From time immemorial, man has been driven by the thirst for knowledge. To amass knowledge has been the singular function that has brought men out of the dark ages of mysticism and taken us into space. Before the word was put on paper, entire bodies of knowledge were handed down from teacher to student by rote.

Few may be aware of Demetrius of Phaleron, but a quick Wikipedia search puts him as a student of Aristotle, and probably the world’s first librarian who was responsible for creating the ancient library of Alexandria. Historians have given the library the distinction of having been the first known singular place where knowledge from all over the explored world was collated and documented on scrolls. Carved into its walls was an inscription that read ‘The place of the cure of the soul.’

The creation of the Dewey Decimal System in 1879, by Melvil Dewey, resulted in a breakthrough in categorizing texts of knowledge. The Dewey Decimal System is a proprietary system of library classification where books in a library are organized in a specific order. This makes it easy to find any text.

Mapping all these breakthroughs in a step-by-step manner has enabled us to evolve the DMS that is in use today.

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