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  • noun Plural form of taxonomy.

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  • They have media search keyword taxonomies already in place; most have even undergone regulatory scrutiny in some form.

    Forbes.com: News Howard Sklar 2011

  • By far the most common and effective method of finding information is browsing structured classification systems, so called taxonomies, by different navigations.

    ASP.NET Forums fd2000 2008

  • He hoped to mention "hashtag taxonomies" on TV, but did not get the chance.

    Liberal Democrat Voice 2008

  • (and I realize postmodernists might cut me off right there) was to intentionally devise a taxonomy that would confound all typical taxonomies, that is paradoxical, and deliciously so.

    Borges: Pathways of the (Postmodern) Mind Heather McDougal 2009

  • Knowledge organization systems, such as taxonomies, thesauri or subject heading lists, play a fundamental role in information structuring and access.

    Archive 2007-05-20 David Bigwood 2007

  • Knowledge organization systems, such as taxonomies, thesauri or subject heading lists, play a fundamental role in information structuring and access.

    Request for Comments: SKOS Use Cases and Requirements: Working Draft David Bigwood 2007

  • First each country had to get the metadata, such as taxonomies, right for its documentation.

    Comments from all Computer Weekly blogs 2010

  • Interesting discussion of how to make build web-based scientific taxonomies.

    The Environmental eScience Revolution | Serendipity 2009

  • Interesting discussion of how to make build web-based scientific taxonomies.

    2009 June 24 | Serendipity 2009

  • Often we tend to lump them together simply as Art Nouveau and Art Deco, though their individual taxonomies are a bit more complex -- consider the Barcelona modernismo of Gaudi and Jujol, the various national romanticisms, or the intriguing and often unclassifiable experiments in modernized traditional liturgical design that occurred in interwar France.

    The Other Modern: An Introduction 2009

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