Panorama teórico-analítico-sintético sobre a adoção de facetas no contexto da organização do conhecimento

Presents an overview of the use of facets in the organization of information, between physical and digital environments. Is based on the context of the organization of knowledge, which is regarded as the most important framework in the theory of information organization, and is emphasized in Ranganathan's theory of faceted classification (1892-1972). Addresses three basic points of discussion about ranganathan theory: the five fundamental categories, personality-matter-energy-space-time; systematic multidimensionality; and the canons of ranks and class chains. Is characterized as an exploratory research, to identify environments that use facets, and bibliographical. The results are that most of the factional models are applied in digital environments, which are purely academic-professional models, that the documentary (physical) systems were the most adopted application supports, that models were identified in the period from 1933 to 2017 and that the fundamental category [Personality] was the most cited. Was concluded that the presence of facets in systems of knowledge organization promulgate that the same product have different interpretations in the same taxonomy, formalizes the multidimensionality idealized in Ranganathan's theory of the faceted classification, but without being followed in full in some cases, adopts custom mnemonics and shows that the environments where they are adopted vary from physical to digital, from physical libraries to digital repositories