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References

1

Carl Linnaeus was known as the father of taxonomy. See

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/linnaeus.html.

2

For more on specific modeling versus generalized modeling see

Chapter 1 of this book.

3

Taken from Dictionary.com at http://dictionary.reference.com

/browse/type

.

4

Taken from Dictionary.com at http://dictionary.reference.com

/browse/category

.

5

Definition taken from the web site of The Natural History Museum in

London, England, at

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/science-

of-natural-history/taxonomy-systematics/what-is-taxonomy

/what-is-taxonomy.html

.

6

See Michael Barnwell’s article ‘‘What Is Taxonomy: Organizing Con-

tent for Better Site Performance (June 2005). Available at the Avenue

A/Razorfish web site at

http://www.avenuea-razorfish.com

/articles/TaxonomyInsight

Barnwell.pdf.

7

This characteristic may be referred to as morphism. Morphism describes

the mapping between a domain and a codomain, which is very similar to

describing a category mapped to another category. See

http://planetmath.org/?op=getobj&from=objects&id=8114.

8

For more on WORK EFFORT(s), see The Data Model Resource Book, Revised

Edition, Volume 1, A Library of Universal Data Models for All Enterprises,by

L. Silverston (Wiley, 2001).

9

For more on recursive relationships, refer to Chapter 4 of this book.

10

See Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning ...