Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
Subject Analysis on Online Catalogs
Subject Analysis on Online Catalogs
Analysis in indexing: document and domain centered approaches
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Cross-language information retrieval
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Modeling classification systems in SKOS: some challenges and best-practice recommendations
DCMI '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications
Biological names and taxonomies on the semantic web: managing the change in scientific conception
ESWC'11 Proceedings of the 8th extended semantic web conference on The semanic web: research and applications - Volume Part II
Some temporal aspects of indexing and classification: toward a metrics for measuring scheme change
Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
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This article introduces the problem of collocative integrity present in long-lived classification schemes that undergo several changes. A case study of the subject “eugenics” in the Dewey Decimal Classification is presented to illustrate this phenomenon. Eugenics is strange because of the kinds of changes it undergoes. The article closes with a discussion of subject ontogeny as the name for this phenomenon and describes implications for information searching and browsing. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.