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Building Portals, Intranets, and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers
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Building Portals, Intranets, and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers

by James J. Townsend, Dmitri Riz, Deon Schaffer
March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
11h 34m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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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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