Editing Product and service classifications

'''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.

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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 Group]]s.

== Current classifications ==
=== 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]]'''. 

'''[http://www.wipo.int/classifications/nice/en/ Access the Nice database at wipo.int]'''

NCL appears to be the abbreviation in industry parlance.

''' Read more in Wikipedia '''
* [[w:International (Nice) Classification of Goods and Services]]

=== UNSPSC ===

{{Q|The '''[[w:United Nations Standard Products and Services Code|United Nations Standard Products and Services Code]]''' ('''UNSPSC''') is a [[w:Taxonomy (general)|taxonomy]] of products and services for use in [[w:eCommerce|eCommerce]].  It is a four-level hierarchy coded as an eight-digit number, with an optional fifth level adding two more digits.|Wikipedia|What is the UNSPSC?}}

{{Q|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.|Wikipedia|How is the [[w:UNSPSC|UNSPSC]] structured?}}

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)

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== Product classification schemes that cannot be found anymore ==
=== 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 to '''[[European Union Intellectual Property Office|EUIPO]]'''.

Surely the database didn't go to /dev/null.


=== Global Product Classification ===
'''[http://www.ean-ucc.org/global_smp/Global_Product_Classification.html Global Product Classification]''' was a product classification system developed by EAN.UCC in partnership with [[w:Nielsen Corporation|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 [[w:PDF|PDF]] documents.
#[[w:Excel|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.

<small>'''<font color="red">Historical note:</font> A Google search for "Global Product Classification" gives only 349 hits''' on 12:20, 17 May 2005 (GMT)</small>

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