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PMEST

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PMESTPersonality, Matter, Energy, Space, Time


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In the case of the Colon Classification, the notations are combined in the order of the famous PMEST [Personality, Matter, Energy, Space, Time] facet formula.
The (British) Classification Research Group (CRG), formed in 1952, developed a more detailed set of categories, entirely consistent with PMEST in outcome but aiming to be more explicit--particularly in its interpretation of Personality; the set may be summarized as Defining system or entity, its Kinds, its Parts, its Materials, its Properties, its Processes, Operations on it, Agents of the Processes and Operations, Place, Time, Forms of presentation (of the information in the documents).
Simultaneously, he notes that there are also several core (he lists eighteen) theoretical codes which can be used, similar to the PMEST categories, to "maintain [a] conceptual level in writing about concepts and their interrelationships" (p.
 
 
 
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