLORATION>
or WWW>SPACE>EDUCATION>
or WWW>SPACE>SPECULATION>
WWW>SPACE>CURRENT EVENTS>

??? I don't want to have to keep going back and changing parent folders like I do for SciFi.
I figured if Anyone could help me with this it would be someone here. You guys are very knowlegeable about the structure of the aspect of space.

Note: Worlds largest use of ??? in a single post.

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I think it's really hard to come up with a completely general breakdown of something like this - the way you break it down is biased by your interests. For example, I noticed that Ari Jokimaki's breakdown is based *mainly* on categorizing topics by location. Since I'm an engineer, I would be tempted to expand technology/missions into multiple categories and cram Ari's topics 3-5 into one topic.

Another way to organize it might be roughly by science field. But then, that's because my background is in science :-)
For example:

"Engineering" - technology and space missions
"Physics" - theories about the nature of the universe, relativity, etc.
"Astronomy" - categorization & study of celestial objects, past and present
"Biology" - astrobiology
And so on...

I realize that today everything is so interdisciplinary that you can't really describe these fields as black-and-white as they appear above. I'm just using the stereotypes of the fields as a sort of thought experiment.

Also, maybe you can draw some inspiration from the way Google, Yahoo, etc. have done their categorizations:

http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Astronomy/
http://dir.yahoo.com/science/astronomy/

I've worked on my bookmarks folders a little. Still undecided about the link folders in SciFiExplorers tho.

Here is what I have so far for Space and Science in bookmarks.

Master folder is 'EXPLORALL'
That breaks as follows
EXPLORALL
*Animals
*GoingWhere
*Internet SurfPages
*Religion
*When
*News
*Government
*Science
*Space
*Weapons

Then SCIENCE breaks down as:
SCIENCE
*News&Reference
*NanoTechnology
*Physics
*Biology
*Chemistry
*Linguistics
*Earth Sciences
*Oceans
*Syncrotrons
*Theory
*Robotics
*AI
*Interplanetary Internet
*Virtual Reality
*Hoaxes

Then SPACE breaks down like this:

SPACE
*NASA/ESA
*Deep Impact Family Certificates
*Objects
*Theory
*Maps
*Research
*Speculation
*Exploration
*Facts
*Exhibits
*Specials
*News
*Arts & Graphics

NASA/ESA Is pretty firm
Deep Impact is too
Objects will be subfoldered for planets, stars, Spacecraft, satellites, etc
Theory and Speculation will likely be merged
Facts and Education will be merged
News, Specials and Exhibits will go together
Arts and Graphics should be merged with Maps

Then subfolders will be created to clarify the subsections of each folder.

So did I miss anything critical?
I guess I should include a folder for Forums, Societies and Journals
and a folder for Link Indexes and Webrings.

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