Taxospace

From Memography

Both memespaces and taxospaces are examples of namespaces.

Within the context of a namespace, words and numbers have specific meanings. The namespace is said to disambiguate alternate meanings.

In Memography, a taxospace is always contained within a memespace. This means many different uses can be made of the same taxonomy, with the memespace identifier indicating which use.

A taxospace uses a unique alphanumeric identifier to disambiguate it from other taxospaces. The present design for meme IDs is to have three parts, the memespace identifier, a unique taxospace identifier for a taxonomy (including thesauri, ontologies, subject headings, controlled vocabularies, etc.), and finally a locally unique alphanumeric identifier for the given meme.

MEMESPACE-TAXOSPACE-ID

Taxospaces are related to the Uniform Resource Names (URNs) of the World Wide Web. URNs have not been widely used. Only a few dozen are been formally registered with IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. A URN used as a taxospace name will greatly increase the value of a URN.

Examples of registered URNs that are taxospace names are ISBN and ISSN.