Taxonomies

WAND specializes in developing precise and best in class taxonomies covering a wide variety of domains. WAND Taxonomies are available for licensing for use in third party applications that have a need to better organize data and content with structured vocabularies.

Our methodologies include leveraging taxonomy development experts with domain research and customer feedback to develop vocabularies that offer a clear knowledge representation for any given domain. We analyze user behavior whenever possible to augment vocabularies with new concepts or terminology that should be included. Finally, we leverage proprietary software and computational linguistic techniques to assist our human editors in creating the best taxonomies possible.

Domains covered include:

Products and Services Taxonomy

WAND’s Product and Service Taxonomy is the most robust horizontal product and service taxonomy available. This taxonomy Includes 42,000 categories with synonyms and detailed attribute templates for each category. The 42,000 categories are organized into a multi-level hierarchy of broader and narrower terms. The 42,000 categories are further inter-related in a web of related terms to connect terms that are associated with each other, but not with a traditional parent-child relationship.

The Product and Service categories are translated into Chinese-Traditional, Chinese-Simplified, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, and British English. Attributes are not translated.

Applications of Products and Services Taxonomy: B2B Directories, E-Commerce Catalogs

Products and Services Taxonomy Specifications

Local Search Taxonomy

The Local Search Taxonomy includes the WAND Product and Service Taxonomy and adds more than 1 million keywords. These additional keywords reflect users online search behavior and are generated from query log analysis and online search logs. The terminology includes synonyms, superlatives, brands, and model information.

Applications of Local Search Taxonomy: Internet Yellow Pages

The Local Search Taxonomy Specifications

Enterprise Taxonomy

The Enterprise Taxonomy covers terminology relevant to any organization in the areas of Sales and Marketing, Ac counting and Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources, and Legal. Includes a four-tier hierarchy of categories for organizing enterprise information.

This taxonomy is designed to be a starter, or seed, that can quickly and affordably help any company get started on implementing a corporate vocabulary project. Key concepts like diversity training, contracts, budgeting, invoices, and any other corporate function within an enterprise are included. Synonyms are added to the terminology on a regular basis. The vocabulary can be customized with terminology that is specific to a given organization to reflect the classification and searching patterns of that company.

Applications of Enterprise Taxonomy: Enterprise Search

Enterprise Taxonomy Specifications

Jobs Taxonomy

The WAND Jobs taxonomy covers more than 2,900 job titles across all industries. The taxonomy is organized into 13 vertical segments.

Applications of Jobs Taxonomy: Job Boards, Employee Management, and Strategic Human Resources

Jobs Taxonomy Specifications

Travel Taxonomy

The WAND Travel Taxonomy has 1,418 terms in a combination of six micro-taxonomies covering Travel Destination, Travel Activities, Travel Services, Traveler’s Lifestyle, Travel Accommodations, and Modes of Transportation.

Travel Taxonomy Specifications

Medical Taxonomy

The WAND Medical taxonomy includes a hierarchy of medical specialties, such as Oncologist, and a hierarchy of medical diagnoses, such as Lung Cancer.

Medical Taxonomy Specifications

Lifecycle Taxonomy

The WAND Lifecycle taxonomy is designed to help classify information related to a product from its initial design stages to the end of its life when it is being disposed.

Lifestyle Taxonomy Specifications

Banking, Finance, and Investment Taxonomy

The Banking, Finance, and Investment taxonomy covers topics including global markets and exchanges, asset and investments, financial intermediaries, currency lists, investment benchmarks, financial crimes and frauds, and more. The taxonomy was created by finance experts who researched dozens of financial websites and resources to capture terminology important to the industry.
Applications of Banking, Finance, and Investment Taxonomy: Enterprise Search

Banking, Finance, and Investment Taxonomy Specifications

Records Retention Taxonomy

The Records Retention Taxonomy includes categories for nearly all of the types of records or documents that should be included in a legally defensible records retention program. A records retention schedule can be applied to the taxonomy and records can be classified into the taxonomy and scheduled for retention or destruction as appropriate.

Records Retention Taxonomy Specifications