The strange case of eugenics: A subject's ontogeny in a long-lived classification scheme and the question of collocative integrity.
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 c...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology Vol. 63; no. 7; pp. 1350 - 1360 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul2012
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