On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:37:56AM +0530, Saiful Amin wrote:
Strictly in librarians terminology, the job of a classifier is to assign the class number to a document using any classification scheme such as DDC, LC, and UDC. The assignment of subject headings (or 'keywords' for IT people) is the job of the cataloguer. Since the cataloguing of a book is done after the book has been classified the subject headings/keywords can be derived from the class number using any method such as "Chain Procedure." The chain procedure of Ranganathan was successfully used in the British National Bibliography (until mid-seventies) to create the subject index.
Hmm. I don't think I was taught that classification is done before subject headings. But then that was a long time ago (only one year ago, but I have not been involving in the library very much). Well, there's always something new to learn. ^_^
So, I really don't know what you mean by "real" classification :-(
Ah, the problem is a non-librarian pretending to know enough...
Saiful
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