# Duplicate \`taxonomy\` field in documentation?

**URL:** <https://forum.openreferral.org/t/duplicate-taxonomy-field-in-documentation/466>\
**Category:** Technical\
**Tags:** datastructure\
**Created:** [December 6, 2023, 12:38am UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/duplicate-taxonomy-field-in-documentation/466 "2023-12-06T00:38:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![skyleryoung](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openreferral.org/skyleryoung/32/212_2.png) [@skyleryoung](https://forum.openreferral.org/u/skyleryoung)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 12:38am UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/duplicate-taxonomy-field-in-documentation/466/1 "2023-12-06T00:38:28Z")

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In the latest docs for `taxonomy_term` I seen two fields that may be duplicates: `taxonomy` and `taxonomy_details`: [Schema Reference — Open Referral Data Specifications 3.0.1 documentation](http://docs.openreferral.org/en/latest/hsds/schema_reference.html#taxonomy-term)

The confusion arises, because their descriptions are _really_ similar.

Is this an error, or are there separate use cases for these fields?

I’m asking in part, because I’m translating some of this fields and I’m wondering if both of these would be candidates for translation.

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**Author:** ![skyleryoung](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openreferral.org/skyleryoung/32/212_2.png) [@skyleryoung](https://forum.openreferral.org/u/skyleryoung)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 12:53am UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/duplicate-taxonomy-field-in-documentation/466/2 "2023-12-07T00:53:43Z")

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Nudging @devin and @MikeThacker-iStandUK 🙂

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**Author:** ![devin](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openreferral.org/devin/32/16_2.png) [@devin](https://forum.openreferral.org/u/devin)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 1:31am UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/duplicate-taxonomy-field-in-documentation/466/3 "2023-12-07T01:31:30Z")

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Taxonomy is the name of the taxonomy (ex Open Eligibility) and taxonomy details is a description (ex “an open source taxonomy hosted at [xyz.com](http://xyz.com)”).

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**Author:** ![skyleryoung](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.openreferral.org/skyleryoung/32/212_2.png) [@skyleryoung](https://forum.openreferral.org/u/skyleryoung)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.openreferral.org/t/duplicate-taxonomy-field-in-documentation/466/4 "2023-12-13T16:36:00Z")

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Shouldn’t that be in the `taxonomy` table? I’ve wondered about denormalizing `taxonomy_term.taxonomy` away as well, since we’re linking to with `taxonomy_term.taxonomy_id` already.