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Permalink Reply by Virupaksh BH on December 14, 2010 at 19:24

A faceted classification system allows the assignment of multiple classifications to an object, enabling the classifications to be ordered in multiple ways, rather than in a single, pre-determined, taxonomic order. A facet comprises "clearly defined, mutually exclusive, and collectively exhaustive aspects, properties or characteristics of a class or specific subject".^[1] For example, a collection of books might be classified using an author facet, a subject facet, a date facet,

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Permalink Reply by Mamta Verma on December 14, 2010 at 19:31

Faceted classification is a system in which the particular concept is categorised in diffrent categories i. e. facets and classified accordingly. Example is Colon Classification devised by Dr. S. R. Ranganathan in which title is divided in diffrent facets i. e. Personality, Matter, Energy, Space and Time. DDC is not a faceted classification scheme. It is allmost enumerative classification scheme.

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Permalink Reply by Parvez Ahmad on December 15, 2010 at 1:36

Thanks kamal mam for nice explaining of  facet scheme.

 

pvz

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Permalink Reply by Jayshree Dave on December 15, 2010 at 16:42

thank you mam for explaining faceted classification.

 

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Permalink Reply by Gautam Bahl on December 14, 2010 at 21:01

Dear Ms. Dave,

 

Attached article will give you some insight into the topic.

Attachments:

• faceted classification.pdf, 250 KB

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Permalink Reply by Jayshree Dave on December 15, 2010 at 16:44

thank you sir for the nice explanation

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Permalink Reply by Mrs.K Kavita Rao on December 14, 2010 at 22:04

Faceted Classification

'Facet' is a generic term used to denote either a Basic Subject or an Isolate Idea. It is used in referring to the components of a subject having both of them.

Faceted classification is “the sorting of terms in a given field of knowledge into homogeneous, mutually exclusive facets, each derived from the parent universe by a single characteristic of division”. Suggested in the 1930s by Ranganathan and codified in his system of classification, it has become an important tool in library and information science for constructing thesauri, building retrieval schemes for particular groups of users, and in many circumstances for cataloging information.

 

Important points are:

• the division of fields of knowledge into categories that may express different aspects (facets) of the knowledge (especially from the point of view of information retrieval). This stands in contrast to schemes that would assign each document (book, article, and so on) to a single rigid value in a universal hierarchical classification scheme;
• the combination of a system of notation, of analysis of knowledge classes, and the physical storage and retrieval of documents and parts of documents into an integrated system;
• an iterative and evolving set of classifications which may flexibly serve the needs of particular groups of users;
• the importance of comparing and synthesizing analytic facets in order to reflect changing knowledge and changing user needs;
• a movement away from a flat proliferation of particular (phenorneno- logical) aspects of a field of knowledge, toward a synthetic representation that includes basic (both abstract and concrete) categories. These latter, crucially, remain open to revision.

 Ref: http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/8215/librarytr...

 

 

The following papers(attachments) may help you to know more

 

 

Attachments:

• chp5.pdf, 433 KB
• The_implementation.pdf, 466 KB
• needforfacetcllasftn.pdf, 264 KB

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Permalink Reply by Jayshree Dave on December 15, 2010 at 16:43

thank you mam for explining faceted classification

 

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