The Accidental Taxonomist

Since “taxonomies” are rather loosely defined, standards specifically for taxonomies do not exist, but there are standards that are rel...

Recently I was asked what I added to the newly published 2nd edition of my book, The Accidental Taxonomist . The additions and changes are s...

I have long considered a taxonomy as a particular, structured kind of controlled vocabulary. More recently, however, I have been hearing of ...

The current specialties of taxonomy management and terminology management have different histories and serve different purposes, but they ar...

A book that I have been reading ( Structures for Organizing Knowledge: Exploring Taxonomies, Ontologies, and Other Schemas , by June Abbas...

  I’ve written book reviews before, but recently a journal asked me to review a standard. It was ISO 25964-1 Thesauri and interoperabi...