“This is a classified, annotated bibliography about how to design faceted classification systems and make them usable on the World Wide Web.” (William Denton – Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto) – courtesy of iaslash

“(…) the glossary is itself a controlled vocabulary, more specifically a thesaurus. So you will find all of the standard features of any thesaurus: broader, narrower, and variant term indicators, as well as scope notes. In this case, however, the scope notes provide the definition of the particular glossary term being presented.” (Karl Fast et al. – Boxes and Arrows)

“Whether people deny it or not (…) the Semantic Web really is an attempt to reconceptualize and reengineer AI for the Web.” (Kendall Grant Clark – xml.com)

“A faceted classification uses clearly defined, mutually exclusive, and collectively exhaustive aspects, properties, or characteristics (a.k.a. facets) of a class or specific subject. The idea for a faceted classification really began with the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) in which a standard number representing place (location) was appended to a subject number by a device now known as a facet indicator. However, Dewey did not develop the idea further and in the early 1930s, Ranganathan formalized the use of the fully faceted approach with his Colon Classification. Other classification schemes such as Universal Decimal Classification, now provide facets for places, time periods and forms. More recently, work has been undertaken to develop the Bliss Bibliographic Classification (BC2) into a fully faceted classification scheme.” (School of Library, Archival and Information Studies – The University of British Columbia) – courtesy of james robertson