Systems and methods for compressing and extracting information from marketplace taxonomies

An apparatus, comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to receive an uncompressed template definition file (TDF) in a template file format and including an uncompressed set of attributes associated with a taxonomy of an online marketplace, the uncompressed set of attributes including a first attribute and a second attribute,
• the processor configured to compress the uncompressed TDF by defining an association between the first attribute and the second attribute with a third attribute based on each of the first attribute, the second attribute and the third attribute having a common characteristic to define a compressed TDF in the template file format and including a set of compressed attributes including the third attribute and excluding the first attribute and the second attribute,
• the processor configured to send the compressed TDF to a taxonomy platform such that a set of inventory data associated with a merchant is mapped, based on at least the compressed TDF, to the compressed set of attributes to define mapped inventory data,
• the processor configured to associate a value of the third attribute within the mapped inventory data with a value of the first attribute and a value of the second attribute, the processor configured to define, based on the mapped inventory data, a file including values for the uncompressed set of attributes, the values for the uncompressed set of attributes excluding the value for the third attribute and including the value for the first attribute and the value for the second attribute, the processor configured to send the file to the online marketplace such that the value for the first attribute and the value for the second attribute are mapped, based on at least the file, to the taxonomy of the online marketplace.