# Taxonomy Projects at AI Tinkerers

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Taxonomy is the hierarchical structure and controlled vocabulary used to classify, organize, and retrieve information assets (data, content, products) within a specific domain.

Taxonomy provides the critical framework for data organization: it's a formal, hierarchical system of classes and relationships (like parent-child) that standardizes content classification. This technology is essential for managing massive data sets, improving data quality, and driving machine learning models. For instance, the IAB Taxonomy uses 700+ categories for digital content, while NASA's Technology Taxonomy organizes 17 distinct technology areas for mission planning. Implementing a robust taxonomy ensures consistent tagging and dramatically improves information discoverability across platforms, making data actionable.

- Official technology site: https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-technology-taxonomy/
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [The next step in RAG](https://amsterdam.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_04QVj62I274)

We have built a proprietary retrieval and embedding model, Oasis. Oasis creates an automatic taxonomy from your dataset and uses this taxonomy to create interpretable vector embeddings. In doing so, you have a RAG system that does not need a lot of prompting and almost no fine-tuning, that is fully interpretable, and leaves an audit trail. We believe this solves a lot of issues with getting RAG beyond 80% demos and into full enterprise applications, but we're curious if you see this too. Kaspar and Bekk will show you the playground and our API!

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Summer Social — 2025-08-27 — Amsterdam
- Public talk page: https://amsterdam.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_04QVj62I274

## Related Technologies

- [Oasis](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/oasis) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/oasis.md)) — 1 public demo
- [Oasis API](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/oasis-api) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/oasis-api.md)) — 1 public demo
- [RAG](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/rag) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/rag.md)) — 147 public demos
- [Vector embeddings](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/vector-embeddings) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/vector-embeddings.md)) — 4 public demos