[LINK] Categories for a community directory

[Roger Clarke]

At 15:55 +1300 10/3/12, Paul Bolger wrote:
>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

I think you might mean the opposite - that you want something a bit 
more *specific* or detailed, rather than a bit more general.


1.  UN International Standard Industrial Classification  (ISIC)

ANZSIC probably costs money to purchase, although I haven't actually 
checked that.  Whereas the underlying (over-arching?) UN ISIC is up 
there, gratis.

This gives some assistance in the way of general structure.  The 
classification scheme itself doesn't go to the level of detail you 
want, but some of the examples do.

Look at the nodes and leaves of O 91, 92 and 93, e.g.:

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/regcs.asp?Cl=17&Lg=1&Co=91
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/regcs.asp?Cl=17&Lg=1&Co=9199

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/regcs.asp?Cl=17&Lg=1&Co=92
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/regcs.asp?Cl=17&Lg=1&Co=923
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/regcs.asp?Cl=17&Lg=1&Co=924

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/regcs.asp?Cl=17&Lg=1&Co=93
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/regcs.asp?Cl=17&Lg=1&Co=9309


2.  UN International Classification of Nonprofit Organizations (ICNO)

This Handbook is 6.8MB:
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/publication/seriesf/seriesf_91e.pdf

But p.31 (external p. 42) offers a structure.

So do pp. 36-40, 93-97, 189, 202, 208-11, 213-217.

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>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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