Library and Information Science

Library and Information Science ISSN: 2435-8495
三田図書館・情報学会 Mita Society for Library and Information Science
〒108‒8345 東京都港区三田2‒15‒45 慶應義塾大学文学部図書館・情報学専攻内 c/o Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345, Japan
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Library and Information Science 38: 1-22 (1997)
doi:10.46895/lis.38.1

原著論文Original Article

デューイ十進分類法における合成表示は複合主題への対応手段として有効かIs the synthetic expression method of the Dewey Decimal Classification an effective device for treating complex subjects?

図書館情報大学University of Library and Information Science ◇ 〒305-8550 茨城県つくば市春日一丁目2番地 ◇ Kasuga 1-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8550, Japan

受付日:1999年3月12日Received: March 12, 1999
受理日:1999年6月22日Accepted: June 22, 1999
発行日:1999年7月30日Published: July 30, 1999
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It is often explained in textbooks that the synthetic expression method (synthesis of notation by auxiliary tables or other parts of the schedule) of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) is a device for treating complex subjects. However, such an explanation is wrong and based upon a confusion of the “synthetic expression method” for notation system with the “analytico-synthetic procedure” for subject structure. The analytico-synthetic procedure is a procedure for applying division principles to subjects specific to classification systems with multi-dimensional structure such as Colon Classification. While division principles are to be applied in due order in the hierarchical structure, they can freely be applied in the multidimensional structure. Therefore, complex subjects can easily be classified and thus better treated in the latter structure. Also, it is true that most classification systems with the multidimensional structure have adopted the synthetic expression method for their notation systems. However, the subject structure is in principle nothing to do with the notation system of a classification system. Any subject, which can be expressed by the synthetic expression method, can also be expressed by the enumerative method. Therefore, the synthetic expression method of the DDC cannot be an effective device for treating complex subjects (as compared with the enumerative expression method).

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