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# Universal Category System - Community Resources
## What is this?
This repository contains documentation and some developer resources for the
[Universal Category System][ucs], a library classification system and file
naming convention for sound effects recordings used widely in the motion
picture, television and videogame/interactive industries.
[ucs]: https://universalcategorysystem.com
## What's here?
Some items of interest are:
- [JSON-formatted UCS Schedules](json/) of version **8.2.1** of the UCS in
all available languages.
- The schedules have been normalized so all synonyms are contained in a
list (no longer delimited by word separators) and lower-cased.
- The [tool](tools/ucsxls2json.py) used to make these JSON files from the
original XLS file.
- Transcriptions of core UCS documentation into ReStructuredText:
- Tim Nielsen's original [*UCS File Naming Convention*][ucs_fns] document.
- An unofficial [list of released UCS versions](docs/versions.rst).
- A [link tree](docs/links.rst) to UCS resources.
- Zipped [UCS Category-SubCategory directory trees](dirs) in all of the
available languages.
- The [directory-creation tool](tools/ucsdirs.py) that was used to create
these trees from the JSON UCS schedules.
[ucs_fns]:docs/ucs_file_naming_convention.rst
## Who maintains this?
This repository is maintained by [Jamie Hardt][jh]. I'm a user of UCS but I
don't otherwise have any formal affiliation with Tim Nielsen, Justin Drury or
the UCS creators or website.
[jh]: https://github.com/iluvcapra