Comment by jeremycw

You're right, when I mentioned "taxonomy, abstraction and world-modeling" I meant as it pertains to code organization in the tradition OOP/OOD sense where it's generally about naming classes, creating inheritance hierarchies, etc. Data-oriented design is _absolutely_ concerned with the data schema. I would, however, disagree that the focus should be on "building the world" with your schema. To me this means creating the schema based off of some gut/fuzzy feeling you get when the names of things all end up being real world nouns. To me creating a good schema is less about world building than it is about having the exact data that you need, well normalized and in a format that works well with the algorithm you want to apply to it.