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Library Classification and Cataloguing Theory

Notes One of the objectives of the series of experiments conducted was to examine the feasibility of using
a conventional general purpose computer in document finding system using a freely faceted
version of CC.’ Experiments were also carried out to design a special purpose computerised
document searching and called Doc. Number of papers were written on these experiments and
published in Library Science with a slant to Documentation, Vol. 5 and 6. In a paper published in
1970s about information retrieval system based on CC described a set of fifteen programmes
which provide for storing and updating a reference catalogue, a classification schedule, an
alphabetical index to the schedule and a catalogue of user profiles.’
Michael Shepherd of the School of Computer Science, Canada, also conducted a set of experiments in
1981 to determine the suitability of CC as a basis for automated analysis, representation and retrieval
of primary information from the full text of documents. He, however, concluded stating that the
CG-based systems did not perform significantly better than the other systems. However, Michael A
Shepherd and CR Watters in a paper presented in International Conference on Ranganathan in 1985,
demonstrated that the recent developments in the area of relational database management system
(DBMS) are making it feasible to take the advantage of faceted classification, such as CC for information
retrieval. The purpose of this paper was to demonstrate that, in addition to traditional Boolean
retrieval, relational DBMS can provide sophisticated retrieval based or ( the faceted structure of
subjects. It can readily provide answers to such question as: What are the matter isolates of a given
Personality? What is the facet string for a particular document? To them the use of such a relational
structure may even be able to provide the basis for common retrieval language as suggested by
Ranganathan’.

3.3 International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO)

This society was founded at Frankfurt, Germany, in 1989. Its founder -president is Dr Ingetraut
Dahlberg. The principal aim of this society is “to promote research, development and application
of all methods for organization of knowledge in general and in particular fields, by integrating
especially the conceptual approaches of classification research and artificial intelligence. The society
stresses philosophical, psychological and systematic approaches for conceptual objects”.
The society provides for personal contact and opportunities to the worldwide community of
colleagues who devote themselves to the creation, expansion, revision and application of tools for
the organization of knowledge according to the conceptual point of view. The society has already
organized four international ISKO conferences. The summary of these conferences’ deliberations
has been presented later. The society is also bringing out a quarterly journal entitled “Knowledge
Organization”, formerly known as International Classification. This is devoted to concept theory,
classification, and indexing and knowledge representation.
An interdisciplinary association, ISKO's worldwide membership draws from fields such as information
science, philosophy, linguistics, library science, archive studies, science studies, and computer science.
ISKO “promotes research, development and applications of knowledge organization systems that
advance the philosophical, psychological and semantic approaches for ordering knowledge; provides
the means of communication and networking on knowledge organization for its members; and
functions as a connecting link between all institutions and national societies, working with problems
related to the conceptual organization and processing of knowledge.”
The Society publishes the quarterly academic journal Knowledge Organization, and it holds an
international conference every two years. It officially recognizes national chapters in Brazil, Canada,
China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
ISKO cooperates with international and national organizations such as UNESCO, the European
Commission, the International Organization for Standardization, the International Federation of
Library Associations and Institutions, the American Society for Information Science and Technology,
the Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services, and the International Information
Centre for Terminology.
Founded in 1973, Knowledge Organization (sometimes abbreviated as KO) is the official quarterly
double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal of ISKO. It was formerly known as International
Classification until 1993, when the title changed to its current form. Published in English, the
Society describes the journal's scope this way:

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