The Complete Idiot's Guide to Knowledge Management by Melissie Clemmons Rumizen

Author:Melissie Clemmons Rumizen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DK Publishing
Published: 1999-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Managing Content with Taxonomies and Search Engines

One important key for organizing and finding information is a taxonomy, a hierarchical structure for a body of knowledge. This structure gives a framework for understanding how that knowledge is grouped and how the groups relate to each other. From your school days you may remember that the purpose of a taxonomy in biology is to organize the vast number of known plants and animals into related categories that could be named, remembered, and discussed. The taxonomy provides a methodology for classifying a particular plant or animal to show its place in the overall scheme.

To show you an example of how a taxonomy in the animal hierarchical structure works, we’ll go back to that odd animal, the duck-billed platypus. We’ll start at the top of the taxonomy and go to the bottom. As we work through hierarchy down to the platypus, you’ll see how it relates to other animals.

▶ Kingdom. The platypus belongs to the animal kingdom. Other kingdoms are Monera, fungi, plant, and Protista.

▶ Phylum. The platypus is part of chordata, animals with a notochord. A notochord is a rod that extends most of the length of the body when it is fully developed.

▶ Subphylum. The platypus is one of the vertebrata, animals with a backbone.

▶ Class. Despite its oddities, a platypus is a mammal, a group of animals that have hair and four-chambered hearts, are warm-blooded, and bear living young.

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