[Koha-devel] Some thoughts about the "Dewey" field
Ambrose Li
a.c.li at ieee.org
Thu Nov 28 18:24:01 CET 2002
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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