What Is Taxonomy?
Though the concept of taxonomy may be new to you as it relates to managing information within a portal, the basic concept has been used widely for quite some time in a number of disciplines. Taxonomy provides a structure that serves to bring order to a particular area of knowledge.
In biology, arguably the king of taxonomies was devised by Carolus Linnaeus in 1858. He created a simplified system of classification of all living things (binomial nomenclature) that is still in use today. The classification begins with the most general groupings (kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae) to the most specific (species: rodentis, carnivora) (Figure 10.1).
Figure 10.1. Binomial Nomenclature Used to Classify Plants and Animals
This classification ...
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