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Revision as of 19:31, 22 September 2020
Product and service classifications are hierarchical structures to find a class for a product or service or to find the products in a class with certain data properties.
Product classifications have various uses:
- Finding unique trade marks within a product class in order to avoid conflicts in the future from same business or product name within the same class so that there is risk of confusion by consumer or procurer.
- Finding products matching consumer given criteria
In Consumerium parlance basically what Lowest Troll used to call Product Groups.
Open Food Facts taxonomy
Open Food Facts has a taxonomy for food products. What about Open Beauty Facts and Open Product Facts?
Nice Classification
Work on the Nice Classification was initiated in 1957, in w:Nice, France, hence the name.
Today it is maintained and developed by the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Access the Nice database at wipo.int
NCL appears to be the abbreviation in industry parlance.
Read more in Wikipedia
EURONICE
EURONICE was a 13+ language Nice compliant database by the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM). In 2016 OHIM was named it isto EUIPO.
Surely the database didn't go to /dev/null.
UNSPSC
“The United Nations Standard Products and Services Code (UNSPSC) is a taxonomy of products and services for use in eCommerce. It is a four-level hierarchy coded as an eight-digit number, with an optional fifth level adding two more digits.”
“The four primary levels of the code are: Segment, Family, Class and Commodity. Each level is coded in two decimal digits, with '00' treated specially to give segments, families and classes their own eight-digit codes.”
The UNSPSC has a theoretical address space of slightly under 100 million unique "commodity" ids as follows:
- Segment: 99 possiblities
- Family 99*99 possiblilities (9,801)
- Class 99^3 possibilities (970,299)
- Commodity 99^4 possibilities (96,059,601)
- Class 99^3 possibilities (970,299)
- Family 99*99 possiblilities (9,801)
Global Product Classification
Global Product Classification was a product classification system developed by EAN.UCC in partnership with w:ACNielsen and w:Global Commerce Initiative. Initial version was published in 2003. Global Product Classification Task Group]] GPCTG is in charge of development of this classification scheme.
- This product classification is available for browsing for free as PDF documents.
- Excel and XML formats are available for a fee
- Third parties can offer access to the GPC in PDF format. Other format (apparently including Wiki are restricted and defined in the third party licensee's agreement.
- Historical note from September 2020: A Google search for "Global Product Classification" gives 24,100 hits on 20:20, 22 Sep 2020
- Historical note from May 2005: A Google search for "Global Product Classification" gives only 349 hits on 12:20, 17 May 2005 (GMT)