Terminology Overload?

Abstract

The information industry is now full of professionals from many areas, and those who have been working in that area the longest: that is to say, librarians, documentalists and information scientists, must learn the language that these other professions use it they are to maintain their own professionalism and work effectively (as they must) with the relative newcomers. The belief in the statement above is exemplified in the new use of the word taxonomy, and several meanings of this word are discussed with reference to findings from a research study conducted by the author.

Keywords

• automatic indexing
• information overload
• taxonomy
• automatic classification