Taxonomy
Taxonomy (general) is the practice and science of classification of things or concepts, including the principles that underlie such classification.
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Specific taxonomies include:
Natural sciences
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Taxon, a population of organisms that a taxonomist adjudges to be a unit
- Philosophical language
- Classification (disambiguation)
- Categorization, the process of dividing things into groups
- Ontology (information science), formal representation of knowledge as a set of concepts within a domain
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