Classification model for topics (concrete topic names) needed

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Classification model for topics (concrete topic names) needed #1

Open aCandidMind opened 9 years ago

aCandidMind commented 9 years ago

Without investing too much time (I'm planning to do some research) I came up with the following examples for topic tags so far:

Open Data
Knowledge Transfer
Supply Chain Assistants (for Product Designers)
Civic Tech
Microcredit Platforms
Directories (e.g. showcasing projects using open data)
Planning Tools
Disaster Management (might be more clear to people)

Tags like Planning Tools and Disaster Management might be merged to Planning Tools & Disaster Management. I'm open for discussion on more enumerating tags that might illustrate concepts more effectively.

Currently I think a second tag taxonomy for tech topics would help find the right project. Examples would be:

distributed systems
app development
big data
interactive visualizations
digital exhibits & installations

More examples would be great and what do you think about having two taxonomies?

aCandidMind commented 9 years ago

More candidates:

Cultural Dialogue
Enlightenment & Awareness
Spreading Solidarity & Unity

MartinLichtblau commented 9 years ago

Or perhaps you could structure it like a tree which could contain topics or problems. Topics Social, Environment, Economy, Social(Health, Education, Women rights, ...) Environment(Animals, Sustainability, Climate, ...) Economy(B2B, Fairtrade, Crowduning, ...)

aCandidMind commented 9 years ago

That's definitely a consistent way to do it. Only the fear that it might take too many clicks to reach engaging content stopped me from committing to it so far.

MartinLichtblau commented 9 years ago

Just an idea >> Perhaps you could visualize it as a real tree and put a hoover event on every topic - If you hoover over it the next subtree with more detailed topics will be shown. I haven't seen such a categorization type yet, but I think it could be cool and functional.

aCandidMind commented 9 years ago

The current state is that for the october release there'll be two tag taxonomies called tech and purpose. In the future there might be a third taxonomy categorizing the outcome of the projects. Examples would be Collaborative Editor, Planning Tool and Microcredit Platform. But this is not very high on the priority list currently.

Here you'll find an overview and current choices http://candidminds.com/aCandidMind/cftp_categorization.pdf http://candidminds.com/aCandidMind/cftp_categorization.ods http://candidminds.com/aCandidMind/cftp_categorization_xlsx2ods2excel2013xml.xlsx http://candidminds.com/aCandidMind/cftp_categorization_xlsx2ods2openxmltable.xlsx

aCandidMind commented 9 years ago

@MartinLichtblau thanks for your suggestion, this might be integrated in a somewhat related form. But without hovering.

I'm thinking about two list formats currently. One with focus on the categorization which might even be nested (to show all topic categories) and one with a focus on the projects themselves, but grouped into tags.