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Figure 1 shows the packages for the glossary.

 

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Figure 1: Packages for area 2 - the glossary

  • 0210: Top-level Glossary object definition.
  • 0220: Glossary Categories and their relationships.
  • 0230: Glossary Terms and their relationships to Glossary and Category.
  • 0240: Semantic classifications for glossary terms
  • 0250: Semantic relationships between Glossary Terms
  • 0260: Defining contexts in the glossary
  • 0270: Semantic assignments for metadata entities
  • 0280: Structuring relationships between Glossary Terms

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Figure 4: Terms

  • GlossaryTerm represents a term in a glossary. 
  • TermAnchor links each term to exactly one Glossary object.  This means that this is its home glossary.  If the Glossary object is deleted then so are all of the terms linked to it.
  • TermCategorization is a relationship used to organize terms into categories.  A term may be linked with many categories and a category may have many terms linked to it.  This relationship may connect terms and categories both in the same glossary and in different glossaries.
  • LibraryTermReference provides reference information for how this term corresponds to a term in an external glossary.

 

 

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Thesaurus

The dictionary thesaurus model adds some basic term classification used to show how particular terms are used.  Figure 5 shows the dictionary thesaurus model.

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Figure 5: The dictionary thesaurus model

  • ActivityDescription is a classification used to indicate that the term describes a verb, or an activity.  Most term definitions are nouns, they describe concepts or things.  However, it is useful to be able to define the meanings of particular activities in the glossary.  The ActivityDescription classification highlights when a term describes such an activity.
    • OPERATION - describes a function or API call
    • ACTION - describes a governance action that results from evaluating governance rules.
    • TASK - describes a task performed by a person.
    • PROCESS - describes a process, which is a setries of steps that are performed in a defined order.
    • PROJECT - describes a type of project.
    • OTHER - describes some other type of activity
  • AbstractConcept - the term describes an abstract concept.
  • Modifier - the term is used as a grammatical modifier.  For example, "high-value" is a modifier for "customer".

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