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On Monday 29 December 2003 20:22, Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 06:55:50PM +0100, Bart Lauwers wrote: |
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> > Anyway we've got lots of docs but were lacking a good taxonomy for them, |
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> > do we have any librarians helping the docs team? (cc'ing doc to get a |
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> > reply about this) |
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> Librarians? Not that I know off... What do you mean with taxonomy? |
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What do I mean with taxonomy. The schema for orderly classification of |
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documentation in a library. A library can be digital in fact our docs and our |
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website ensemble is a library. Such a schema usually assigns relationships to |
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documents based on natural or presumed relationships. A taxonomy is a tool to |
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make information retrievable by humans without a search engine. In computer |
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based libraries, taxonomies can combine different views or viewpoints without |
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making things messy. |
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Anyway I'm not a librarian but I can recommend some reading if you're |
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interrested in buying a book on the topic of what is a taxonomy. I once |
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worked with a bunch of librarians and I found myself needing to read this |
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book on what my collegues were talking about. Anyway the book is on my office |
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shelf but I can forward the title and author tomorrow if you like. |
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According to Merriam-Webster.com it means: |
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1 : the study of the general principles of scientific classification : |
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SYSTEMATICS |
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2 : CLASSIFICATION; especially : orderly classification of plants and animals |
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according to their presumed natural relationships |
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Bart. |
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