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Ranganathan’s principles and a fully “freely faceted” classification

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Title Ranganathan’s principles and a fully “freely faceted” classification
 
Creator Gnoli, Claudio
 
Subject phenomenon-based classification
faceted classification
freely faceted classification
phase relationships
Integrative Levels Classification
Colon Classification
 
Description 113-120
Among Ranganathan’s outstanding contributions to library and information science are the principles of faceted
classification. He implemented them in his Colon Classification (CC), an advanced system bringing many innovations
though still based on disciplines. The Integrative Levels Classification (ILC) breaks the barriers between disciplines and
follows the alternative approach, phenomenon-based classification, which Ranganathan considered to be unsuitable. To
express the facets of phenomena, ILC adopts a set of ten fundamental categories – quality, quantity, part, property,
transformation, opposition, agent, place, time, perspective – that have some correspondences with Ranganathan’s PMEST.
It is a “freely faceted classification” in the sense that any phenomenon class can be used as an isolate and combined with any
other by means of free facets: these are not available in CC, although similar functionalities are provided by phase
relationships and by subject device. ILC notation also adopts some solutions inspired by Ranganathan, such as emptying
digit (z) and favoured host class (T). Expressive notation as in CC and ILC is especially useful, although underused,
to control browsing and searching in our era of computer-based information.
 
Date 2024-03-11T04:38:24Z
2024-03-11T04:38:24Z
2024-03
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-2404 (Online); 0972-5423 (Print)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/63552
https://doi.org/10.56042/alis.v71i1.8996
 
Language en
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR, India
 
Source ALIS Vol.71(1) [March 2024]