The word taxonomy is a word that comes from the Greek and is used to refer to that classification and ordering process that serves to organize different types of knowledge. In Greek, taxos means ordering, organization and nomos laws, rules. Thus, taxonomy is what various sciences and scientific branches use to classify their specific knowledge so that it remains organized and clear to be used or analyzed.
Taxonomy can be applied to any aspect or area of life, even outside of science. Although the idea of taxonomy is usually related mainly to natural sciences such as biology (from the classification of animal and plant species, etc.), reality shows us that one can carry out a taxonomic process from any type knowledge or data set that exist. For example, the collection of books that one can have can be classified by author or by name of work and in both ways a taxonomy process would be carried out.
One of the characteristics of the taxonomy is that it allows data to be grouped or classified into increasingly smaller or specific sets, in such a way that they can be accessed much easier and indicating their particular and specific features. This is clear when talking about animal species that descend from the same group, for example felines as they are progressively classified and labeled according to the differential traits between each of them. Thus, groups such as class, subclass, order, suborder, family or tribe are concepts common to biological sciences (for example) that serve to gradually locate existing living beings from largest to smallest. Then, with the classified and organized data, much more adequate and complete analyzes and observations can be carried out that allow to obtain better final results.
