There are two major ways to organize resources. One way is to assign each resource a position within a classification system. Dewey Decimal and the Library of Congress classification systems work this way. But there are many such ways to classify resources. And some resources might not fit easily into a single category. Another way is to look at the properties of a resource. Who is it by? What is it about? Each of these properties - or 'facets' - is given a rigourous description, sometimes using a canonical vocabularity. Classification then becomes a matter of organizing by common properties. This is faceted classification. This PowerPoint presentation examines the deployment of a faceted classification system within the Government of Canada, and includes a description of the architecture and reference to some major principles of facted classification, and specifically, the Spiteri Model for Facet Analysis. Good stuff.
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