Rich Payne orients readers to the concepts of taxonomy through an analogy with food orders at a Waffle House. The example works - somewhat.
I'm not sure he made the point about eggs completely clear. Let's imagine the Waffle House needs to sales records and other information about the product line. It would see that different kinds of eggs are big business for them. To help people find the information about eggs, they might set up a "taxonomy" for eggs with sub-types of scrambled, fried, poached, boiled. This resembles a thesaurus, where the scrambled, boiled etc are the Narrow Terms.
Two basic rules are interesting:
- Users must understand the "product of taxonomy"
- Almost everything has a relationship or is part of a hierarchy
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