From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15734 invoked from network); 30 Dec 2003 00:34:35 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 30 Dec 2003 00:34:35 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Ab7qE-00011Y-Px for arch-gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 00:34:34 +0000 Received: (qmail 22871 invoked by uid 50004); 30 Dec 2003 00:13:34 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-portage-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 8527 invoked from network); 30 Dec 2003 00:13:33 +0000 From: Bart Lauwers To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 01:13:28 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org References: <200312271631.45947.blauwers@gentoo.org> <200312291855.50854.blauwers@gentoo.org> <20031229192218.GA3152@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20031229192218.GA3152@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312300113.28387.blauwers@gentoo.org> X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.3(snapshot 20030212) (october.skynet.be) Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-doc] Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] coveted features X-Archives-Salt: 786675c9-cb6f-4cd3-b6eb-8093ad21609c X-Archives-Hash: 8832129f0a9013b1a214bd3920d09515 On Monday 29 December 2003 20:22, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 06:55:50PM +0100, Bart Lauwers wrote: > > Anyway we've got lots of docs but were lacking a good taxonomy for them, > > do we have any librarians helping the docs team? (cc'ing doc to get a > > reply about this) > > Librarians? Not that I know off... What do you mean with taxonomy? What do I mean with taxonomy. The schema for orderly classification of documentation in a library. A library can be digital in fact our docs and our website ensemble is a library. Such a schema usually assigns relationships to documents based on natural or presumed relationships. A taxonomy is a tool to make information retrievable by humans without a search engine. In computer based libraries, taxonomies can combine different views or viewpoints without making things messy. Anyway I'm not a librarian but I can recommend some reading if you're interrested in buying a book on the topic of what is a taxonomy. I once worked with a bunch of librarians and I found myself needing to read this book on what my collegues were talking about. Anyway the book is on my office shelf but I can forward the title and author tomorrow if you like. According to Merriam-Webster.com it means: 1 : the study of the general principles of scientific classification : SYSTEMATICS 2 : CLASSIFICATION; especially : orderly classification of plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships Bart. -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list