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Figure 1: Packages for area 2 - the glossary |
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Each package will be defined in its own model file <package-name>.json and added to the addons/model directory in the atlas build tree.
Glossary Object
An Apache Atlas repository may contain many glossaries, particularly when it is part of a bigger enterprise cluster of repositories. Each glossary may come from a specific team or external organization. Or it may be focused on a particular topic or set of use cases. Figure 2 shows how a glossary is defined.
Figure 2: The glossary providing the anchor point for the glossary content | The anchor for each glossary is the |
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Glossary object. The classifications used with the glossary object are used to document the type of vocabulary it contains and its purpose |
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Figure 2: The glossary providing the anchor point for the glossary content |
Category Hierarchies
The vocabulary for the glossary is organized into a hierarchy of categories. The categories are effectively a folder structure for the glossary. Some of these categories represent the terms for a subject area and this is identified using the SubjectArea classification. The categories may follow a formally published category hierarchy. The LibraryCategoryReference classification is used to document the links to the external category's reference Id.
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