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 last namesurname Also called a surname. In Western tradition, the family name used with a first name to identify a person (for example, Meier in Richard Meier). 2011-08-16 23:06:52