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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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01 Jun 1996
TL;DR: The operación de clasificar de un documento se define como una metodologia heuristica, que esta siendo mejorada por la aplicacion del metodo cientifico.
Abstract: La operacion de clasificar es examinada en el contexto de la cadena documental. La clasificacion se define como una metodologia heuristica, que esta siendo mejorada por la aplicacion del metodo cientifico. Se considera una operacion de indizacion, mediante la cual cada documento se situa en una ordenacion sistematica, en la cual recibe un lugar predecible, y, por ello, puede ser recuperado eficazmente. La operacion de clasificar aparece determinada por cuatro factores: a) la estructura del mundo de los documentos, una funcion a su vez de la estructura del mundo del conocimiento; b) los sistemas de clasificacion que nos permiten codificar esas estructuras; c) el modo en que la gente construye y usa las clasificaciones; y d) las caracteristicas de la unidad de informacion. (Autor)

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01 Dec 2009
TL;DR: In this article, the synthetic feature of Class 1 should be improved based on a method of facet analysis, and if possible, revision should not affect existing classes in major ways, and should exploit currently empty classes, such as 18 and 19, in order to avoid ambiguous interpretations by users.
Abstract: • Class 1 has not been updated for several decades and needs to be checked against and aligned with current philosophical terminology; • Class 159.9 Psychology, being part of class 1 for historical reasons, should now be separated from it, and should be moved closer the Social Sciences (possibly in currently vacant Class 4); • the synthetic feature of Class 1 should be improved based on a method of facet analysis, thus following the general development principle of UDC; • if possible, revision should not affect existing classes in major ways, and should exploit currently empty classes, such as 18 and 19, in order to avoid ambiguous interpretations by users.

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01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: The use of facet analysis as an analytical tool for identifying salient access features of moving images was tested in an exploratory project as discussed by the authors, where participants viewed three films and created keywords and summaries for each film.
Abstract: The use of facet analysis as an analytical tool for identifying salient access features of moving images was tested in this exploratory project. Twelve participants viewed three films, and created keywords and summaries for each film. These textual descriptions and access features from four moving image repositories were subject to facet analysis. A comparison of the facets elicited by this approach indicates that subject-related content; especially theme, genre and action may be highly salient access points for searchers in moving image repositories. Overview This exploratory project tested the use of facet and filmic analysis (CRG, 1957; La Barre, 2006, 2010; Ranganathan, 1933, 1937; Spiteri, 1998) as strategies for enhancing access and discovery of moving image resources. Developed jointly at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Universidade Federal Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the study assessed similarities and divergences in the content of written participant responses (n=12) to a set of three films across two different cultures (American and Brazilian). Participants were asked to identify salient film characteristics in the form of keywords and film summaries each person created after watching each film. The researchers conducted facet and filmic analysis of these written narratives as a way to uncover insights to support the creation of enhanced strategies for moving image representations. These insights could provide support for the creation of more robust access and discovery interfaces for films. One enhancement suggested by the findings provides support for the importance of indexing strategies for moving images that focus on subject-related attributes such as theme, action and genre. Films and Facets Project Today, the greatest challenge to the future of facet analysis is to determine the extent and manner in which this technique might be adopted and adapted for use in rapidly developing digital environments (La Barre, 2010, p. 268). The approach taken in this study integrates traditional facet analytic models as delineated by Vickery (1966, p. 43-44), and revisited by La Barre (2010) and replicates the facet analytical model developed in the project Folktales and Facets (La Barre & Tilley, 2010; La Barre & Tilley, 2012). Films and Facets used the technique of facet analysis in conjunction with applicable principles of film study (Cordiero, 2000) to help identify important item features such as item format or theme, and the role of user characteristics such as language, experience, and understanding in textual descriptions created by study participants. The main objective of this study was to analyze written viewer responses to three films in order to extract salient aspects that might help improve retrieval and access to films in a variety of information environments (digital repositories, libraries and archives). This research sought to verify the utility of facet analysis and filmic analysis in the interpretation of the textual descriptions 1 The full results of this study will be presented in a forthcoming (2012) book chapter: That Obscure Object of Desire: Facets for Film Access and Discovery. In Diane Rasmussen Neal. (Ed.) Indexing and Retrieval of NonText Information. Berlin: De Gruyter Saur. The main focus of this report is upon the facet analytical aspect of this Films and Facets.

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  • ...This exploratory project tested the use of facet and filmic analysis (CRG, 1957; La Barre, 2006, 2010; Ranganathan, 1933, 1937; Spiteri, 1998) as strategies for enhancing access and discovery of moving image resources....

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TL;DR: The application of Principles for Helpful Sequence is summarily presented and in the process the paper highlights the inherent elements of knowledge organization in each one of these principles in a manner that might map the future course of research in this areawith the potential to bring about a relation between principles for helpful sequence and KOS.
Abstract: Dr. Ranganathan’s “Principles for Helpful Sequence” among the set of normative principles play an exclusive rolein the arrangement of subject isolates. Each subject in the universe of subjects is regulated by a guiding principleof its own which analogously determines the sequence of Arrays in ordering the subject surrogates or isolates.For example, the “Principle of Later-in-Evolution” is applied for sequencing isolates of Animal and Plant Species;this concept can be applied to one of the tools of KOS viz. Taxonomies . The application of Principles for HelpfulSequence is summarily presented and in the process the paper highlights the inherent elements of knowledgeorganization in each one of these principles in a manner that might map the future course of research in this areawith the potentiality to bring about a relation between principles for helpful sequence and KOS. Keywords : Library Classification, Principles for Helpful Sequence, Knowledge Organization Systems ⓒA.Y. Asundi, 2013

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  • ...The 12 main Principles for Helpful Sequence with their manifestations as described by Ranganathan (1967) and Parkhi (1972) are given in Table 2....

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  • ...The definition of Normative Principle as given in Prolegomena is as follows: Normative Principles can be postulated for work in different levels from the level of the basic process of thinking, through the level of library science (or for any other discipline) as a discipline, to the level of each of its various subdisciplines — such as classification and cataloguing and even still to the deeper levels (Ranganathan, 1967)....

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  • ...The entire work of both developing a dynamic theory for library classification, and a set of normative principles was enunciated and evolved by Ranganathan (1967)....

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  • ...…different levels from the level of the basic process of thinking, through the level of library science (or for any other discipline) as a discipline, to the level of each of its various subdisciplines — such as classification and cataloguing and even still to the deeper levels (Ranganathan, 1967)....

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TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual study of knowledge organization is made, showing up its evolution from plain metaphysical (speculative) conceptions to other pure physical of informatic-pragmatic theories.
Abstract: A conceptual study of knowledge organization is made, showing up its evolution from plain metaphysical (speculative) conceptions to other pure physical of informatic-pragmatic theories. Information, knowledge and information technologies are pointed out as factors that change the paradigm of knowledge organization from the perspective of documentation science as subject for university curricula

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