TermCraft conventionFoundational
Taxonomy
The agreed set of categories things get filed under.
Definition
A controlled classification scheme defining categories and their relationships.
Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.
In plain language
The agreed set of categories things get filed under.
Example
A product catalogue's category tree, or the tag vocabulary used across a research repository.
Continue from here
Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.
Deeper reading
The full entry behind this definition.
- Card SortingResearch method
- Information ArchitectureResearch method
Nearby in the Atlas
Adjacent territory, found through shared tags rather than a stated link.