I’m putting this here for later. These are some links on the concept of classification systems. It would seem that I am one of those people who have independently re-discovered something called “faceted classifications”. There is a lot of stuff. I’ll be going through it later and giving my thoughts.
- Faceted hierarchy as killer app – Metafilter
- Limits Of Hierarchies
- metamodel.com – What are the differences between a vocabulary, a taxonomy, a thesaurus, an ontology, and a meta-model-
- Metadata- Thesauri- Taxonomies- Topic Maps!
A good series at Boxes and Arrows:
- Boxes and Arrows- All About Facets & Controlled Vocabularies
- Boxes and Arrows- What Is A Controlled Vocabulary
- Boxes and Arrows- Creating a Controlled Vocabulary
- Boxes and Arrows- Synonym Rings and Authority Files
- Boxes and Arrows- Controlled Vocabularies- A Glosso-Thesaurus
Specifically about facets in depth: