Three planes of work, basic conepts and terminology
1. Canons for three Planes:
Idea, Verbal, Notation
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Dr. Shalini R. Lihitkar
Associate Professor
Department of Library and Informati
on Science
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj
Nagpur University
Nagpur
2. Basic Concepts and Terminology
• The class to which all other classes will
hang
• Eg. Students in a class room
Original Universe
• A class containing one and only
one entity
Eg. A boy in a classroom
Unitary Class
•Class consisting of two or more
entities
•Eg. Boys in a class room
Multiple Class
3. • Any sub-aggregate of entitites
formed by the division of a
universe
• Eg. Groups of boys by age
Group
• Arranging groups in a
definite sequence
Eg. Boys arranged by
increasing order of their
age
Ranking
•A ranked group is called a
class
•Eg. Class of 11 years old
Class
4. •The principle of division
•Eg. Age is a characteristic by means of
which boys were divided
•Eg. Height, qualification , mother
tongue etc
Characteristic
• Classes derived from a
universe by a single
characteristic
Eg. Boys as group A/C to
height ( Short, Medium, Tall)
Array
•Classes having Lineal Kinship
•Eg. World-Asia-India-
Maharashtra- Nagpur
Chain
5. Scheme for Classification
• A scheme for classification is a scheme of
classes filled with Terminology and
Notation
• Scheme for classification involves work in
the
• Idea Plane,
• Terminology involves work in Verbal
Plane and
• Notation involves work in Notational
Plane.