Product Taxonomy

A Product Taxonomy is a taxonomy structure for market products (composed of product taxonomy nodes and product taxonomy edges).

• AKA: Product Classification.
• Context:
  • It can be represented by a Product Taxonomy Dataset.
  • It can be produced by a Product Taxonomy Creation Task.
  • It can be managed by a Product Taxonomy Management Task.
• Example(s):
  • Google Product Taxonomy [1]
  • Amazon's Product Taxonomy [2]
  • IceCat Product Taxonomy [3]
  • CPC - Central Product Classification [4]
  • HS — Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System [5]
  • CPA — Classification of Products by Activity [6]
  • SITC — Standard International Trade Classification [7]
  • Global Classification and Harmonized Schedule Numbers for customs classification.
  • UNSPSC, the United Nations Standard Products and Services Code [8]
  • NexTag Product Taxonomy [9]
  • Shopzilla Product Taxonomy [10]
  • Shopping.com Product Taxonomy [11]
  • Pricegrabber Product Taxonomy [12]
  • Become Product Taxonomy [13]
  • Smarter Product Taxonomy [14]
  • Pronto Product Taxonomy [15]
  • SortpriceProduct Taxonomy [16]
• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Industry Classification.
  • a Gene Product Taxonomy.
• See: Product Ontology, Product Taxonomy Mapping.

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References

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/product_classification Retrieved:2014-7-25.
  • Product classification or product taxonomy organizes products for a variety of purposes.

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