What is faceted Classification?

[Jayshree Dave]

What is Faceted Classification ? It is Developed by S.R. Ranganathan . Is it applicable In DDC ?

[Virupaksh BH]

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,

[Mamta Verma]

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.

[Parvez Ahmad]

Thanks kamal mam for nice explaining of  facet scheme.

 

pvz

[Jayshree Dave]

thank you mam for explaining faceted classification.

 

[Gautam Bahl]

Dear Ms. Dave,

 

Attached article will give you some insight into the topic.

[Jayshree Dave]

thank you sir for the nice explanation

[Mrs.K Kavita Rao]

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

 

 

[Jayshree Dave]

thank you mam for explining faceted classification