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Various classification schemes or templates are described. There is the familiar and widely known Aristotelian-Linnaean Classification. There is the Revisable Aristotelian scheme, which permits the addition of new leaves into the classification tree. There is the Librarian Aristotelian scheme, which uses some non-leaf nodes for classification. There are Polyhierarchies, in which some nodes can have multiple parents. There are Synthetic Classifications, in which the classification nodes are constructed by synthesis. And there are Ersatz Faceted schemes in which the classification is faceted but only to the extent of partitioning the same homogeneous underlying domain. Two examples of Traditional Librarian Classifications are presented and discussed: the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) and Ranganathan’s Colon Classification (CC).
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Frické, M. (2012). Classification. In: Logic and the Organization of Information. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3088-9_5
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