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...

In the past (such as my 2021 blog post " Attributes in Taxonomies "), I have explained that “attributes” serve as filters to refin...

I have argued before that a taxonomy is not the same as a classification system, despite the original meaning of the word taxonomy as a syst...

When I had done consulting for ecommerce taxonomy clients years ago, and they would refer to the taxonomy facets for products as “attributes...