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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, an industry taxonomy developed by MSCI and Standard & Poor's (S&P) Industry Classification Benchmark, an industry classification taxonomy launched by Dow Jones and FTSE International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC), a United Nations system for classifying economic data North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), used in Canada, Mexico, and the United States of America Pavitt's Taxonomy, classification of firms by their principal sources of innovation Standard Industrial Classification, a system for classifying industries by a four-digit code United Kingdom Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities, a Standard Industrial Classification by type of economic activity EU taxonomy for sustainable activities, a classification system established to clarify which investments are environmentally sustainable, in the context of the European Green Deal. Records management taxonomy, the representation of data, upon which the classification of unstructured content is based, within an organization. XBRL Taxonomy, eXtensible Business Reporting Language SRK taxonomy, in workplace user-interface design
=== Computing ===
==== Software engineering ==== Vegas et al. make a compelling case to advance the knowledge in the field of software engineering through the use of taxonomies. Similarly, Ore et al. provide a systematic methodology to approach taxonomy building in software engineering related topics. Several taxonomies have been proposed in software testing research to classify techniques, tools, concepts and artifacts. The following are some example taxonomies:
A taxonomy of model-based testing techniques A taxonomy of static-code analysis tools Engström et al. suggest and evaluate the use of a taxonomy to bridge the communication between researchers and practitioners engaged in the area of software testing. They have also developed a web-based tool to facilitate and encourage the use of the taxonomy. The tool and its source code are available for public use.
==== Other uses of taxonomy in computing ==== Flynn's taxonomy, a classification for instruction-level parallelism methods Folksonomy, classification based on user's tags Taxonomy for search engines, considered as a tool to improve relevance of search within a vertical domain ACM Computing Classification System, a subject classification system for computing devised by the Association for Computing Machinery
=== Education and academia === Uses of taxonomy in education and academia include:
Bloom's taxonomy, a standardized categorization of learning objectives in an educational context Classification of Instructional Programs, a taxonomy of academic disciplines at institutions of higher education in the United States Mathematics Subject Classification, an alphanumerical classification scheme based on the coverage of Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt MATH SOLO taxonomy, Structure of Observed Learning Outcome, proposed by Biggs and Collis Tax Contributor Roles Taxonomy, commonly known as CRediT, is a controlled vocabulary of types of contributions to scholarly research published in academic journals
=== Safety === Uses of taxonomy in safety include:
Safety taxonomy, a standardized set of terminologies used within the fields of safety and health care Human Factors Analysis and Classification System, a system to identify the human causes of an accident Swiss cheese model, a model used in risk analysis and risk management propounded by Dante Orlandella and James T. Reason A taxonomy of rail incidents in Confidential Incident Reporting & Analysis System (CIRAS)
=== Other taxonomies === A Taxonomy of Office Chairs, a scholarly work that applies detailed taxonomic hierarchies to a specific furniture typology. Military taxonomy, a set of terms that describe various types of military operations and equipment Moys Classification Scheme, a subject classification for law devised by Elizabeth Moys
=== Taxonomy for the web === Websites with a well designed taxonomy or hierarchy are easily understood by users, due to the possibility of users developing a mental model of the site structure. Guidelines for writing taxonomy for the web include:
Mutually exclusive categories can be beneficial. If categories appear in several places, it is called cross-listing or polyhierarchical. The hierarchy will lose its value if cross-listing appears too often. Cross-listing often appears when working with ambiguous categories that fits more than one place. Having a balance between breadth and depth in the taxonomy is beneficial. Too many options (breadth), will overload the users by giving them too many choices. At the same time having a too narrow structure, with more than two or three levels to click-through, will make users frustrated and might give up.
=== In communications theory === Frederick Suppe distinguished two senses of classification: a broad meaning, which he called "conceptual classification" and a narrow meaning, which he called "systematic classification". About conceptual classification Suppe wrote: "Classification is intrinsic to the use of language, hence to most if not all communication. Whenever we use nominative phrases we are classifying the designated subject as being importantly similar to other entities bearing the same designation; that is, we classify them together. Similarly the use of predicative phrases classifies actions or properties as being of a particular kind. We call this conceptual classification, since it refers to the classification involved in conceptualizing our experiences and surroundings" About systematic classification Suppe wrote: "A second, narrower sense of classification is the systematic classification involved in the design and utilization of taxonomic schemes such as the biological classification of animals and plants by genus and species.
== Is-a and has-a relationships, and hyponymy ==