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Classification

(Resources: Secondary Sources - Bibliographies, Reviews, Glossaries)

(Systems Design) ISI Glossary of Systems Design Terms

(ISINet) ISINet's Glossary of Terms (for citation databases, etc.)

(Library Classification) Dewey Decimal Classficition (DDC) Bibliography

(Industrial Classification) North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) - replaces the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system to provide new comparability in statistics about business activity in North America

(Physics and Astronomy Classification) PACS - prepared by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) in collaboration with certain other members of the International Council on Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI). PACS is designed to classify and categorize the literature of physics and astronomy

Genomics Glossaries: Evolving Terminology for Emerging Technologies by Mary Chitty, Cambridge Healthtech Institute

(Medicine - Diseases) Electronic International Classification of Diseases

S.R. Ranganathan

Prologemena to Classification - Excerpts of Definitions (especially Canons are all here)

Garfield, E. (1984) A Tribute to S.R. Ranganathan: Father of Indian Library Science, Part I: His life and works. Part 2: Contribution to Indian and International Library Science. PDF files. Also see DLIST

Glassel, A. Was Rangathan a Yahoo!?

Maple, A. Faceted Access: A Review of the Literature.

Ranganathan's Colon Classification: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography (provides good description of facet analysis)

Google Classification!

Review of Bowker and Starr's Sorting Things Out: Classification and It's Consequences


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