The Universal Decimal Classification: Some factors concerning its origins, development, and influence
✍ Scribed by McIlwaine, I. C.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 85 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-8231
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✦ Synopsis
The bibliographic enterprise envisaged by Otlet and La-in print, 2 a Re ´pertoire Universel Bibliographique. In or-Fontaine, which resulted in the Universal Decimal Classider to provide a systematic arrangement for this Re ´perfication (UDC) being developed in 1895, and the subsetoire, they negotiated the agreement of Melvil Dewey, the quent history of the scheme is outlined. Relationship fifth edition of whose Decimal Classification had recently with Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) from which it been published 3 and used his scheme as the basis of their was derived deteriorated in the early 20th century and changes in funding, location, and editorship of Duyvis mammoth bibliographical task. They were permitted both from 1929-1959 had a profound effect on the scheme's to expand the main tables and to add certain auxiliaries development and management. Lloyd, Duyvis's succesand connecting devices, in order to handle the great detail sor, reformed the revision structure, and further manof their listing and to introduce some flexibility into the agement changes from 1975 to the present day, culmirather rigid structure of the original. nated in the formation of the UDC Consortium in 1992. The subsequent creation of a machine-readable Master At the outset, the intention was a bibliographic source Reference File and speedier revision procedures are for lawyers, and the social sciences were tackled first, noted. The scheme's structure, development, and influbut very soon the project was expanded in an attempt to ence on classification theory are examined, problems embrace the whole of knowledge in their listing. More caused by longevity and lack of standard procedures, than 16 million records were created before the First