The use of faceted classification in the organisation of engineering design documents

摘要: The adoption of a product service or support model in place provision has implications upon the strategies employed organisation and retrieval engineering information. In order to ensure that such organisational schemes endure over extended time spans, structure these must cater for all viewpoints provide context necessary comprehend information content. Traditional, enumerative classification generally limited viewpoint perspective, however faceted addresses this by concurrently describing multiple aspects facets given document allowing proceed via browsing facet combination facets. Faceted was first formalised within field library science early 20 century, whilst notions structures have been appended into primarily there are few implementations pure models, arguably as it is not possible reorder physical documents according interest. Electronic documentation no restriction, fuelled resurgence interest classification. Whilst concept means understood; literature specifying how scheme should be created domain sparse, distributed across different domains eras. This paper reviews proposes which underlying theory may more readily applied design documentation.