Global Christian Taxonomy

This is a taxonomy / category system for usage by Christian media publishers and consumers.

The current data is here: taxonomy.ttl

Goals for the long term:

• Available in many languages
• Making it possible to search for Christian media over many sources and being able to use a category that filters the media
  • See bundled.media for something that uses this taxonomy (might only work in Chrome at the moment)
• Nested categories, a hierarchy of categories
• Available as RDF, JSON and Excel
• Open Source widgets for CMS'es
• Each category to have:
  • an icon (see Iconify)
  • an image that people can use as a background preferable from Unsplash.
  • a description when to use it
  • aliasses & synonyms
  • References to other systems via owl:sameAs
• A group of organizations that maintain and own this taxonomy (get into contact for joining)

Challenges (and some possible solutions):

• Categories might not translate 100%
  • We could have categories that are siblings in the hierarchy and that have for 70% the same meaning
• How to get media publishers to use this taxonomy?
• The icons and the backgrounds might need to be dependant on the language or the culture
• How to use these taxonomy terms on YouTube or Vimeo?
  • We could create codes such as GCT:034 which systems than can map to the correct label
  • If we choose this way we need tooling for this

Will you join this cause? Get in contact!