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    The main ones are:
    The main ones are:
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    * [[#Nice Classification|Nice Classification]]
    # [[#Nice Classification|Nice Classification]]
    ** [[#EURONICE|EURONICE]]
    ## [[#EURONICE|EURONICE]]
    * [[#UNSPSC|UNSPSC]]
    # [[#UNSPSC|UNSPSC]]
    # [[#Global Product Classification|Global Product Classification]]
     
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    == UNSPSC ==
    == UNSPSC ==
    {{Q|The '''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|UNSPSC}}
    {{Q|The '''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|UNSPSC}}
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    == Global Product Classification ==
    '''[http://www.ean-ucc.org/global_smp/Global_Product_Classification.html Global Product Classification]''' is product classification system developed by [[EAN.UCC]] in partnership with ACNielsen and 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>
    [[Category:Standards]] [[Category:Coding schemes]] [[Category:Product classification schemes]]

    Revision as of 08:51, 10 September 2016

    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.

    The main ones are:

    1. Nice Classification
      1. EURONICE
    2. UNSPSC
    3. Global Product Classification

    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.

    Nice Classification

    Work on the Nice Classification was initiated in 1957, in w:Nice, France, hence the name.

    Currently it is managed by WIPO.

    NCL appears to be the abbreviation in industry parlance.

    EURONICE

    EURONICE was a 10+ language Nice compliant database by the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM). In 2016 OHIM was named to 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.”

    ~ Wikipedia on UNSPSC

    Global Product Classification

    Global Product Classification is product classification system developed by EAN.UCC in partnership with ACNielsen and Global Commerce Initiative. Initial version was published in 2003. Global Product Classification Task Group]] GPCTG is in charge of development of this classification scheme.

    1. This product classification is available for browsing for free as PDF documents.
    2. Excel and XML formats are available for a fee
    3. 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: A Google search for "Global Product Classification" gives only 349 hits on 12:20, 17 May 2005 (GMT)