Canons for Idea Plane Dr. Yesan Sellan Assistant Professor, DLIS, BHC
Canons for Characteristics • Differentiation, Relevance, Ascertainability , Permanence • Canons for succession of characteristics • Concomitance, Relevant Succession Consistent Succession • Canons for Array • Exhaustiveness, Exclusiveness, Helpful Sequence, Consistent Sequence • Canons for Chain • Decreasing Extension, Modulation • Canon of Filiatory Sequence • Subordinate Classes, Coordinate Classes
Canons for Characteristics Canon of Differentiation - Canon of Relevance, - relevant to the purpose of classification Selection of a boy/girl for debate competition – knowledge Vs Beauty Canon of Ascertainability , - date of birth of authors than date of death Canon of Permanence – unchanged
Canons for Succession of Characteristics Application / arrangement of characteristics one after other Eg. Organising collection of literature based on (Language, Form, author and title) Concomitance, - Not to use Age and Year birth for classifying men Relevant Succession – apply the sequence that is relevant to the purpose of classification. Consistent Succession – consistent in arrangement.
Canons for Array Canon of Exhaustiveness Canon of Exclusiveness Canon of Helpful sequence Canon of Consistent Sequence