kategorist
Kategorist is a term used to describe a person who practices categorization—the systematic division of items into categories or taxonomies. The word is used in contexts where organizing knowledge or objects is a primary activity, such as information science, library science, data governance, and cognitive science. A categorist may work on developing taxonomies, ontologies, or classification schemes that help structure knowledge, products, or data.
Typical tasks include analyzing collections or datasets, identifying common attributes, defining category criteria, designing hierarchical or
In practice, categorists operate in a variety of settings: libraries and archives; museums and cultural heritage
In philosophy, the term is sometimes used loosely to refer to theorists who study categories as a