An attempt to list some of the taxonomies, controlled vocabularies and standard classification systems that are used in various different fields.
If you're looking for a way to categorise your information, you may find inspiration here.
- Books (Dewey, etc)
- NOTE: There are a lot better book systems than Dewey! See /r/Cataloging for where librarians hang out.
- Websites (Yahoo! hierarchy, etc.
- What happened to that? Is there an archive? Is there anything more current? TODO)
- Biology
- Occupation: (ISCO)
- Skin colour (Fitzpatrick scale)
- Sound Effects: universalcategorysystem.com
- Movies: IMDB
- Food (?)
- Software (? TODO)
https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/research-assistance/subject/business/sic
- classification.codes - sells mappings between systems
- Yahoo! Cataloging the Web (1996) (mirror)
- Yahoo Visual Timeline (1996-2006)
- Yahoo! The changing face of a portal to the world (1996-2016)
- Yahoo is killing off Yahoo after 20 years of hierarchical organization (2014)
- The death of hierarchy
- thesaurus
- taxonomy
- controlled vocabulary
- standard classification