Global categories taxonomy
How it works
This page contains the definition of the hierarchy of categories used in Open Food Facts.
The definition contains:
- stopwords (words that can be ignored when matching category names)
- word synonyms (words that can be exchanged when matching category names)
- category synonyms (the synonyms are then matched also in other cateflammegory names that contains those synonyms)
For more details, see Global taxonomies
Current status
- Nov 22 2016: pushed live
To do
- Merge with Wikidata:
Using (carefully) Wikidata Translations
Input the Wikidata ID (Q20162694 for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20162694) in A1, and get translations on column H. Double check the translations before using them.
--Twoflower (talk) 22:11, 14 July 2016 (CEST)
Taxonomy definition
The taxonomy is now managed directly on github: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/blob/master/taxonomies/categories.txt