Universal Category System (UCS)

[mrlimbic]

Do people here know about the universal category system (UCS) used by film sound designers & sound effect libraries?

UCS is designed to be very precise in describing sounds to make it easy to be able to find what you need out of many thousands of samples.

It would be great to be able to tag with this level of detail also.

https://universalcategorysystem.com/

[ffont]

Hi @mrlimbic,

Thanks for your comment. We know about UCS, although we did not know about it when we started the Freesound Datasets project (in fact, it had not been yet published). Even though there is some overlap of categories, the categorisation that we use is expected to be a bit more general purpose and many things differ a lot from UCS. We are working though on using UCS in other projects and are definitely interested in adopting it in projects related to Freesound (or even in Freesound itself).