[rclis] JITA schema for E-LIS

[Antonella De Robbio (Casa)]

The JITA revised version is available at the url:
  	
         http://rclis.org/internal/jita.txt

This last version is based on previously version by Thomas, preserved at

	http://rclis.org/internal/jita_2002-10-31.txt

There is also a commented version of JITA classification schema at

         http://rclis.org/internal/jita-comments.txt

to understand the logical paths that led to formulating such a structure.

JITA Classification System of Library and Information Science 
[2002-10-31 version]

The blocks (sections) order has been re-organized in order to keep 
logically connected blocks closer.
The 12 blocks are ranged in 3 implicit (virtual) areas:
1.[Theoretical and General]: general level
2.[User oriented, directional, and management functionalities]: 
intermediate level (socio-economical and giuridical issues are included 
here)
3.[Objects, Pragmatics and Technicalities]: specific level

[Theoretical and General]
A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information
B. Information use and sociology of information

[User oriented, directional, and management functionalities]
G. Users, literacy and reading
M. Libraries and information repositories (new, an offspring from F)
K. Publishing and legal issues
L. Management
E. Industry, profession and education

[Object, Pragmatics and Technicalities]
H. Information sources, supports, channels (including J)
C. Information treatement for information services (including part of I)
F. Technical services in libraries, archives and museums (partially 
split to M)
N. Housing technologies (new, an offspring from F)
D. Information [technology] and library technology (including part of I)


Of course if this asset is retained good we have to rename the letters 
in right order

Notes:

1)After comments by Lorcan Dempsey the records management area here is 
divided under different sections: archives as informations repositories 
under M (new), archival materials and rare books and manuscripts as 
documents under H, and records keeping as an operational
process under F. So the J section was cancelled.

2) After comments by Thomas, the section I (information retrieval) has 
been distributed under C and D, depending on the functional oriented or 
technological oriented meaning of the terms

3) After comments by Sophie Rigny intellectual content analysis was 
removed and classification was addedd in C. Furthermore cataloguing, 
indexing and classification, are however placed under C
Information treatement for information services rather than F Technical 
services.
Serials management was moved under technical services.
A new section was created to group different kinds of libraries by 
target together archives and museums.
The distinction between administrative typologies and functional 
typologies is not so much relevant in views of e-prints deposit.
About library building area, the specification of processes (planning, 
design, removal) was maintained
but under a new section Housing technologies (an offspring from F).

4) The terms under each sections are here displayed one for line (like 
ACM classification terms)
although they are not to be considered a further level for deposit.

See the entire file for the whole commented version of the 
JITAclassification (in particular see notes under each section)
http://rclis.org/internal/jita-comments.txt


Cheers
Antonella