Prolegomena to Library Classification
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...By applying division into subclasses several times, a chain of classes can be generated (the term “chain” is adopted after Ranganathan, 1967, section CF)....
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...We have had important progresses in classification theory, as facets Ranganathan [15, 16], concept theory [9, 8] and terminology theory [22;4], and, more recently, principles of ontology construction have been improving the knowledge organization area in the information technology context [5; 3]....
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...UK, its domains, its facets should be designed following the Analytico-synthetic approach, a well established methodology from the Library Science which has been successfully used for several decades for the classification of books [8]....
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...The Classification Research Group (1960s), in its Bibliographical Classification System [27], further refined the Ranganathan‘s fundamental categories into thirteen categories: Thing/entity, Kind, Part, Property, Material, Process, Operation, Patient, Product, By-product, Agent, Space, and Time....
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...Each element of a subject provides an independent aspect of possible interest to an enquirer and these separately listed aspects are known as ̳ ̳facets‘‘ [8, 11]....
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...Ranganathan (1933), in his colon classification defined five fundamental categories in which to arrange facets: Personality [P], Matter [M], Energy [E], Space [S] and Time [T], plus an additional category to characterize the domain, called Basic Subject [BS]....
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...DERA uses the Analytico-synthetic approach and as such, it is a direct evolution of Ranganathan‘s Colon Classification [22] which is where we focus our comparison in the following of this section....
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