{"id":39086,"date":"2026-02-19T16:28:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/alternatives-to-the-udc-universal-decimal-classification-knowledge-taxonomy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:28:28","slug":"alternatives-to-the-udc-universal-decimal-classification-knowledge-taxonomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/alternatives-to-the-udc-universal-decimal-classification-knowledge-taxonomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives To The UDC (Universal Decimal Classification) Knowledge Taxonomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I&#8217;ve been looking for a general taxonomy with breadth and depth, somewhat similar to the Dewey-Decimal, or UDC taxonomies. <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t find an expression of the Dewey-Decimal (and tbh it&#8217;s probably fairly out of date now) and while the UDC offer a widely available 2,500-concept summary version, it doesn&#8217;t go down into enough detail for practical use. The master-reference file is ~70k in size, but costs &gt;\u20ac350 a year to license.<\/p>\n<p>Are there any openly available, broad and deep taxonomical datasets that I can easily download that are both reasonably well-accepted as standards, and which do a good job of defining a range of topics, themes or concepts I can use to help classify documents and other written resources.<\/p>\n<p>One minute I might be looking at a document that provides technical specifications for a data-processing system, the next, a summary of some banking regulations around risk-management, or a write-up of the state of the art in AI technology. I&#8217;d like to be able to tag each of these different documents within a standard scheme of classifications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/ResidentTicket1273\"> \/u\/ResidentTicket1273 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1r90n65\/alternatives_to_the_udc_universal_decimal\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1r90n65\/alternatives_to_the_udc_universal_decimal\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-39086 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='39086' data-nonce='9941108d62' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-39086 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-39086 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking for a general taxonomy with breadth and depth, somewhat similar to the Dewey-Decimal, or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}