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Knowledge Organization: Classification and Cataloguing Theory

Notes 2. National Schemes: National schemes specially created for certain countries. An example is
the Swedish library classification system, SAB (Sveriges Allmanna Biblioteksfforening).
Apart from the advantages and disadvantages of universal classification schemes the
national schemes have some drawbacks as discussed below:

Less or unfamiliar among international users.
Multilingual capability is not a primary concern for national schemes, apart from
countries with multiple languages.
National schemes are likely to have a geographic bias
3. Specific Classification: Specific subject schemes are usually created for special collections
or indexing and/or abstracting services in a scientific discipline. They do have the potential
to provide a structure and terminology much closer to the discipline and can be more
up-to-date, compared to universal schemes. Specific classification schemes for particular
subjects or types of materials.

Example: These include Iconclass, British Catalogue of Music Classification, and Dickinson
classification, or the NLM Classification for medicine.

British Catalogue of Music Classification (BCM): The British Catalogue of Music
Classification (BCM Classification) is a faceted classification that was commissioned
from E. J. Coates by the Council of the British National Bibliography to organize the
content of the British Catalogue of Music. The published schedule (1960) was
considerably expanded by Patrick Mills of the British Library up until its use was
abandoned in 1998. Entries in the catalogue were organized by BCM classmark from
the catalogue’s inception in 1957 until 1982. From that year the British Catalogue of
Music (which from 1974 onward was published by The British Library) was organized
instead by Dewey Decimal Classification number, though BCM class marks continued
to be added to entries up to the 1998 annual accumulation. The schedule is divided
into two main parts: A-B representing Musical literature and C-Z representing Music
— Scores and Parts.

Did u know? There are also seven auxiliary tables dealing with various sub-arrangements,
sets of ethnic/locality subdivisions and chronological reference points.

Dickinson classification: The Dickinson classification is a library classification scheme
used to catalogue and classify musical compositions. It was developed by George
Sherman Dickinson (1886 - 1964), and is used by many music libraries, primarily
those at University at Buffalo, Vassar, and Columbia Universities. It is fully detailed
by Carol June Bradley in The Dickinson classification: a cataloguing & classification
manual for music; including a reprint of the George Sherman Dickinson Classification
of Musical Compositions published by Carlisle Books (1968).
National Library of Medicine Classification (NLM): The National Library of Medicine
(NLM) classification system is a library indexing system covering the fields of
medicine and preclinical basic sciences. The NLM classification is patterned after the
Library of Congress (LC) Classification system: alphabetical letters denote broad
subject categories which are subdivided by numbers. For example, QW 279 would
indicate a book on an aspect of microbiology or immunology.

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