Taxonomy

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Taxonomy may refer to:

Science

• 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 meaning either of:
    • the original classification scheme of Carl Linnæus
    • rank-based scientific classification as opposed to clade-based classification
  • Evolutionary taxonomy, traditional post-Darwinian hierarchical biological classification
  • Numerical taxonomy, a taxonomic method employing numeric algorithms
  • Phenetics, a system for ordering species based on overall similarities
  • Phylogenetics, based on characteristics derived from shared descent from common ancestors
• Chemical classification, the basal taxonomy of chemical compounds
• Flynn's taxonomy, a classification of instruction level parallelism methods

General

• Taxonomy (general), the practice and science of classification of things or concepts, including the principles that underlie such classification
• Folk taxonomy, the way people describe and organize their natural surroundings
• Folksonomy, classification based on user's tags
• Taxonomy for search engines as a tool to improve relevance of search in 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
• XBRL Taxonomy, eXtensible Business Reporting Language
• SRK taxonomy, in workplace user-interface design

Education

• 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
• SOLO Taxonomy, Structure of Observed Learning Outcome, proposed by Biggs and Collis

Safety

• Safety taxonomy, a standardized set of terminologies used within the fields of safety and health care
  • CREAM (Cognitive Reliability Error Analysis Method), a human reliability analysis technique
  • 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

Other

• ACM Computing Classification System, a subject classification system for computing devised by the Association for Computing Machinery
• Mathematics Subject Classification, an alphanumerical classification scheme based on the coverage of Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt MATH
• Military taxonomy, a set of terms that describe various types of military operations and equipment
• Nosology, classification of diseases

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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