Taxonomy vs Metadata - What's the difference?
taxonomy | metadata |
The science or the technique used to make a classification.
A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
(taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
Data that describes other data, serving as an informative label.
As nouns the difference between taxonomy and metadata
is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while metadata is data that describes other data, serving as an informative label.taxonomy
English
(wikipedia taxonomy)Noun
(taxonomies)Synonyms
* alpha taxonomyDerived terms
* folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomySee also
* classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontologymetadata
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(wikipedia metadata)Noun
(-)- Most websites contain metadata to tell the computer how to lay the words out on the screen.