10 Advanced Taxonomy (Classification System)
Some of the material used in this chapter was first published in the Journal of Digital Asset Management volume 1, number 4 published by Henry Stewart Publications, London in July 2005 and is republished here with permission.
Taxonomy is the science of describing an object, in this case content or assets. In addition to describing the object, a taxonomy also places it into a relationship with other content and will group the content in logical collections or nodes of a hierarchy. A link to a website that defines the term taxonomy in more detail is: http://www.mywiseowl.com/articles/Taxonomy.
Taxonomy is not a new term, and library science is more than 2,000 years old. The current renaissance is due ...
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