“The structural tools developed by the profession – hierarchical classifications, facets, thesaural relations, topic maps, the predicates used in ontology – will still be of use, provided that they can in each case pass a test of utility.”

—  Brian Campbell Vickery

Source: Meeting the challenge (2009), p. xxvii.

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