taxonomy
A way to arrange things into named groups so they are easier to find or understand.
A system for naming, grouping, and organizing things, ideas, or information into categories, often in a hierarchy.
The science of giving living things names and putting them into groups.
The branch of biology concerned with identifying, naming, and classifying organisms, and with the classification systems it produces.
The work of choosing categories and sorting things into them.
The practice or discipline of deciding what categories should exist and how items should be assigned to them.
- Base: taxonomy
- Plural: taxonomies, taxonomy
bloom's taxonomy
1framework for learning objectives
A system teachers use to describe different levels of thinking and learning.
- The instructor used Bloom's taxonomy to write exam questions that tested more than memorization.
- According to Bloom's taxonomy, creating a new design is a higher-level task than remembering a definition.
- The training team mapped each activity to a level in Bloom's taxonomy.
- Bloom's taxonomy helps teachers plan lessons.
- The task belongs to the applying level of Bloom's taxonomy.
content taxonomy
1categories for digital content
A category system that helps organize articles, pages, or other online content.
- The news site revised its content taxonomy to make older stories easier to find.
- A clear content taxonomy improves search and tagging.
- The content team created a taxonomy for articles, videos, podcasts, and reports.
- The website needs a content taxonomy.
- A content taxonomy helps users find pages quickly.
data taxonomy
1classification system for data
A system for grouping data so people can manage and find it more easily.
- The bank built a data taxonomy to standardize customer information across departments.
- A good data taxonomy can reduce confusion about which fields mean the same thing.
- The new privacy policy required a clearer data taxonomy.
- The company uses a data taxonomy.
- This data taxonomy shows where each record belongs.
enterprise taxonomy
1organization-wide classification system
A shared category system used across a whole company or organization.
- The company introduced an enterprise taxonomy so every department would use the same terms for products and customers.
- Building an enterprise taxonomy can be difficult when teams already have their own naming systems.
- The new document platform relies on the enterprise taxonomy for search and access control.
- The company uses one enterprise taxonomy.
- An enterprise taxonomy helps teams use the same names.
folk taxonomy
1informal cultural classifications
A traditional or everyday way that people group things, which may differ from scientific categories.
- Local fishers used a folk taxonomy that grouped fish by behavior and habitat.
- A folk taxonomy may group whales with fish because both live in water.
- The researchers compared scientific plant names with the village's folk taxonomy.
- A folk taxonomy can be different from science.
- The community has a folk taxonomy for local plants.
linnaean taxonomy
1traditional biological classification system
The older scientific system that groups living things into ranked categories such as genus and species.
- Linnaean taxonomy gave scientists a shared way to name and classify organisms.
- In Linnaean taxonomy, the genus name comes before the species name.
- Modern evolutionary biology has changed some groupings inherited from Linnaean taxonomy.
- Linnaean taxonomy uses names like genus and species.
- Students learned the ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
product taxonomy
1hierarchy of product categories
A category system for organizing products, especially in online shopping.
- The retailer updated its product taxonomy so customers could filter shoes by style and activity.
- A poor product taxonomy can hide popular items in the wrong category.
- The marketplace requires sellers to choose the correct product taxonomy before listing an item.
- The store has a product taxonomy for clothes.
- A product taxonomy helps shoppers find items.