Since pumps have been a manufactured commodity for about 400 years ( https://www.worldpumps.com/general-processing/features/a-brief-history-of-pumps/ ) there is an abundance of existing typologies and taxonomies dealing with pumps. If the goal is a general tagging scheme that can further be refined when needed to more detailed descriptions, there is a fairly low delta from a complete scheme compared to an incomplete one which will grow by random accretion. See IEEE GlobalSpec's Engineering360 https://www.globalspec.com/pfdetail/pumps/types There are public domain classification systems available also, like *UNSPSC* # *4015151 *takes you to a Stainless Steel Deep Well Submersible Pump. See the section " 2.2. Industrial Categorization Schemes and Product Data Management in 'Inter-organizational Networks" in Integrated Product Ontologies for Inter-Organizational Networks' at https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c471/40672c0c2e5a34c098fcd2809185537ee985.pdf As a bonus, the UNSPSC is already translated to English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Hungarian.W3C has somewhat detailed instructions how to approach building a typology for the .many other things', one at https://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/w3pm/XGR-w3pm-20091008/#B.12 , there are similar simpler cookbooks out there.
Michael Patrick Data Ferret
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