Taxonomy
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Taxonomy (general) is the practice and science of classification of things or concepts, including the principles that underlie such classification. Originally used only about biological classification, taxonomy has developed to be a synonym for classification (see Classification (general theory)).
Specific taxonomies include:
Natural sciences[edit | edit source]
- Taxonomy (biology), a branch of science that encompasses the description, identification, nomenclature, and classification of organisms
- Alpha taxonomy, the description and basic classification of new species, subspecies, and other taxa
- Linnaean taxonomy, the original classification scheme of Carl Linnaeus
- rank-based scientific classification as opposed to clade-based classification
- Evolutionary taxonomy, traditional post-Darwinian hierarchical biological classification
- Numerical taxonomy, various taxonomic methods employing numeric algorithms
- Phenetics, system for ordering species based on overall similarity
- Phylogenetics, biological taxonomy based on putative ancestral descent of organisms
- Plant taxonomy
- Virus classification, taxonomic system for viruses
- Alpha taxonomy, the description and basic classification of new species, subspecies, and other taxa
- Meteorology, science and relevant technology and engineering, concerning inhomogenous and/or problematic atmospheric conditions
- Folk taxonomy, description and organization, by individuals or groups, of their own environments
- Nosology, classification of diseases
- Soil classification, systematic categorization of soils
Computing[edit | edit source]
- Flynn's taxonomy, a classification for instruction-level parallelism methods
- Folksonomy, classification based on user's tags
- Taxonomy for search engines, considered as a tool to improve relevance of search within a vertical domain
Business and economics[edit | edit source]
- Corporate taxonomy, the hierarchical classification of entities of interest to an enterprise, organization or administration
- Economic taxonomy, a system of classification for economic activity
- Global Industry Classification Standard, an industry taxonomy developed by MSCI and Standard & Poor's (S&P)
- Industry Classification Benchmark, an industry classification taxonomy launched by Dow Jones and FTSE
- International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC), a United Nations system for classifying economic data
- North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), used in Canada, Mexico, and the United States of America
- Pavitt's Taxonomy, classification of firms by their principal sources of innovation
- Standard Industrial Classification, a system for classifying industries by a four-digit code
- United Kingdom Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities, a Standard Industrial Classification by type of economic activity
- Records management taxonomy, the representation of data, upon which the classification of unstructured content is based, within an organization.
- XBRL Taxonomy, eXtensible Business Reporting Language
- SRK taxonomy, in workplace user-interface design
Education and academia[edit | edit source]
- Bloom's taxonomy, a standardized categorization of learning objectives in an educational context
- Classification of Instructional Programs, a taxonomy of academic disciplines at institutions of higher education in the United States
- Mathematics Subject Classification, an alphanumerical classification scheme based on the coverage of Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt MATH
- SOLO taxonomy, Structure of Observed Learning Outcome, proposed by Biggs and Collis Tax
Safety[edit | edit source]
- Safety taxonomy, a standardized set of terminologies used within the fields of safety and health care
- Human Factors Analysis and Classification System, a system to identify the human causes of an accident
- Swiss cheese model, a model used in risk analysis and risk management propounded by Dante Orlandella and James T. Reason
- A taxonomy of rail incidents in Confidential Incident Reporting & Analysis System (CIRAS)
Other taxonomies[edit | edit source]
- ACM Computing Classification System, a subject classification system for computing devised by the Association for Computing Machinery
- Military taxonomy, a set of terms that describe various types of military operations and equipment
- Legal Taxonomy, a subject classification for law devised by Elizabeth Moys
See also[edit | edit source]
- Taxon, a population of organisms that a taxonomist adjudges to be a unit
- Philosophical language
- Classification (disambiguation)
- Classification (general theory)
- Categorization, the process of dividing things into groups
- Ontology (information science), formal representation of knowledge as a set of concepts within a domain
- All pages with titles beginning with Taxonomy
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