Recycling Treasures
Once again my search for the odd and illusive taxonomies have resulted in a treasure. "Taxonomy of trash" was brought to us by Philly.com and it didn't fail to entertain and intrigue me.
Triumph Learning Partners with Access Innovations on Common Core Standards-Integrated Taxonomy
Triumph Learning LLC, a New York-based print and digital educational content company, has partnered with Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in taxonomy development, to create a new, state-of-the-art taxonomy designed to precisely align standards-based instructional content for all grades in the K– 12 education market.
Taxonomy Adds Value to Content
If you have been a reader for anytime at all, you know by now that I find taxonomies of alternate topics very intriguing, and I wasn't disappointed by this latest find.
Ranganathan, Classification, and British Toys
I’ve mentioned Ranganathan briefly in some earlier posts. Let’s look at his innovations and influence from a historical perspective.
Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (1892-1972) was an Indian mathematician and […]
WAND Within Launched
WAND has launched their WAND Within taxonomy partnership initiative and it comes with a roster of nine top search and information management vendors who each will be offering the WAND Taxonomies to customers as a part of its respective technology solution.
Theory of Knowledge: 18th Century Developments
Last time, we mentioned biological taxonomy. This leads us inevitably to Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), a Swedish zoologist and botanist. We regard him as the “father of modern taxonomy." Contrary to popular belief, Linnaeus did not invent the binomial nomenclature system, with organism types designated by genus and species. That honor belongs to the Bauhin brothers, Gaspar (1560-1624) and Johann (1541-1613). The two Swiss brothers formalized the then-existing method of (often vague and wordy) polynomial nomenclature, introducing a stricter, more logical system with one word for the genus and one for the species.
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Theory of Knowledge: Philosophic Beginnings
At their core, taxonomies and other classification systems are ways of organizing and managing knowledge. To understand the history of classification systems, it behooves us to explore the history of thinking about knowledge. So what is knowledge? The Greek philosopher Plato defined it as “justified true belief”. However, the twentieth-century writer Bertrand Russell commented that “at first sight it might be thought that knowledge might be defined as belief which is in agreement with the facts. The trouble is that no one knows what a belief is, no one knows what a fact is, and no one knows what sort of agreement between them would make a belief true.”