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This chapter highlights moves away from the strict hierarchies of traditional taxonomy to models where metadata is viewed more as a network. Facetted classification, proposed by the Indian librarian S.R. Ranganathan in the 1930s, offers a new way for simple concepts to be combined into more complex subjects with great flexibility. More recently ontologies, ways of expressing complex semantic relationships between concepts in machine-readable form, have become important in information science.
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Gartner, R. (2016). From Hierarchies to Networks. In: Metadata. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40893-4_7
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