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