[LINK] Categories for a community directory

[Paul Bolger]

Thanks Roger, but I'm looking for something a bit more general here -
a set of categories which could cover the local dog catcher, dog
groomer, writer of dog psychology books
 etc
On 10 March 2012 12:48, Roger Clarke <Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au> wrote:
> At 12:10 +1300 10/3/12, Paul Bolger wrote:
>>I'm running a little community website in which we have a directory of
>>local organisations (http://sumnercommunity.org.nz). The current
>>categories for organisations/individuals were pinched off another
>>community website, and my guess is they either made them up or pinched
>>them off someone else. At the time we decided not to put too much time
>>into agonising about getting the categories right, but now there's a
>>move to try and rationalise them.
>>
>>Is anyone on this list aware of any sort of standard category list for
>>this type of data? Somewhere in the Dewey spec, or DC, or even an XML
>>schema?
>
> A search on <NGO Taxonomy> turns up quite a few items of interest,
> not least:
> http://www.ngohandbook.org/index.php?title=Classification_of_NGOs
>
> There are four general schemes used to classify Non Governmental
> Organizations. These include:
> *   United Nations International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC)
> *   General Industrial Classification of Economic Activities (NACE)
> *   National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE)
> *   International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations (ICNO)
> These are commonly referred to using their acronyms provided above.
> This article will attempt to provide a comprehensive review of these
> classification schemes.
>
> Requires (inexpensive) membership.
>
>
> [As a Director of several of NGOs and Chair of one, I should know
> more about this than I do  (:-(}  ]
>
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