Taxonomy

Taxonomy delivers GPS coordinates in the infospace. Content nobody can locate is content nobody finds. Taxonomy defines the locations on the map the business holds firmly in its hand. Taxonomy is the language for infospace orienteering instruments The .taxonomy file connects the abstract taxonomy to actual content. It declares a taxonomy location using the DBJ Core Taxonomy vocabulary. Not only for code — repositories of documents, images, specifications, any kind of content. ...

Someone described DBJ Taxonomy this way: “a taxonomy that maps to Zachman-style layers (Strategic/Conceptual → Logical → Physical → Implementations).” Sounds credible. Sadly, it isn’t true. That image is the simplified four-layer version quoted in the claim. It’s not what Zachman actually defined — his framework is a 5×6 matrix (Scope/Business/System/Technology/Component crossed with What/How/Where/Who/When/Why), not a single top-to-bottom stack. The linear “Strategic → Logical → Physical → Implementations” progression is a loose paraphrase, which is also why the mapping claim doesn’t hold up. ...