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...

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Publicado en:Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology Vol. 63; no. 7; pp. 1350 - 1360
Autor principal: Tennis, Joseph T.
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jul2012
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