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Knowledge Organization: Classification and Cataloguing Theory

Notes (c) Systems compound basic subjects.
(d) Multiple compound basic subjects.

2.4.11 Specials Compound Basic Subjects Notes

“The core entity of study in the subjects going with a particular primary basic subject may be
restricted or qualified using speciators derived on the basis of relevant characteristics specific to
the subjects concerned, not amounting to any of the anteriorising isolates or any other isolate.”
This is how specials compound basic subjects come up.

Example: Medicine-child; Medicine-adolescent; and Medicine-old age are examples of
specials compound basic subject.
Medicine is a primary basic subject. The core entity of the study of the subjects going with
medicine consists of the human body and its organs. The study of the core entity (that is the
human body and its organs) can be restricted or qualified by the use of speciator derived by
means of relevant characteristics such as “by age,” “by sex” and so on. Thus, the speciators
derived on the basis of “relevant” characteristics can be attached to the primary basic subjects for
qualifying the totality of the studies falling within it is purview, leading thereby to the specials
compound basic subjects. Before deriving speciators take care of the basic characteristics like
subjects or topics.

2.4.12 Multiple Compound Basic Subject

“The studies in subjects going with a primary basic subject can be qualified or restricted using
successively speciators derived on the basis of two or more of the variety of characteristics
mentioned in the preceding sections—that is specials characteristic, environment characteristic,
and systems characteristic.” The speciators can be attached in the prescribed sequence to the
concerned primary basic subject, and, thus, obtaining multiple compound primary basic subjects
or multiple compound basic subjects.

Did u know? Ayurvedic system originated from India. Unani system is originated from
Unan (Egypt).

2.4.13 Agglomerate Basic Subject

“An agglomerate of Kind 1(earlier called partial comprehension) consists of subjects treated
integrally or disjunctively in one and the same document. Agglomerate results from a process
of agglomeration—that is collecting together of entities into larger masses without cohesion
among the components. Agglomerate can be a basic subject—that is the first component in
representing a subject.” The scope of an agglomerate basic subject has to be understood only
with reference to the scheme concerned. Ordinarily, an agglomerate of Kind 1 covers subjects
going with the successive primary basic subjects of a scheme.

Example: Natural science, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences, Social sciences,
History and Political science.
“Agglomerate of kind 2 is an agglomerate comprehending subjects going with non-consecutive
primary basic subjects with respect to the schedules of a particular scheme for classification.”

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