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Ranganathan’s Contributions to Knowledge Organization and Presentation


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1 Centre for Knowledge Analytics and Ontological Engineering – KAnOE, PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore 560085, India
2 Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, 702, Upstairs, 42nd Cross, Rajajinagar 3rd Block, Bangalore 560010, India
     

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Knowledge Organization tools can be used for a variety of purposes including arranging information objects, representation of their aboutness, displaying semantic relations between concepts and even for presentation of ideas in texts. The paper highlights some of the major contributions of Ranganathan to the theory and practice of knowledge organization.

Keywords

Knowledge Organization, Ranganathan, S.R., Colon Classification, Fundamental Categories
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About The Authors

K. S. Raghavan
Centre for Knowledge Analytics and Ontological Engineering – KAnOE, PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore 560085
India

A. Neelameghan
Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, 702, Upstairs, 42nd Cross, Rajajinagar 3rd Block, Bangalore 560010
India


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Authors

K. S. Raghavan
Centre for Knowledge Analytics and Ontological Engineering – KAnOE, PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore 560085, India
A. Neelameghan
Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, 702, Upstairs, 42nd Cross, Rajajinagar 3rd Block, Bangalore 560010, India

Abstract


Knowledge Organization tools can be used for a variety of purposes including arranging information objects, representation of their aboutness, displaying semantic relations between concepts and even for presentation of ideas in texts. The paper highlights some of the major contributions of Ranganathan to the theory and practice of knowledge organization.

Keywords


Knowledge Organization, Ranganathan, S.R., Colon Classification, Fundamental Categories

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