# Taxonomies In Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/taxonomies-in-elasticsearch/26691>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 2, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/taxonomies-in-elasticsearch/26691 "2015-08-02T14:50:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![darksoldier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@darksoldier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/darksoldier)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/taxonomies-in-elasticsearch/26691/1 "2015-08-02T14:50:37Z")

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Hi All,

I am currently working on a Project which involves integration of thousands of hierarchical taxonomies that we built .  
So the users can search by taxonomies, As an example of hierarchical taxonomies that i use:

Painting\>canvas\>cotton canvas  
Painting\>brush  
Painting\>paintbrush\>  
Painting\>paint\>oilpaint  
Painting\>paint\>cerulean  
Painting\>paint\>raw sienna  
Painting\>paint\>yellow ocre  
Painting\>paint\>red ocre  
Painting\>paint\>burnt ocre  
Painting\>paint\>white  
Painting\>portrait  
Painting\>landscape

My question how can i integrate thousands of this hierarchical taxonomies in Elasticsearch so user can use it as facets to search in my project ?

Thanks in advance

Best regards

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**Author:** ![loren](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/loren/32/44942_2.png) [@loren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/loren)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/taxonomies-in-elasticsearch/26691/2 "2015-08-02T20:33:52Z")

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Not sure if it fits your use case but perhaps the [hierarchy tokenizer](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-pathhierarchy-tokenizer.html) would help?

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**Author:** ![darksoldier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@darksoldier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/darksoldier)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/taxonomies-in-elasticsearch/26691/3 "2015-08-02T20:47:13Z")

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Thank you Loren for your reply, I don't think so because i will use taxonomies in Skos format as external source because it is voluminous taxonomies that i built and then i need to index it in Elasticsearch to use it as facets or agregations !

Thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/taxonomies-in-elasticsearch/26691/4 "2017-07-05T23:57:50Z")

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