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Saha & Hatua: Generalities Class (000)…
Introduction
Based on Reason, Imagination & Memory DDC has ten
main classes in the first summary according to disciplines
such as Sciences, Arts & Literature and History. A
discipline provides a context for a subject. Masarat (2016)
described that these Classes are also used for certain
specialized disciplines that deal with. It has been notified
that ‘000’ Class is defined by ‘Generalities’ (17ed - 21ed)
Class which has accumulated with general topic e.g.
encyclopaedia’s, newspaper, general periodicals.
‘Generalities’ Class is also used for specialized disciplines
that deals with knowledge and information, e.g., computer
science, library and information science, journalism (Now
identifies as ‘Computer science, information & general
works’). Each of the other main classes (100- 900)
comprises a major discipline or group of related
disciplines. Ranganathan (1963) declared ‘subject’ as an
assumed ‘term’. According to Custer (1975), Dewey used
concept ‘Instead’ of ‘facet’ which is found from 16 th
edition. Knowledge represents to a subject has different
structure depending upon the society. Subject has different
meaning in various context like content, theme, and topic.
Satija & Martínez-Ávila (2017) explained that
Classification provides knowledge structure in the Main
Class that are arranged by ideological principal, social
principal, and scientific principal and divided by
discipline.
Literature Review
This literatures review tries to describe the updation of
various issues of the Dewey Decimal Classification for its
General works to specific areas. Samdani (1989) discussed
classification scheme, its facets and changes made to
various subjects divisions, such as television, data,
processing, popular music, substance abuse, civil rights
and electronics in the 20 th edition. Khun (1999) suggested
the need of few modifications which can be used optimally
to classify a newspaper collection. Comaromi & Satija
(1988) explore the revision of the Dewey Decimal
Classification which is based on the growth &
development or relocating of knowledge or relocating of
knowledge that is revealed in a decade of publishing.
Knudsen (1999) explained that the hierarchy is
disproportional since some division or section which is
totally defined knowledge areas are some thoroughly
covered than others. The system reflects an American
world view and some numbers are too long. He also
suggests that they key points are always arranged by
subject, never by region. Taylor (2006) described that
DDC system logical approach to a hierarchical category of
recorded knowledge that makes sense to many people.
Satija (2007) examines the history, management and
technical aspects of the Dewey Decimal Classification
system (DDC) thoroughly in his book. Pal &
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Bhattacharya (2017) made an exhaustive literature review
on DDC.
Problem identification
Classification schemes are used for the purpose of
knowledge organization, retrieval and dissemination
of information or document to the library in time.
There are many sub classes in this ‘000’ Class mostly
which were treated as auxiliaries. But over time it has
been found that most of them have gained the
capacity to be treated as an independent subject or a
broad class. This paper tried to study exhaustively to
find the treatment and growth of all the facets of 000
Class.
Therefore the specific problems identifies as-
Which subclass or facets of 000 Class may
be considered as Subject?
If they considered as subject then from which
domain they should be belonged to?
Objectives of the study
The objectives of the present study is to measure the
development of the entries in the ‘Computer science,
information & general works’ Class (000) and to find out
the treatment of facets in other different classes as well as
to identify the changes of terminology due to development
of subjects under Generalities class in different editions of
DDC.
To be precise, aims of this article are-
1. To identify which of the new concepts have been added
over time to time in 000 Class.
2. To identify which sub-class may be treated as subjects
in 000 Class
4. To mapping of which of the facets became obsolete
over time from 000 Class.
Methodology
This is a Survey method used study of the subject
especially 000 class of DDC 1 st to 23 rd edition. This article
makes a portrait of the facet analysis with new
terminological change and changes of nomenclature in the
000 class. For this study data of 1 st to 20 th editions have
been collected from the website of Internet Archive and
the data 21 st to 23 rd editions are collected from its print
version. To establishment and identify those as subject the
data have been compared with Sears List of Subject
Heading 21 st ed. This also compared with the course
studies curriculum of NIRF top ten ranking universities.