Does anyone know of any standards for the classification of software?

I have, of course, tried Google/Bing and have found one or two classifications for specific industries, but nothing general. The sort of thing I'm looking for is: General Office Tools -> Wordprocessing -> Word Utilities -> File Management -> Compression -> Winzip

Waht I am after is a Standar that has been issued by some organization, 开发者_JAVA技巧or is used my a number of different parties - not just a classification a single org is using.

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Sourceforge has a software map.

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There is also a list on the Wikipedia article for Software Application.

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UNSPSC or eClass are two competing standards for taxonomy. (Software is just a sub category) http://www.unspsc.org http://www.eclasscontent.com

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sourceforge has a taxonomy (categories) that projects are filed under.

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SourceForge calls its categories "Trove categories", which suggests that they are not the only ones using it, but I could find little to no information about this system.

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Also not an official standard, but possibly more consistently applied, is dmoz's software category.