tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-209231622011-04-21T21:53:53.680-07:00Or "Its the taxonomy, stupid", or "Read my lips, no new taxonomies"Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03105135835797699276noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20923162.post-32161340207054136272007-09-06T04:43:00.000-07:002007-09-06T04:43:53.379-07:00<a href="http://www.ideaeng.com/pub/entsrch/v2n6/article03.html">Enterprise Search: Parametric and Faceted Search and Taxonomies</a><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_classification">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_classification</a><br /><br />Faceted search is a good idea, and more realistic a way of classifying information.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20923162-3216134020705413627?l=taxonomic.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03105135835797699276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20923162.post-63169448236756240972007-06-15T08:13:00.000-07:002007-06-15T08:13:58.780-07:00<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/bowerm/archive/2007/06/15/taxonomy-in-a-digital-world-part-2.aspx">Mark Bower : Taxonomy in a Digital World Part 2</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20923162-6316944823675624097?l=taxonomic.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03105135835797699276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20923162.post-1145523033547910792006-04-20T01:50:00.000-07:002006-04-20T01:50:33.596-07:00<a href="http://mclibrary.nhmccd.edu/taxonomy/taxonomy.html">Taxonomy on the Web</a> So, why are both spiders and lobsters arthropods?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20923162-114552303354791079?l=taxonomic.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03105135835797699276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20923162.post-1140189880893227142006-02-17T07:24:00.000-08:002006-02-17T07:24:43.946-08:00<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy">Taxonomy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a><br /><br />It's a bit basic, but it's useful. Taxonomy is categorisation, but I think of it as a schema for all corporate data.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20923162-114018988089322714?l=taxonomic.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03105135835797699276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20923162.post-1139569006979515672006-02-10T02:53:00.000-08:002006-02-10T02:56:46.993-08:00http://anthro.palomar.edu/animal/animal_1.htm<br /><br />Here is a nice link showing how whne they started trying to classify all the animals on Earth, they assumed it had always been that way and always would be because er, god made everything. Then Darwin and Evolution showed how really complex it was. Genetics has helped simplify things again. <br /><br />The lesson here is, when planning the information structure for your organisation, realise you are not god, there can be no simple hierarchical structure. Rather, realise that the relationship between information is primarily the people who create it, and also that it will always, always change.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20923162-113956900697951567?l=taxonomic.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03105135835797699276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20923162.post-1137149189656224712006-01-13T02:37:00.000-08:002006-01-13T02:47:40.233-08:00The best place is the Wikipedia`s page on what taxonomy means in the general sense. Which is that it is the rules of classification, or the systems or theories of how to organise stuff. It comes form the greek words meaning classify and law. <br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy</a><br /><br />I intend this blog to be a repository for whatever I can collect on this subject. I think it is something I have always been interested in and even enjoy, and the fact that it is an important part of the work I do with SharePoint does not surprise me. <br /><br />I will have a lot more to say on this subject over time, but keep in mind that I think while the 19th century struggled to organise the plant and animal kingdoms, the 21st will struggle to organise all of the information it can access thanks to the internet. So on I go! I will start with a fictional ancient Chinese classification system for animals that goes to show taxonomy is just a wierd construct of the human mind in the end...<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolent_Recognition">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolent_Recognition</a><br /><br />Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Recognition is a parody of classification schemes or taxonomy, in the form of a fictitious Chinese encyclopedia created by Jorge Luis Borges in the essay "John Wilkins' Analytical Language" on language and epistemology 1. Animals are classified into the following categories:<br /><br />Those that belong to the Emperor <br />Embalmed ones <br />Those that are trained <br />Suckling pigs <br />Mermaids <br />Fabulous ones <br />Stray dogs <br />Those included in this classification <br />Those that tremble as if they were mad <br />Innumerable ones <br />Those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush <br />Others <br />Those that have just broken a flower vase <br />Those that resemble flies from a distance<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20923162-113714918965622471?l=taxonomic.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03105135835797699276noreply@blogger.com0