iTrust Security creates a taxonomy or organization structure for the data, based on specifications. This taxonomy can be supplied by the customer and modified. It can be an industry standard taxonomy such as UNSPSC or eClass, or it can be based on iTrust’s existing classification schema. iTrust develops this taxonomy to the lowest or leaf class level, so that each specific item in the customer’s data has a unique class (i.e., carriage bolts have a carriage bolt class, which is different from a machine screw class.)

iTrust creates the data dictionary, the list of attributes (descriptions) required for each class, and the valid values for each attribute. This enables subsequent production processes to classify each item/part correctly and assign the correct values to each item’s attributes.

By classifying each item properly and providing detailed attributes for each class, it enables the customer to search and find the desired items. Depending on the types of attributes provided, the customer could perform parametric searches, keyword or fuzzy logic searches, as well as perform ad-hoc queries, filtering, and sorting.