Update Categories List

[rgaudin]

[was originally incorrectly opened at https://github.com/offspot/overview/issues/5]

As discussed during Hackathon, we acknowledge that the current list of Categories (source-website based) is not satisfactory.

We want to replace it with a new –limited– list, based on Knowledge families ; inspired by the Dewey Classification of the root categories of The Library of Congress or others. @Popolechien will submit something.

We also want those categories to be translated which will lead to a libkiwix ticket.
We also want to explore iconography for categories but this discussion will happen once we have settled on the new list.

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@kelson42 wrote on May 3 2024, 2:08 PM GMT

Disclaimer: This is an ongoing draft

* Literature (Romans, books, essays, ...)

* Conferences

* News (Kind of "journalism" work)

* Courses

* Knowledge References (Encyclopedia, dictionnary, scientific publication, ...)

* Popular culture (Fan work)

* Kids (dedicated to kids <12)

* Know-how Tutorial & guides (howtos of any sort, technical docs)

* Vulgarisation (explaining anything in a simple manner outside proper school/curriculum)

* Other

@Popolechien wrote on May 8 2024, 1:38 PM GMT

I was going to suggest working off Dewey classes or the Library of Congress Classification, but considering the type of content we have this might work better.

[benoit74]

Next steps discussed today:

• @Popolechien proposes an alternative list of categories (set 2), more or less based on Library of Congres
• @kelson42 confirms its draft of categories (set 1) is OK as a first version
• @benoit74 extracts a random set of 50 ZIMs to classify in terms of categories and tags, and create a spreadsheet to fill with the two alternatives (set 1 as category and set 2 as tags ; set 2 as category and set 1 as tags)
• everyone interested does a proposal of classification / tagging

[benoit74]

Spreadsheet is ready at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12pLOEERVqrPtAU7yc6NoIn3bBUDh5Hz3vjB7bQFIwRs/edit?usp=sharing

I selected only 30 ZIMs because it was already a significant work to find them, and probably as well a significant work to fill the sheet. Feel free to add some if you miss some.

It now misses the two list of categories from @Popolechien and @kelson42

[Popolechien]

Yeah I've asked librarians about it and they should get back to me soon-ish. Apparently my question was more complex than I anticipated.