Directory Structures

[gariben]

How do people get their directory structure for general directories?

Manually typing few thousand categories and sub-categories? or taking Yahoo or DMOZ directory and whacking them a bit? Or is there another method?

Any info is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike

[thebassman]

Buy a script with the categories already in there.

[gariben]

nah.. i'm creating a custom directory as we speak.

I can easily grep the directory structure from Dmoz or Yahoo but ...

anyways.. I'll search around............though any info is greatly appreciated.

[Shawn]

Manually is the best bet, with doing it different than anybody else, make yours a little unique, so no one claims your a copycat type site

[gariben]

i c.

but that's at least few thousand categories...

wow.. your names must be tired from typing.

I'm at the point where the script is mostly done. Now I need to populate the contents. Hmmm.. hard decision.

thanks for the info Shawn.

[Shawn]

Originally Posted by gariben

but that's at least few thousand categories...

wow.. your names must be tired from typing.

The extra work is worth it maintain a unique category structure though

[Woz]

Not to mention that scraping taxonomies and hierarchical structures from other directories involves copyright issues.

[gariben]

Originally Posted by Woz

Not to mention that scraping taxonomies and hierarchical structures from other directories involves copyright issues.

Not really, Dmoz actually allows you to use their directory/license.

http://rdf.dmoz.org/

Anyways, I will probably create several directories.. one using the Dmoz or Yahoo and then create several unique directory structure manually.

[Woz]

Ack! Forgot about DMOZ. Perhaps I should modify my statement thus:-

Not to mention that using taxonomies and hierarchical structures from other directories/sites without permission involves copyright issues.

[Salman]

Woz,

Copying directory categories is not wrong from what I have 'heard' and 'read'. And if it is going against copyright issues, it sure doesn't look like its being enforced unfort.

But again, from what I have read, as long as your not copying the descriptions from a url listed on a site, its fine to take from the category structure.

Then again, forums are not the best place to get legal advice....