• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.125-145
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• 2003

The core version of UDC(Universal Decimal Classification) is available in an electronic form called MRF(Master Reference File) which supports the maintenance of the quality of the scheme as a working tool for the UDCC(UDC Consortium) by annual reviewing its content and initiating revisions and extensions. In this paper, we discuss outcomes of our in-depth analysis of the geography, biography and history disciplines in UDC focused on the its evolutions and characteristics, including the common auxiliaries of place, the common auxiliaries of time and the common auxiliaries of race, ethnic grouping and nationality. Based on the in-depth analysis, we suggested some ideas which can be applied into the history class of KDC(Korean Decimal Classification). In particular, its principle of combination methods in the history of individual regions, the way of its assignment of physical geography and human geography in the same division, the possibilities of the extension of the table of geographical division and the adaptation of the table of chronological division in KDC.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.73-94
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• 2004

This study is made of proofreading some documents about ‘Tripitaka Koreana’, which was unknown and not noticed quite well until now and is also for montemplating the features of ‘Qidanzang’ that were accepted in ‘Tripitaka’. By all the researches the following facts were found out. First, ‘Qidanzang’ included in ‘Tripitaka’ were all 18 cases. Second, ‘Qidanzang’ that were corrected and accepted into ‘Tripitaka’ were 42cases. Third, ‘Qidanzang’ that have errors at comparing documents were all 11cases. Fourth the sutra that were accepted in the comparative book were all 57 cases. Fifth, unaccepted sutras , which were found out at comparative documents, were 4cases. At last, from the analysis abouve, we notice that most of the ‘Qidanzang’, not part of it, were accepted into ‘Tripitaka Koreana’ and like the previous viewpoint, ‘Qidanzang’ was an excellent book but it also had a few mistakes.