perty project

perty project is about product categorisation, hierarchy, terminology. There are millions of products but sometimes they are not put under correct category. There is no common system for reference of category to which a product belongs. Sometimes sub categories are mapped to multiple parent categories which often leads to confusion. the perty project will try to provide common reference terminology system.

about the name

the name perty for the project can be derived in many ways as per project objective

• Product ReferencE TerminologY
• Product TERminologY
• Product Ecommerce Reference Term hierarchY
• Product TERm hierarchY

product reference terminology

suitable name for the project is product reference terminology

classification hierarchy

there are many ecommerce webpany (web companies) which follow their own classification hierarchy for product categories. There should be one universal product hierachy and category names. Google has provided it's own taxonomy list for category classification. It is known as Google product category (GPC) and is followed by some webpanies generally in feed reference. Details about GPC can be find at https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6324436 . It follows both id number and name level based usage.