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The scheme of
classification drawn up by Herbert Putnam in 1897.
Devised by
Melvil Dewey and first published anonymously in 1876.
DDC Tables
It was developed
by the Institut Internationale de Bibliographie, now FID, under the
direction of Paul Otlet and Henri la Fontaine. Essentially an elaborate
expansion of the Decimal Classification of Melvil Dewey, using various
symbols in addition to Arabic numerals to create long and expressive
notations for particular documents.
Designed by S.R.
Ranganathan, it is based on the classification of any subject by its
uses and relations, which are indicated by numbers divided by a colon
':'. It was the first example of an analytico-synthetic classification,
in which the subject field is first analysed into facets, and class
numbers are then constructed by synthesis.
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