Database Category listing

This article applies to:

• WF - All Versions
• WFR - All Versions

Question:

• What is the current category listing?
• What are the short names and full names of categories?

Procedure:

The easy way to determine the short name for a category is to left click on the category and select library details. This will display the long name and short name relationship.

The listing in this article shows the default categories as of the date when the article was updated. To learn more about the purpose of each category, see the Content Categories Spec Sheet.

Adult Content:

• Child Pornography - KDPORN
• Explicit Art - EXART
• Obscene/Tasteless - OBSC
• Pornography/Adult Content - GPORN
• R Rated - RRATED

Bandwidth:

• Image Servers & Image Search Engines - IMAGES
• Internet Radio - IRADIO
• March Madness Streaming - MMDSTRM
• Olympic Streaming - OLMSTRM
• Peer-to-peer/File Sharing - PR2PR
• Video Sharing - VIDSHAR
• VoIP - VOIP
• Web Based Storage - WSTORE

Streaming Media:

• Flash Video - FLV
• Generic Streaming Media - GSTREAM
• QuickTime Video - QTV
• Real Time Streaming Protocol - RTSP
• Windows Media Video - WMV

Business/Investments:

• Employment - EMPL
• Financial Institution - FINAN
• General Business - GENBUS
• Online Trading/Brokerage - TRADING
• Real Estate - ESTATE

Community/Organizations:

• Community/Organizations - COMORG
• Local Community - LCOMM

Education:

• Education - EDUCAT
• Educational Games - EDUGAM
• Online Classes - ONLCLS
• Reference - REFERE

Entertainment:

• Art - ART
• Comics - COMICS
• Entertainment - GENTER
• Gambling - GAMB
• Humor - HUMOR
• Kids - GKIDS
• Movies & Television - MOVTEL
• Music Appreciation - MUSAPP
• Online Greeting Cards - GRTCRD
• Restaurant/Dining - RESTAUR
• Theater - THEATR

Games:

• Games - GGAMES
• Games Patterns - GAMPTRN

Government/Law/Politics:

• Government - GOVT
• Legal - LEGAL
• Military Appreciation - MILAPP
• Military Official - MILOFL
• Political Opinion - POLTIC

Health/Fitness:

• Fitness - FITNS
• Health/Medical - HEALTH
• Holistic - HOLSTC
• Self Help - GSELF

Illegal/Questionable:

• Criminal Skills - GCRIMI
• Dubious/Unsavory - DUBIUS
• Hate & Discrimination - HATE
• Illegal Drugs - DRUGS
• School Cheating - EDUCHT
• Terrorist/Militant/Extremist - TERROR

Information Technology:

• Dynamic DNS Services - DYNDNS
• Freeware/Shareware - FREEWAR
• Information Technology - INTECH
• Internet Service Provider - ISP
• Portals - PORTALS
• Search Engines - SE
• Web Based Newsgroups - WNEWS

Internet Communication:

• Chat - CHAT
• Message Boards - MESBRD
• Online Communities - ONLCOM 
• Translation Services - TRANSRV
• Web Based Email - WEMAIL
• Web Logs/Personal Pages - WEBLOG
• Web-Based Productivity Apps - WEBPROD

Instant Messaging (IM):

•  Generic IM - IMGEN
•  Google Chat - IMGCHAT
•  Google Talk - IMGTALK
•  ICQ & AIM - ICQAIM
•  IRC - IMIRC
•  Meebo - IMMEEBO
•  My Space IM - IMMYSP
•  PoPo - IMPOPO
•  QQ - IMQQ
•  ToToMoMo - IMTOMO
•  WangWang - IMWWNG
•  Windows Live Messenger - IMMSN
•  Yahoo IM - IMYAHOO

Internet Productivity:

• Adware - ADWARE
• Banner/Web Ads - BANNER
• Fantasy Sports - FANSPRT
• Free Hosts - FREEHST
• Web Hosts - WEB_HST

Remote Access:

• Generic Remote Access - REM_ACC
• GoToMyPC - GO2MYPC
• Remote Desktop - RMTDESK
• Secure Shell - SSH
• Virtual Network Computing - VNC
• pcAnywhere - PCANYWH

Internet/Intranet Misc:

• Domain Landing - DOMAINL
• Edge Content Servers/Infrastructure - EDGECON
• Invalid Web Pages - INVD_PG
• Reviewed/Miscellaneous - RE_MISC

News/Reports:

• March Madness News - MMDNEWS
• News - GNEWS
• Olympic News - OLMNEWS
• Sports - SPORTS
• Weather/Traffic - TRAFIC

Religion/Beliefs:

• Paranormal - PARNML
• Religion - RELIG

Security:

• Bad Reputation Domains - BADREP
• BotNet - BOTNET
• Hacking - HACK
• Malicious Code/Virus - MALCOD
• Phishing - PHISHIN
• Spyware - SPYWARE
• Web-based Proxies/Anonymizers - PROXY

Shopping:

• Online Auction - AUCTION
• Shopping - SHOP

Society/Lifestyles:

• Alcohol - ALCO
• Animals/Pets - ANIMALS
• Books & Literature/Writings - BNL
• Dating/Personals - DATE
• Fashion - FASHN
• Lifestyle & Culture - LIFE
• Recreation - RECREA
• Self Defense - SELFDE
• Social Opinion - SOCOPN
• Tobacco - TOBACCO
• Weapons - WEAPN

Travel/Events:

• Tickets - TICKET
• Travel - TRAVEL
• Vehicles - AUTO

Notes:

• This listing is subject to change at any time (although the core categories are very unlikely to change). If you notice that a short name does not match, ensure your installation has the latest library updates.