Categories in Charles A. Cutter's Systems of Subject Cataloging and Bibliographical Classification
Thomas M. Dousa · NASKO · 2017
Categories!are!considered!to!be!an!essential!element!in!the!design!of!many!knowledge!organization!systems!(KOSs),!particularly!those!following!the! categorial!approach!of!faceted!analysis.! Standard!narratives! of!knowledge!organization!(KO)! identify!S.R.! Ranganthan! as! the! founder!of!the! categorial!approach!to!KO.! However,!they!also!acknowledge!that!elements!of!a!categorial!approach!to!KO!can!be!found!in!a!number!of! earlier!KOSs!