Let's be honest! Finding documents of interest on edocr.com is not quite as bad as the above image (hopefully, you will agree with us on this). Whilst we have in-built search capability and tagging, we want to introduce easier ways to find documents as we attract more and more users and documents each day.

As part of the on-going development of edocr.com, we have started to categorise documents. Anyone who has ever tried to categorise information will understand how hard it is to get it right first-time. There are so many ways of categorising information from standards such as Standard Industry Classifications (SIC) codes used in the UK to North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) used in the United States. In addition, many business websites have adopted their own. One classic example is Kompass Directory. After initial research, we came to the conclusion that we have no choice but to create our own.

When we build edocr in 2007, our initial thoughts were to build categorisation based on combining relevant tags. Having seen how some of our community members tag, we can only conclude that not everyone understand the importance of tagging nor how to tag effectively. Perhaps, we are guilty of not describing this process well (see previous blog post on tagging here).

It is our belief that the subject of any document should be able to be covered with four levels of categorisation. As primary categories, we have already introduced the followings:

- Business Solutions
- Business Support Services
- Chemicals
- Companies
- Consumer
- Construction
- Countries
- Engineering
- Finance
- Government
- Finance
- Food & Beverage
- Government
- Hospitality & Tourism
- Insurance
- Manufacturing
- Technology
- Transportation
- Utilities

More primary categories will be added over the coming days and weeks. Adding 2nd, 3rd and 4th levels of categories to above will continue well into the year. Please do engage with us if we have not introduce categories that are relevant to your documents.