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About Knowledge Bases (Master Catalog) is a Master Catalog knowledge base that contains samples of some file types supported by Taxonomer backgrounders on Taxonomer and related topics.

International Alphabet comprises three knowledge bases that illustrate the use of a Master Catalog and two Collections. The theme is a variation of the International Alphabet, with acknowledgements to Living in Indonesia.

The International Alphabet helps overcome the differences in pronunciation of individual letters in various languages, which are important sources of spelling or other errors in communication. Routinely used in aviation to convey the identities of individual airplanes (“November Charlie Three Eleven, you’re cleared for take-off”), international alphabets of various forms are widely used for everyday needs like spelling out one’s name over the telephone.

International Alphabet (Master Catalog) lists English words used to represent each letter of the alphabet. It's organized by alphabetic character, with one word per character except for L, M, Q, and Z, each of which contains one alternative word for use where the English pronunciation may creates ambiguities in other languages.

Each word is supported by a PDF document (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie…) which could be but isn’t an essay on the word, why it came to be chosen for service, and its limitations for multi-language usage, among many other things. Though PDF format is used for the demo the file type could be any supported by Taxonomer.

The two Collections, International Alphabet Analysis, Character Count and International Alphabet Analysis, Word Type respond to mythical information needs pertaining to the words themselves.

The analysis of the character counts—the length of the string—shows the 31 words distributed by word length.  The shortest is 3 characters; the longest, 8. In Taxonomer, these can be viewed as Rollup Counts

The analysis of the word types shows the 31 words analyzed by 15 classes of words. Geographic terms and persons’ first names tie for first place with five each.

Both of the Collections contain the PDF documents (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie…). Taxonomer uses the Master Catalog to keep the original—and only—version of each of the PDFs.

The documents that appear to reside in the Collections are links to—not copies of—the original PDF. If any PDF document is revised or deleted, Taxonomer automatically updates the Collections. If a PDF is reclassified in the Master Catalog, Taxonomer keeps track of it so it always appears in the place selected for it in any Collection in which it is referenced.

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Last modified: 02/26/07