The Selection and Order of Main Classes in General Classification Schemes : Considerations on the Philosophical and Socio-Historical Backgrounds

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  • 一般分類法における主類の選定と順序 : その哲学的および社会歴史的背景の考察
  • イッパン ブンルイホウ ニ オケル シュルイ ノ センテイ ト ジュンジョ ソノ テツガクテキ オヨビ シャカイ レキシテキ ハイケイ ノ コウサツ

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The philosophical and socio-historical backgrounds concerning the selection and order of main classes in general classification schemes are discussed. 28 schemes that have been published in book form since Harris's scheme of 1870 are selected. All of the schemes base their main classes on disciplines that are encountered in the real world, but they differ in number and order due to the world-view on the one hand and the notational constraint on the other. Moreover, a home-made scheme devised for its own library is obliged to reflect its collection, and a unified or common scheme for nation-wide use should take account of its socio-historical background. Only a universal scheme keeps its philosophical principles. The author thinks that the schemes of Brown's SC (1906), Ranganathan's CC(1933), Bliss's BC(1940), BCA/CRG's BC2(1977) and Unesco/FID's BSO(1978), the bodies of which all together begin with natural sciences, create a new history of universal classification that is based on evolutionary ideas. They also form a de-Dewey history of general classification that was completed 100 vears after DDC of 1876.

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