I am convinced that absolutely no hierarchical taxonomy actually works in practice because every categorisation is really slightly fuzzy. Even libraries have problems categorising books into genres because some of them overlap considerably. I spent the last 25 years trying to build up useless hierarchies everywhere and none of them ever worked properly.
Tagging/labelling with attributes is the only viable solution that I've found.
This book is fiction/science-fiction/fantasy.
This document is technical-reference/specification/ratified
I believe this was the notion of the now defunct WinFS built on top of a database engine.
Tagging/labelling with attributes is the only viable solution that I've found.
This book is fiction/science-fiction/fantasy.
This document is technical-reference/specification/ratified
I believe this was the notion of the now defunct WinFS built on top of a database engine.