The Promise and Pitfalls of Classifying Food
As a lover of all things tasty, my mind often turns to the kinds of food and drink that I love. As someone who works with taxonomies and thesauri, I tend to try to classify them. Often, though, I don’t get very far with it because I start to get hungry. However, I just ate, so I don’t think it’ll be so much of an issue this time.
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Anyone who has built a true, solid standards-based taxonomy knows you can go down that rabbit hole with ease never to be seen again. This isn’t to disparage taxonomies by any means, but a true taxonomy is complex and comprehensive.
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