The Accidental Taxonomist

One of the challenges in creating hierarchical taxonomies is that there can be multiple ways to categorize concepts and thus design hierarch...

A number of years ago I worked on a project of cleaning up a large taxonomy on occupations and job titles. My client contact was sometimes c...

Taxonomies need to be custom-created for their purposes to be most effective. Basically, a taxonomy comprises the concepts or terms that ref...

The word “taxonomy” was coined in 1813 by the Swiss botanist A. P. de Candolle, who developed a new method of classifying plants. The word i...

ChatGPT, generative AI, and large language models (LLMs) are hot topics of interest in fields of data, information, and knowledge management...

I usually explain that a taxonomy is a structured kind of controlled vocabulary, which is list of terms (or concepts) usually used to tag co...