CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS
All that follows obviously needs to be edited and put into diagramatical order. But here's just some food for thought
CLASSIFICATION
"A classification is a spatial, temporal segmentation of the world. A classifiaction system is a set of boxes, metaphorical or literal, into which things can be put to then do some kind of work -bureaucratic or knowledge production. In an abstract, ideal sense of classification system exhibits the following properties:
-There are consistent, unique classificatory principles in operation.
-The categories are mutually exclusive.
-The system is complete"
Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star
CODE
A set of rules for converting information into another from or representation
1. society: language and scripts such as the alphabet are regarded as code systems
2. biology: the unique genetic code or genome of a human being
3. computer science: the source code, the code of computer programs readable by humans
4. cryptography: the practice and study of hidden information; a cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codeworks
INTELLIGENCE
Measure carried out in government or military operations to acquire information. National secret services are specialized in gathering intelligence. The value does not lie in the details and preciseness of this information but in its assessment regarding relevance and circulation. Four important disciplines are distinguished when gathering intelligence, the so-called 'Ints':
-Humint: Human Intelligence, gaining information from human sources
-Sigint (Signals Intelligence), gaining information through the analysis of signals
-Imint (Imagery Intelligence), gaining information through any kind of image recording
-Masint (Measures and Signatures Intelligence), gaining information through space-based or airborn sensing devices
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDIZATION (ISO)
Association of national standardization committees from more than 157 states. The purpose is to advance standards in the world in order to develop the international exchange of goods and services as well as scientific, technological and economic cooperation.
LEIBNIZ
"A kind of general algebra in which all truths of reason would be reduced to a kind of calculus. At the same time, this would be a kind of universal language or writing, though infinitely different from all such languages which have thus so far been proposed.
LIBRARY CLASSIFICATION
A system for coding and organizing library material according to topics. The thematic fields are usually organized in an hierarchical tree structure. Each work belongs to only one category, so that each book can only be assigned "one" physical location in the library
The poet and librarian of the Library of Alexandria , Callimachus, drew up one of the first library classifications with his Pinakes Index
The two most frequently used library classifications in the Anglo-American countries today are the Dewey Decimal Classifiaction (DDC) and the Library of Congress Classification (LCC)
.DDC: The first edition of the DDC was published in 1876, when libraries started opening their gates to the broader public
.LCC: Created in 1897, is mainly tailored to the requirements of the Library of Congress. It is a set of instructions to find the books stored there and never had the intention of classifying the entire knowledge of the world
.UDC: Universal Decimal Classification based on the classification originally conceived by Leibniz. It was created at the end of the 19th century by the Belgians Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine as the European version of the DDC
.CLC: Chinese Library Classification. The fact that politics also exerts an influence on library classifications can be seen here with "Marxism, Leninism and Maoism" as the first main categories.
The library Hotel in New York (USA) offers its guests more than 6,000 books that are distributed accross the ten floors of the hotel according to the topics of the DDC. The fifth floor is corespondingly dedicated to the "500 sciences" category. In these rooms one can respectively find books of one of the subcategories such as mathematics or botany.
CLASSIFICATION
"A classification is a spatial, temporal segmentation of the world. A classifiaction system is a set of boxes, metaphorical or literal, into which things can be put to then do some kind of work -bureaucratic or knowledge production. In an abstract, ideal sense of classification system exhibits the following properties:
-There are consistent, unique classificatory principles in operation.
-The categories are mutually exclusive.
-The system is complete"
Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh Star
CODE
A set of rules for converting information into another from or representation
1. society: language and scripts such as the alphabet are regarded as code systems
2. biology: the unique genetic code or genome of a human being
3. computer science: the source code, the code of computer programs readable by humans
4. cryptography: the practice and study of hidden information; a cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codeworks
INTELLIGENCE
Measure carried out in government or military operations to acquire information. National secret services are specialized in gathering intelligence. The value does not lie in the details and preciseness of this information but in its assessment regarding relevance and circulation. Four important disciplines are distinguished when gathering intelligence, the so-called 'Ints':
-Humint: Human Intelligence, gaining information from human sources
-Sigint (Signals Intelligence), gaining information through the analysis of signals
-Imint (Imagery Intelligence), gaining information through any kind of image recording
-Masint (Measures and Signatures Intelligence), gaining information through space-based or airborn sensing devices
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDIZATION (ISO)
Association of national standardization committees from more than 157 states. The purpose is to advance standards in the world in order to develop the international exchange of goods and services as well as scientific, technological and economic cooperation.
LEIBNIZ
"A kind of general algebra in which all truths of reason would be reduced to a kind of calculus. At the same time, this would be a kind of universal language or writing, though infinitely different from all such languages which have thus so far been proposed.
LIBRARY CLASSIFICATION
A system for coding and organizing library material according to topics. The thematic fields are usually organized in an hierarchical tree structure. Each work belongs to only one category, so that each book can only be assigned "one" physical location in the library
The poet and librarian of the Library of Alexandria , Callimachus, drew up one of the first library classifications with his Pinakes Index
The two most frequently used library classifications in the Anglo-American countries today are the Dewey Decimal Classifiaction (DDC) and the Library of Congress Classification (LCC)
.DDC: The first edition of the DDC was published in 1876, when libraries started opening their gates to the broader public
.LCC: Created in 1897, is mainly tailored to the requirements of the Library of Congress. It is a set of instructions to find the books stored there and never had the intention of classifying the entire knowledge of the world
.UDC: Universal Decimal Classification based on the classification originally conceived by Leibniz. It was created at the end of the 19th century by the Belgians Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine as the European version of the DDC
.CLC: Chinese Library Classification. The fact that politics also exerts an influence on library classifications can be seen here with "Marxism, Leninism and Maoism" as the first main categories.
The library Hotel in New York (USA) offers its guests more than 6,000 books that are distributed accross the ten floors of the hotel according to the topics of the DDC. The fifth floor is corespondingly dedicated to the "500 sciences" category. In these rooms one can respectively find books of one of the subcategories such as mathematics or botany.
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