Electronic parts classification

Hello,

We are a company who developes electronic products. We have a lot of Electronic components like capacitors, resistors, fuses, IC, etc.

Actually we want to classify our Parts with Partslink. Actually we do brainstorming about which attributes we should take and how should our classification tree look like.
Every Electronic parts manufacturer has different Attributes, so standardization is not easy to do.

My question to the community is how do you start such a challenge?
Do you know any Database we can use to build our classification tree?
Do you use Databases like HIS CAPS for such afforts?

Greetings

M.Suarez