typologysuch
Typologysuch, or typology search, is a methodological approach for identifying and retrieving items that fit defined typologies within a data collection. The term combines typology, the study or classification of types, with search, the act of locating items that match a given set of criteria. It is used across disciplines to organize information, artifacts, or phenomena by type and to test theoretical typologies against observed data.
Purpose and scope: It aims to reveal typological patterns, support comparisons, and create navigable classifications. In
Process: Key steps include specifying typologies and coding rules, assembling data, extracting features, and applying classification
Techniques and tools: When typologies are predefined, supervised learning and rule-based classification can assign items. Unsupervised
Applications: Archaeology, linguistics, anthropology, art history, information management, and digital humanities use typologysuch to organize collections,
Challenges: The subjectivity in typology definitions, overlapping categories, data quality issues, and the risk of overfitting
See also: Typology, clustering, classification, information retrieval, metadata.