Everything Goes Every Place It Fits
The traditional taxonomy is monohierarchical – there is one and only one place for every term. This is only sensible for many purposes; no […]
Expressing Culture in Coffee Classification
It is always interesting to me when I find taxonomies of interesting and unusual topics. Even if they aren’t true taxonomies, they are typically […]
The Thesaurus as a Domain Model in the Modern World
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Nowadays, taxonomies and thesauri are used largely for web navigation and for information search and retrieval. It wasn’t always that way. In fact, […]
Taxonomy of Tradition
You already know my interest in finding obscure and odd taxonomies. Remember the hipster taxonomy or the taxonomy of psychopaths? My latest find has […]
ICD-10 and Taxonomies
In Canada, the implementation of ICD-10 caused an approximate 50% drop in productivity in rates of coding in the health profession. Reports show that […]
Geeks Rule
Anyone remotely related to the world of information technology has heard it. The term, the label, the veiled and sometimes not so veiled insult. […]
Father of Library Science
Father’s Day is coming up soon, so we thought we’d pay homage to Shiyali Ramamrita (S. R.) Ranganathan. As described in the Wikipedia article […]
Down the Rabbit Hole
As many readers know, the main U.S. standard for taxonomies, thesauri, and other controlled vocabularies is ANSI/NISO Z39.19, Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and […]
Those Voices in Your Head
This interesting taxonomy caught my eye partly because it was different and partly because I was relieved other people had voices in their head […]
Standing up to Standards
Classification takes on many different styles and approaches. For instance, these videos are a good example of sunspot classification brought to life in visual […]