Design tool · 2019
Taxonomy
Taxonomic Data Management for Grasshopper
What is Taxonomy?#
Data taxonomy classifies information into hierarchical groups to create structure, standardise terminology, and make datasets easier to manage within an organisation. A taxonomy chart visualises this hierarchy with nodes and links, typically showing an observation name and its available attributes.
Taxonomy charts are closely related to several data-structure representations, including:
- data ontologies,
- data hierarchies,
- metadata,
- data classifications, and
- data dictionaries
Tree Data Structure#
A tree is a recursive collection of nodes. Each node contains a value and references to other nodes. The first node is the root; referenced nodes are its children. References are not duplicated, and none points back to the root.
Taxonomy#
Taxonomy is a Grasshopper plug-in for organising and managing taxonomic data structures.