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 middle name In Western tradition, any name for a person placed before the last name (surname) but after the first name (for example, Alan in Richard Alan Meier). 2011-08-16 23:06:52