Faceted Ontological Representation for a Music Domain

This paper proposes an analysis of faceted theory and of various knowledge organization approaches. Building upon the faceted theory of S.R. Ranganathan (1967), the paper intends to address the faceted classification approach applied to build domain ontologies. Based on this perspective, an ontology of a music domain has been analyzed that would serve as a case study. As classificatory ontologies are employed to represent the relationships of entities and objects on the web, the faceted approach is deemed as an effective means to help organize web content. While different knowledge organization systems are being employed to address the cluttered Web in different contexts and with various degrees of effectiveness, faceted ontologies have an enormous potential for addressing this issue by performing domain analysis for knowledge modeling and ultimately facilitating semantic information retrieval.