Principais contribuições teóricas de Ranganathan para a teoria da classificação

Abstract

This work contextualizes the main theoretical contributions to The Classification theory. Identifies elements of Ranganathan's academic and professional career, with special emphasis on the major works created by him. It addresses the Five Laws of Library and writes about the current approaches of these statements. The main historic landmarks ofand philosophical and literature classifications are presented in order to demonstrate that it have evolved from purely philosophical schemes, it is focused on the systematization of knowledge for modern bibliographic classification systems. Presents the main concepts and definitions for the classification of The Faceted Theory and relates them to The ConceptTheory from Ingetraut Dahlberg. The faceted analysis is identified as a new contribution to the classification process, by allowing the approach of several points of views about the same subject, as opposed to the enumerative systems. It Highlights the canon of the classification proposed by Ranganathan for the organization of classes of concepts. ItSituates the five major categories, known as PMEST, and identifies critical in the literature about this form of categorization. There are located the Universe of Knowledge´s Spiral and Development of Subjects´ Spiral, the latter understood as meta-spiral of the first one. It Highlights the Classification of Two Points and / or Colon Classification, published for the first time in 1933. Considerations are woven today about the applicability of the faceted classification .