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Faceted Classification and Logical Division in Information Retrieval

Mills, Jack

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Title
Faceted Classification and Logical Division in Information Retrieval
Author(s)
Mills, Jack
Issue Date
2004
Keyword(s)
  • Philosophy of information
  • Library science --Philosophy
  • Information science --Philosophy
Abstract
The main object of the paper is to demonstrate in detail the role of classification in information retrieval (IR) and the design of classificatory structures by the application of logical division to all forms of the content of records, subject and imaginative. The natural product of such division is a faceted classification. The latter is seen not as a particular kind of library classification but the only viable form enabling the locating and relating of information to be optimally predictable. A detailed exposition of the practical steps in facet analysis is given, drawing on the experience of the new Bliss Classification (BC2). The continued existence of the library as a highly organized information store is assumed. But, it is argued, it must acknowledge the relevance of the revolution in library classification that has taken place. It considers also how alphabetically arranged subject indexes may utilize controlled use of categorical (generically inclusive) and syntactic relations to produce similarly predictable locating and relating systems for IR.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 2004.

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Library Trends 52 (3) Winter 2004: The Philosophy of Information PRIMARY
Library Trends 52 (3) Winter 2004: The Philosophy of Information. Edited by Ken Herold.