melospot/afrotaxonomy

An open-source, structured taxonomy of African music genres with hierarchy, metadata and tags. # Afrotaxonomy A structured, file-based taxonomy for African music genres and subgenres. ## Repository layout - `schema/` - `genre.schema.json` - `tags.schema.json` - `data/` - `genres/` (source of truth, organized by region/country) - `tags/` (controlled vocabularies) - `mappings/` (optional external platform mappings) - `relations.yaml` (cross-genre edges) - `build/dist/` (compiled outputs) - `tools/` (build/validate/lint scripts) - `docs/` (editorial and taxonomy policy docs) - `tests/` (schema + integrity tests) - `.github/workflows/validate.yml` (CI checks) ## Genre file minimum ```yaml id: example_genre name: Example Genre parents: [african_pop] ``` ## Build and validation ```bash python tools/lint.py python tools/check_duplicates.py python tools/validate.py python tools/build.py pytest -q ``` ## Subgenre rule - Every subgenre is its own file and points to its parent via `parents`.