Organizing information: principles of data base and retrieval systems
Organizing information: principles of data base and retrieval systems
Visualizing a discipline: an author co-citation analysis of information science, 1972–1995
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
The impact of query structure and query expansion on retrieval performance
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Online Information Retrieval: Concepts, Principles, and Techniques
Online Information Retrieval: Concepts, Principles, and Techniques
Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective
Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Social Information Retrieval Systems: Emerging Technologies and Applications for Searching the Web Effectively
Semantics and knowledge organization
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Faceted Search
Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines
Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines
Complex concepts into basic concepts
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
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The facet-analytic paradigm is probably the most distinct approach to knowledge organization within Library and Information Science, and in many ways it has dominated what has be termed ''modern classification theory''. It was mainly developed by S.R. Ranganathan and the British Classification Research Group, but it is mostly based on principles of logical division developed more than two millennia ago. Colon Classification (CC) and Bliss 2 (BC2) are among the most important systems developed on this theoretical basis, but it has also influenced the development of other systems, such as the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) and is also applied in many websites. It still has a strong position in the field and it is the most explicit and ''pure'' theoretical approach to knowledge organization (KO) (but it is not by implication necessarily also the most important one). The strength of this approach is its logical principles and the way it provides structures in knowledge organization systems (KOS). The main weaknesses are (1) its lack of empirical basis and (2) its speculative ordering of knowledge without basis in the development or influence of theories and socio-historical studies. It seems to be based on the problematic assumption that relations between concepts are a priori and not established by the development of models, theories and laws.