The arts

Abstract

This classification of the arts is designed to perform two major functions: to serve as a library classification which will organize a comprehensive collection of documents or other records on the arts in a clear and logical sequence on library shelves, or descriptive entries for them in catalogues and bibliographies or other media. The fundamental purpose of its logical structure is to make the locating of any particular subject within the general class, however complex, highly predictable - the central requirement of any instrument for information retrieval; to serve as a highly structured and detailed map of the concepts in the field of the arts; this may be used as the basis for thesauri or other aids for searching an information store through the control of synonyms and the comprehensive display of the connections of all kinds between the different concepts (Ref. 1).