PersonMelvil Dewey
Melvil Dewey
An American librarian who proposed the Dewey Decimal Classification in 1876, exerting a profound influence on library classification systems.
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The Dewey Decimal Classification was proposed by Melville Dewey in 1876, dividing all knowledge into 10 main classes, each further subdivided level by level into 10 divisions and 10 sections, forming a hierarchical numeric coding.
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