[Sigia-l] Re: Faceted Classification

karl fast karl.fast at pobox.com
Fri Jul 12 20:27:49 EDT 2002


> CFa> Without a controlled vocabulary,
> CFa> there would be these two facets with the same content.
> 
> I'd rather not refer to facets here, because I'd say that is a
> non-standard use of the term "facet." I've studied the work of
> Ranganathan years ago in grad school, but I've been wrong before.

I agree. For anyone interested, see my related post 'facet vs. term
vs. concept' where I try to explain this (and probably fail
miserably).


--karl




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