DIN Standards Committee Information and Documentation
Classification Systems — Establishment and development of classification systems
Abstract
This standard covers all possibilities of organizing knowledge according to factual and systematic aspects with the aid of classification systems. Areas of application of the standard are, for example, the fields of: Librarianship, information and documentation, organization, personnel and accounting, statistics, terminology. The following items, for example, can be classified: Services; documents; digital resources: individual parts; geographical regions and administrative units; institutions; organisms and living beings, processes and phenomena; substances, materials, preparations and goods; subject areas; theories, hypotheses and other intellectual products. This standard describes: what classification systems are and what they are used for; what elements and structures classification systems have; what types of classification systems exist; how classification systems are to be created, designed, maintained and developed. The rules contained in this standard apply to universal and special classifications. They are intended to facilitate the uniform creation and further development of classification systems. The standard does not describe the procedures of numerical taxonomy (binary classification, biological nomenclature, biological systematics).
Begin
2024-11-25
Planned document number
DIN 32705
Project number
00900151
Responsible national committee
NA 009-00-09 AA - Identification and description
previous edition(s)
Classification systems; establishment and development of classification systems
1987-01
