Document Type
Article
Date
1-1-1991
Keywords
Classification, organization, organization of ofiice documents, Organization of documents.
Disciplines
Library and Information Science
Description/Abstract
The authors describe the difficulties of translating classifications from a source language and culture to another language and culture. To demonstrate these problems, kinship terms and concepts from native speakers of fourteen languages were collected and analyzed to find differences between their terms and structures and those used in English. Using the representations of kinship terms in the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) and the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) as examples, the authors identified the source of possible lack of mapping between the domain of kinship in the fourteen languages studied and the LCC and DDC. Finally, some preliminary suggestions for how to make translated classifications more linguistically and culturally hospitable are offered.
Recommended Citation
Kwasnik, Barbara H., "The Importance of Factors that are not Document Attributes in the Organization of Personal Documents." (1991). School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship. 146.
https://surface.syr.edu/istpub/146
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Additional Information
The downloadable article is the final manuscript of the published article , The importance of factors that are not document attributs in the organization of personal documents in the Journal of Documentation. All rights reserved to the author, Kwasnik, B. The article is under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Licenses Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eb026886