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Huajun HUANG, Xinhong ZENG, Weiming LIN & Ruoyun CHEN / Formal semantic description standard family for 087
Chinese KOS (Ⅱ): Research and implementation of Classification Scheme Sharing Service System

with the base number from the schedules and notations from the subdivision tables by computer
programs. Taking Table 2 for example, operation steps of number building are shown in Figure 3.
Computer programs automatically calculate the accurate combined class numbers according to
subdivision regulations. And the same results can be got through invoking Web Service APIs.
The Web versions of DDC, LCC and UDC all provide number building functions. At present, the
Web version of CLC v5.0 of the NLC does not provide the function yet. Compared with the Web
versions of international mainstream classification schemes, it started late, but the possibility of
providing the functionality of building new class numbers with the existing class numbers for users
in the future should not be excluded.

Table 2. The random test data of subdivision operation
Main Subdivision Combined class
Title Subdivision regulations
keywords keywords numbers
The folk arts and crafts→TS938. The main
table doesn’t specify adding subdivisions from
The Uygur The folk arts Uyghur Chinese Nationality Table. But when needed to
folk arts and and crafts nationality be subdivided with the table, we need to add “2” TS938“215”
crafts which is the notation for Chinese nationality in
front of “15” which is the notation for Uyghur
nationality. The result is “215”

Literature in various countries→I3/7.This
book is the comment on American modern
poetry, so adding notation from the Global
Anxiety of Area Table at first, then subdivide using the
influence: a Literature in American specific subdivision table for I3/7. The class I712.072
theory of poem various countries poetry number after subdivisions is I712.072. The
(America) notation 712 represents America in the Global
Area Table and the notation 072 means poetry
review in the specific subdivision table for
I3/7

Figure 3. The screenshots about CLSS’s number building.