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"Facet analysis results in more varied, multidimensional relationships, at least in theory, better reflecting the complexity of subject knowledge"
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Brian Campbell VickeryClassification in documentation is a tool for selection. It is essenti — Brian Campbell Vickery
"Classification in documentation is a tool for selection. It is essentially a finding system for subject items... It is an artificial language, designed as a tool to aid in the selection of information from a store in response to search questions. The classification serves to standardise subject description, so that the description of a subject used by indexer and inquirer are more likely to coincide, thus maximising the probability of finding all items relevant to an inquiry."
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"[Vickery in his handbook of procedures for making , writes that organizing a field into facets] can be achieved only by a detailed examination of the literature of the field"
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"The crux of the retrieval problem is that selecting documents to read grows ever more difficult, and new techniques are continually needed."
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"Information retrieval is now an accepted part of the new discipline of information science and technology... I have concentrated on the field with which I am most familiar, the problems of bibliographic description and subject analysis."
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"Information science is concerned with every aspect of the chain of information transfer activities, but the heart of its interest is information search."
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"Citation does not necessarily reflect current demand."
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