The classification, or categorization, of things. For example, a Web taxonomy would classify all the sites on the Web into a hierarchy for searching purposes. This comes from the Greek words "taxis" and "nomos," which mean "division" and "law."
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- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Washington Times amongst newspapers putting semantic technologies to work with help from Inform Technologies
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- Blog posts 2008-10-03
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- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
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- Software downloads 2008-09-19
- Wordcamp 2008
- In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-16
- Google goes investing
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- Blog posts 2008-07-31
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- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Free Taxonomy & Folksonomy Book
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- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Comprehensive Analysis of Web Privacy and Anonymous Web Browsers: Are Next Generation Services Based on Collaborative Filtering?
- In general, networking privacy enhancing technologies are better on larger user bases - such criteria that can be enhanced by combining them with community based services. This paper presents main web privacy issues and today's complex preventive solutions, anonymous web browsers, in several aspects including a comprehensive taxonomy as a...
- White papers 2008-06-24
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- White papers 2008-06-17
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- White papers 2008-06-01
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- Blog posts 2008-02-15
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- Discussion threads 2008-01-08
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- White papers 2008-01-01
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- Software downloads 2007-12-14
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- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Microsoft's Windows Live finally starting to come into its own
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- Blog posts 2007-11-06
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- Blog posts 2007-10-31
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- Blog posts 2007-10-11
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- Blog posts 2007-10-11
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