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How to mark and classify Life, the Universe and all?

As a joke, I'm trying to create a tag hierarchy for an icon library that could potentially contain something. The problem is how to make a clear and simple hierarchy of (most) objects? I'm not trying to create super specific categories, just to help users with the search (if I can narrow the 10k icons to category 100, which should already be a lot of help).

I started doing it myself from scratch, but I think that doing it right is very difficult. I am sure that some research has already been done on this issue. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thank.

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You probably don't need a hierarchy, but instead a collection of tags about each icon. Then you can select only the badges that have all the requested tags.

The real problem is the parent / child problem. Do baby icons have parents, or do parents have children? If you say that parents have children, you double the children in the hierarchy because each of the children must be under each of the parents. The same is true if you look at it the other way around. It is often better (especially for what you offer) to simply assign attributes to each “person” for whom there are their children and who their parents are. You can then let the user decide what the tree looks like.

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Ask people to add tags and description to any icon, then provide a search engine. This is not so: no one goes through 1000 categories to find content more. If they see a large index page, they bounce and display the image they are looking for.

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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/1731607/

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