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Dynamic Reframing of "Union": Implications for the coherence of knowledge, social organization and personal identity (Part #2)

In the case of the Union of International Associations, this may be seen as having been characterized by the intimate early relations that "UIA¹" (through a "UIA⁰"?) had to the origins of the international classification sciences, especially through its close association (through Paul Otlet) with the International Institute of Bibliography (cf W Boyd Rayward, The Origins of Information Science and the International Institute of Bibliography / International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID), 1997). In the development of the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC), it is understandable that the "universal classification" of knowledge was a fundamental dimension of the early understanding of "union" -- employed by UIA¹ through to the 1960s.

Breaking away from the UDC, this understanding was further developed within UIA¹ in the light of the following:

a concern with frameworks appropriate to interrelating perspectives of those who seemingly disagree (Functional Synthesis of Viewpoints: a conceptual model based on purpose, 1968)
a concern with the variety of potentially significant "integrative concepts" (Integrative Knowledge and Transdisciplinarity Project, 1975; Documents relating to Synthesis, Transdisciplinarity and Integration)
procedures towards establishing a "concept inventory" (Toward a Concept Inventory: suggestions for a computerised procedure, 1973)
the need to move beyond the constraints of the UDC and other such systems in order to present a more integrative insight into the relationships between areas of activity of international organizations (Functional Classification in an Integrative Matrix of Human Preoccupations, 1982)
a concern for the implication of the variety of ways of knowing (Encyclopedia of Conceptual Insights from the World's Cultures, 1988)

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