Glossary about Controlled Vocabularies tematres thesaurus, thesauri, information retrieval, controlled vocabularies, glossary, definitions, structured vocabularies, facets, faceted classification 1998-12-31 2011-12-13 10:39:06 en entity In the context of computer science, a self-contained piece of data that can be referenced as a unit. In a more general sense, the term is used in this book to refer to a distinct person, place, or concept in a vocabulary 2011-08-16 23:06:51