Taxonomy as a Service: Are We Talking About the Same Thing? Controlled Vocabularies and Taxonomies for Humanitarians

Words Matter! Using mutually understandable terminology is vital to humanitarian collaboration. How do you collaborate with someone if you use different words to describe the same thing? How do you find the information you need if everyone is describing things differently?

This site provides access to OCHA’s controlled vocabularies and taxonomies as human-readable spreadsheets and machine readable APIs. They can be easily integrated into all humanitarian platforms, information resources and datasets with little management overhead.