taxonomies
Hierarchical classification schemes
Taxonomies is the plural of taxonomy, a system for classifying things into ordered groups or categories.
The term appears most often in biology, where taxonomies organize living things into hierarchies—kingdom, phylum, class, and so on.
More broadly, any field may develop taxonomies: The library uses multiple taxonomies for cataloging.
The word implies systematic, hierarchical organization rather than simple lists.
Systematic grouping by traits
- speciesFinest taxonomic rank
- genusTaxonomic rank above species
- familyRelated people together
- orderMethodical arrangement or request
class · phylum · kingdom · domain · binomial · nomenclature · cladistics · phylogenetics
Ranked authority structure
- branchingSplitting into separate directions
- treeWoody perennial plant
- nodeConnection point in networks
- parentMother or father
child · nested · levels · root · leaf · structure · dichotomy · subdivision
Arranging into groups
- classificationSystematic grouping by traits
- taggingAttaching identifying markers
- labelingAssigning identifying markers
- indexingSystematic organization for retrieval
cataloging · metadata · ontology · schema · vocabulary · terminology · faceted · controlled
Storing documents systematically
- archivesStored historical documents
- recordsStored data or albums
- managementOrganizing and directing resources
- libraryBook collection or building
knowledge · content · information · documentation · inventory · database · systems · enterprise
classification
Systematic grouping by traits
order · class · phylum · kingdom · domain · binomial · nomenclature · cladistics · phylogenetics · systematics
hierarchy
Ranked authority structure
- branchingSplitting into separate directions
- treeWoody perennial plant
- nodeConnection point in networks
parent · child · nested · levels · root · leaf · structure · dichotomy · subdivision · tier
categorization
Arranging into groups
- classificationSystematic grouping by traits
- taggingAttaching identifying markers
- labelingAssigning identifying markers
indexing · cataloging · metadata · ontology · schema · vocabulary · terminology · faceted · controlled · thesaurus
filing
Storing documents systematically
- archivesStored historical documents
- recordsStored data or albums
- managementOrganizing and directing resources
library · knowledge · content · information · documentation · inventory · database · systems · enterprise · governance
- data organizationorganizing, cataloging, categorizing, sorting, grouping
- media organizationcataloging, tagging, indexing, labels, albums
- frameworksframework, frameworks, schema, schemas, schemata
- ontologiesontology, ontologies, classes, properties, individuals
- semantic networksnode, nodes, link, links, edge
- Semantic Webtriple, triples, ontologies, knowledge graph, semantic web
taxonomiesjumbles
Mixes into confusion
chaos · disorder · disorganization · randomness · hodgepodges