Taxonomy Takes to the Air

October 18, 2011 / Melody Smith /

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the European Commission (EC) have agreed on the use of a single repository and common categorization taxonomy to report all aviation accidents and incidents worldwide in order to improve aviation safety.

We found this interesting information on Ghana Business News in their article, “International Civil Aviation Organization, European Commission sign pact to improve global aviation safety.” The European Coordination Centre for Accident and Incident Reporting Systems (ECCAIRS) was developed by the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) for collecting and analyzing aviation safety data as well as the sharing of safety information.

It is nice to see the use of a standardized taxonomy scheme on an international playing field.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

1 Comment

  1. Alice on October 18, 2011 at 10:23 pm

    “first-ever global system for reporting aviation accidents”–that’s impressive and a relief. I’m a little anxious, retrospectively, about the previous lack of a common standardized vocabulary. It was probably easier to adopt the euro than a common taxonomy!