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Unit 3: Organization in Classification Research

CONTENTS
Objectives

Introduction

3.1 Documentation Research and Training Centre
3.2 International Society for Knowledge Organization

3.3 Classification Research Group

3.4 Summary
3.5 Keywords

3.6 Review Questions
3.7 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
• Know about the fundamental of classification
• Know about the research institutes and their functions
• Know about the international society for knowledge organization.

Introduction

The Classification Research Group (CRG) was a significant contributor to classification
research and theory in the field of library and information science in the latter half of the
20th century. It was formed in England in 1952 and was active until 1968. Among its
members were Derek Austin, Eric Coates (classification researcher), Jason Farradane, Robert
Fairthorne, Douglas Foskett, Barbara Kyle, Derek Lang ridge, Jack Mills (classification
researcher), Bernard Palmer, Jack Wells and Brian Campbell Vickery.
The group formed important principles on faceted classification and also worked on the
theory of Integrative levels. An integrative level, or level of organization, is a set of phenomena
emerging on pre-existing phenomena of lower level. Typical examples include life emerging
on non-living sustances, and consciousness emerging on nervous systems. Integrative levels,
or the disciplines focusing on them, form the main classes of several knowledge organization
systems, including Roget’s Thesaurus, the Bliss bibliographic classification, the Colon
classification, and the Information coding classification.

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