Taxonomy

Not to be confused with taxidermy.

Taxonomy may refer to:

• Taxonomy (general), the practice and science (study) of classification of things or concepts, as well as the principles that underlie such a classification
• Taxonomy (biology), a field of science that encompasses the description, identification, nomenclature, and classification of organisms
  • Biological classification, based on characteristics derived from shared descent from common ancestors
  • Alpha taxonomy, the description and basic classification of new species, subspecies, and other taxa
  • Linnaean taxonomy, Carl von Linne's original classification scheme
  • Evolutionary taxonomy, traditional post-Darwinian hierarchical biological classification
  • Phenetics, a system for ordering species based on mathematical similarities
  • Phylogenetics, based on characteristics derived from shared descent from common ancestors
• Chemical classification, the basal taxonomy of chemical compounds
• Folk taxonomy, the way people describe and organize their natural surroundings

In business and economics

• Corporate taxonomy, the hierarchical classification of entities of interest to an enterprise, organization or administration
• Economic taxonomy, a system of classification for economic activity
  • Global Industry Classification Standard
  • Industry Classification Benchmark
  • International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC)
  • North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
  • Pavitt's Taxonomy classifies firms by their principal sources of innovation
  • Russian Economic Activities Classification System (OKVED)
  • Standard Industrial Classification
  • United Kingdom Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities
  • XBRL Taxonomy, eXtensible Business Reporting Language
• SRK taxonomy in workplace user-interface design

In education

• Bloom's Taxonomy, a standardized categorization of learning objectives in an educational context
• Classification of Instructional Programs
• SOLO Taxonomy, Structure of Observed Learning Outcome, proposed by Biggs and Collis

Safety taxonomy

• Safety taxonomy, a standardized set of terminologies used within the fields of safety and health care
  • CREAM (Cognitive Reliability Error Analysis Method)
  • Human Factors Analysis and Classification System
  • Reason's Swiss Cheese Model

Other

• Military taxonomy, a set of terms that describe various types of military operations and equipment
• Nosology, classification of diseases

See also

• Taxon
• Philosophical language
• Classification (disambiguation)
• Categorization, the process of dividing things into groups