RE: Nested facets

>  Faceted classification systems, like BC2, have both common 
>  subdivisions and facets. The main difference is that facets 
>  are limited to a specific discipline -- EG "habitat" is only 
>  a facet within zoology -- while common subdivisions can 
>  be applied across disciplines, as in the example above
>  with education and geography.

So we call it a "common subdivision" (Lib language) if it has more than
one "scope" (in Travis' language). If it has only one scope we call it a
"facet".

Right?
PeterV






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