taxonavigation

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English

Etymology

From taxo- +‎ navigation. Coined on Wikispecies, which was launched in 2004.

Pronunciation

Noun

taxonavigation (uncountable)

  1. (taxonomy) The navigation of a directory of species or other taxonomic entities.
    • 2012, Liat Margolis, “Encoding Digital and Analogue Taxonavigation”, in Thomas Schröpfer, editor, Material Design: Informing Architecture by Materiality, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 148:
      Taxonavigation in design and architecture, much like the contemporary preoccupation with tagging, labeling, blogging, and wikiing has become integral to praxis and pedagogy.
    • 2014, S Arroyo, K Siorpaes, “ONTOLOGIES AND ONTOLOGY LANGUAGES”, in Handbook of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, World Scientific, page 145:
      A good example for a taxonomy is the Wikispecies project, which aims at creating a directory of species. In the “Taxonavigation” the path in the taxonomy leading to the species is depicted.
    • 2019 September, G. Panduranga Murthy, Rajesh Kumar, “Optimized production of biodiesel by fresh water algae oils derived from Chlorella wild stuff and performance characteristics of engine system by employing integration of chemical sciences and engineering technologies”, in NISCAIR-CSIR, India:
      Taxonavigation of microalgae
      Chlorella vulgaris belongs to Chlorophyta (green algae) [] they were subjected to classification by dividing under main taxonomic groups based on their pigmentation.