Taxonomy - Identify which one(s) to use and their challenges

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Overview

Identify most recent and official taxonomies and identify issues of using them inside of Project Index

Action Items:

Review all the Taxonomies identified by CfA and Brigade champions who are working in this area

• Identify pros and cons of resources
• Identify challenges in sustainability that might impact Project Index.

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Analysis

A lot of work has gone into the taxonomy at CFA, but it doesn't have a taxonomy for everything we need. We either need to update it via commits with the other taxonomies if it's going to be the repository that we use for the Brigade-Project-Index, or come up with another action plan.

Types of Taxonomies potentially needed

1. Issue(s) Addressed (different from Category according to Seattle Democracy Lab)
2. Topics (a.k.a Interests, Category) - Already Exists, might need updating.
3. Technologies - Already Exists, might need updating.
4. Project Stage (Ideation, research, Design, Development, MVP, Active)
5. Project Status (Updated, Active, Less Active, Dormant, Abandoned)
6. Project Roles
7. Skills Needed (- a.k.a. Project Need - Can be Technologies or Roles, or specific Tasks)

Next steps

1. Review and discuss alternative to an all Taxonomy plan (details on Issue codeforamerica/brigade-project-index#7)
2. Figure out what the difference in Seattle's taxonomy between Issue(s) Addressed and Project Category and if its relevant to which Taxonomies we need.
3. Decide as a group which of the 7 currently identified taxonomy types are going to be required for this project.
4. Get Volunteers to take on each of the Taxonomies we decide upon.
5. Each Volunteer will review all the current taxonomies listed on the Discourse topic and rationalize the data into a new Taxonomy for their type. Then commit to the CFA taxonomy.

Research

This discourse is the most up to date resource on where all the taxonomies are.

Taxonomy at CFA.

• Topics
• Technologies

The taxonomy produced by DemocracyLab in Seattle has more taxonomies that might be useful, based on what we decide we need.

• Technologies
• Issues(s) Addressed (unclear if this is analogous to CFA's topics)
• Project Category (unclear if this is analogous to CFA's topics)
• Project Need
• Project Stage
• Project Status
• Project Roles

[themightychris]

The aforementioned Taxonomy at CFA was just a proof-of-concept technical format I put together from data dumped from CodeForPhilly.org's organic tag databases. No work has gone into editing it, and the selection of topics and technologies was only driven by what sets I had on hand. It should be bulldozed over