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Prolegomena to Library Classification

About: The article was published on 1967-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 431 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Library of Congress Classification & Dewey Decimal Classification.

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29 May 2011
TL;DR: The implementation of a geographical catalogue and corresponding semantic extension for the spatial data infrastructure of the Autonomous Province of Trento in Italy and the experience in the integration of the faceted ontology with the multi-lingual geo-spatial ontology GeoWordNet are reported.
Abstract: Geo-spatial applications need to provide powerful search capabilities to support users in their daily activities However, discovery services are often limited by only syntactically matching user terminology to metadata describing geographical resources We report our work on the implementation of a geographical catalogue, and corresponding semantic extension, for the spatial data infrastructure (SDI) of the Autonomous Province of Trento (PAT) in Italy We focus in particular to the semantic extension which is based on the adoption of the S-Match semantic matching tool and on the use of a faceted ontology codifying geographical domain specific knowledge We finally report our experience in the integration of the faceted ontology with the multi-lingual geo-spatial ontology GeoWordNet

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  • ...Our goal was to create an ontology that both reflected the specificity of the PAT and respected the canons of the analytico-synthetic approach [5] for the generation of a faceted ontology....

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TL;DR: An introduction to the new topic map standard (ISO/IEC 13250) is provided with particular reference to the domain of encyclopaedia publishing, and the relationship between topic maps and the W3C recommendation Resource Description Framework (RDF) is discussed.
Abstract: This article provides an introduction to the new topic map standard (ISO/IEC 13250) with particular reference to the domain of encyclopaedia publishing, and discusses the relationship between topic maps and the W3C recommendation Resource Description Framework (RDF). It is based on the author’s participation in the development of the topic map standard (representing Norway in SC34, the ISO committee responsible for SGML and related standards), and two years’ collaboration with leading reference works publishers in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Poland and Germany.

17 citations

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TL;DR: This work lays out the terms and the intellectual constructs that serve as the foundation for investigative work into experientialist classification theory, a theoretical framework of embodied, infrastructural, and reified knowledge organization.
Abstract: What theoretical framework can help in building, maintaining and evaluating networked knowledge organization resources? Specifically, what theoretical framework makes sense of the semantic prowess of ontologies and peer-to-peer sys- tems, and by extension aids in their building, maintenance, and evaluation? I posit that a theoretical work that weds both for- mal and associative (structural and interpretive) aspects of knowledge organization systems provides that framework. Here I lay out the terms and the intellectual constructs that serve as the foundation for investigative work into experientialist classifi- cation theory, a theoretical framework of embodied, infrastructural, and reified knowledge organization. I build on the inter- pretive work of scholars in information studies, cognitive semantics, sociology, and science studies. With the terms and the framework in place, I then outline classification theory 鈂s critiques of classificato ry structures. In order to address these cri- tiques with an experientialist approach an experientialist semantics is offered as a design commitment for an example: metadata in peer-to-peer network knowledge organization structures.

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  • ...Faceted classification structures advocated by S. R. Ranganathan (1967, 1987) are one of the canonical answers to hospitality....

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  • ...Decadal classification schemes like the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) have been criticized from their inception to the present (Ranganathan, 1967; Olson, 2002)....

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TL;DR: The Integrative Level Theory of Information Coding Classification (ILTC) as mentioned in this paper is an evolutionary approach of ontical areas, integrating also on each level the aspects contained in the sequence of the levels, the distinction between categories of form and categories of being, and the application of a feature of Systems Theory (namely the element position plan).
Abstract: Introduction into the structure, contents and specifications (especially the Systematifier) of the Information Coding Classification, developed in the seventies and used in many ways by the author and a few others following its publication in 1982. Its theoretical basis is explained consisting in (1) the Integrative Level Theory, following an evolutionary approach of ontical areas, and integrating also on each level the aspects contained in the sequence of the levels, (2) the distinction between categories of form and categories of being, (3) the application of a feature of Systems Theory (namely the element position plan) and (4) the inclusion of a concept theory, distinguishing four kinds of relationships, originated by the kinds of characteristics (which are the elements of concepts to be derived from the statements on the properties of referents of concepts). Its special Subject Groups on each of its nine levels are outlined and the combinatory facilities at certain positions of the Systematifier are shown. Further elaboration and use have been suggested, be it only as a switching language between the six existing universal classification systems at present in use internationally.

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TL;DR: The study discovers seven principles contributing to the epistemic foundation of the catalogue's classification: the Han imperial library collection imposed as the literary warrant; government functions considered for structuring texts; classicist morality determining the main classificatory structure.
Abstract: Purpose – This study aims to understand the epistemic foundation of the classification applied in the first Chinese library catalogue, the Seven Epitomes (Qilue).Design/methodology/approach – Originating from a theoretical stance that situates knowledge organization in its social context, the study applies a multifaceted framework pertaining to five categories of textual data: the Seven Epitomes; biographical information about the classificationist Liu Xin; and the relevant intellectual, political, and technological history.Findings – The study discovers seven principles contributing to the epistemic foundation of the catalogue's classification: the Han imperial library collection imposed as the literary warrant; government functions considered for structuring texts; classicist morality determining the main classificatory structure; knowledge perceived and organized as a unity; objects, rather than subjects, of concern affecting categories at the main class level; correlative thinking connecting all text ...

17 citations