Different communities may be interested in the sameobject (e.g. a stone in the field [or a given book]) butmay interpret it differently (e.g. from an archeologicalor geological point of view). What is informative(and thus information) depends on the point of viewof the specific community.
There's no information without attributed meaning.
Faceted systems differ fromenumerative systems by not listing all their classes, but pro-vide building blocks from which specific classes for eachdocument may be formed. It still has a strong position inthe field and it is the most explicit and “pure” theoreticalapproach to knowledge organization (KO
But who’s using it? How is this different from Dewey in everyday tasks?
However, it is often difficult to reveal what kind of theo-retical assumption guide KOPs. Such processes are oftendone intuitively and some systems have been difficult to re-late to a theory. However, the following eight+ traditions inand outside KO are probably the most influential and im-portant today.
Interesting! I was expecting something more "black and white" in KO processes, but this is exciting!