pyspy/taxonomy-works-annotated-bibliography

taxonomy.works — Annotated Bibliography of Taxonomy, Knowledge Organization & Philosophy of Classification

An open scholarly and practitioner reference dataset from taxonomy.works, documenting 81 canonical works (plus companion editions) with critical annotations across the four disciplines that independently developed the theory and practice of classification:

1. Stream I — Biological Systematics (systematics): Founding texts of cladistics, numerical taxonomy, and evolutionary systematics (Hennig, Hull, Mayr, Sokal & Sneath, Felsenstein), the species problem (Coyne & Orr, Wilkins, de Queiroz), and the International Codes of Nomenclature (ICZN, ICN Shenzhen, ICNP, PhyloCode).
2. Stream II — Information & Knowledge Organization (information): Faceted classification and the Classification Research Group (Ranganathan, Vickery, Broughton), thesaurus construction and international standards (Aitchison, Gilchrist & Bawden, ISO 25964, ANSI/NISO Z39.19, Svenonius, Soergel, Lancaster), SKOS & semantic ontologies (W3C SKOS, Arp, Smith & Spear — BFO, Allemang, Hendler & Gandon), and digital information architecture (Lambe, Hedden, Glushko).
3. Stream III — History & Philosophy of Classification (philosophy): Cognitive categorization (Lakoff, Rosch, Berlin), sociology and politics of classification infrastructure (Bowker & Star — Sorting Things Out, Foucault, Hacking, Borges), and the metaphysics of natural kinds (Kripke, Putnam, Dupré, Boyd, Khalidi, Magnus).
4. Stream IV — Polish School of Information-Retrieval Languages & Logical Division (polish): Original Polish-language scholarship on information-retrieval languages (Bożenna Bojar, Jadwiga Woźniak-Kasperek, Wiesław Babik, Eugeniusz Ścibor, Barbara Sosińska-Kalata, Olgierd Ungurian) and the Lvov-Warsaw tradition of logical division, typology, and natural kinds (Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz — Logika pragmatyczna, Tadeusz Pawłowski — Tworzenie pojęć w naukach humanistycznych, Joanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska).

• Bibliography (PL): https://taxonomy.works/pl/bibliografia/
• Bibliography (EN): https://taxonomy.works/en/bibliography/
• Taxonomy Design, Audit & Governance Practice: https://taxonomy.works/pl/uslugi/ · https://taxonomy.works/en/services/
• Homepage: https://taxonomy.works/pl/ · https://taxonomy.works/en/

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Package Contents (open-data/)

File	Records	Description
annotated-taxonomy-bibliography.json / .csv	81 works	Complete bibliography with id (I.1–IV.16), stream_slug, group_pl, authors, title, imprint, companion_works, has_polish_edition, is_open_access, critical_annotation_pl, and canonical links to taxonomy.works.
taxonomy-bibliography-streams.json / .csv	4 streams	Overview of the four intellectual streams (I–IV), thematic sub-groups, Polish edition counts, open-access counts, and canonical URLs.

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License & Citation (CC BY 4.0)

This dataset is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

When citing or reusing this bibliography in knowledge-organization curricula, RAG/ontology engineering documentation, or research papers, please attribute:

Source: Piotr Pytlarz, taxonomy.works — Annotated Bibliography of Taxonomy, Knowledge Organization, and Philosophy of Classification (https://taxonomy.works/en/bibliography/ | https://taxonomy.works/pl/bibliografia/), licensed under CC BY 4.0.

@dataset{taxonomy_works_bibliography_2026,
  title        = {taxonomy.works: Annotated Bibliography of Taxonomy, Knowledge Organization, and Philosophy of Classification},
  author       = {Pytlarz, Piotr},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  publisher    = {taxonomy.works},
  url          = {https://taxonomy.works/en/bibliography/},
  license      = {CC-BY-4.0}
}