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SBVR11 — terminological dictionary

  • Key: SBVR11-77
  • Legacy Issue Number: 12542
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: General Electric ( Mark Linehan)
  • Summary:

    SBVR currently has multiple concepts for organizing vocabularies and rules:

    • conceptual schema (clause 8.5)
    • fact model (8.5)
    • body of shared meanings (11.1.1)
    • body of shared concepts (11.1.1)
    • terminological dictionary (11.1.1)
    • vocabulary (11.1.1)
    • rulebook (11.2.2.4)

    Some issues:
    3) A terminological dictionary should be able to incorporate other
    terminological dictionaries, as with "vocabulary incorporates vocabulary".
    Otherwise, we cannot structure terminological dictionaries in parallel with
    vocabularies

  • Reported: SBVR 1.0 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — SBVR 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    In SBVR vocabularies are lists of designations and fact type forms. Vocabularies are packaging containers for SBVR business ontologies that are designed for particular audiences and/or uses. Vocabularies may be assembled from other vocabularies using the fact type vocabulary1 incorporates vocabulary2.
    Terminological Dictionaries are terminological products that incorporate facts for related SBVR concepts, such as definitions, synonyms, and examples.
    The content of a terminological dictionary is determined by a vocabulary:
    terminological dictionary presents vocabulary
    Definition: the terminological dictionary sets forth representations related to the designations and fact type forms of the vocabulary
    Since there can be many vocabularies for (groupings of) a given speech communities designations and fact type forms and since vocabularies are oriented to audience / use, full modular capability is currently available for any terminological dictionary via terminological dictionary presents vocabulary and vocabulary1 incorporates vocabulary2. All that need be done is to define a vocabulary whose sole purpose is to specify the designations and fact type forms for a given terminological dictionary. If other vocabulary contents are desired in the terminological dictionary, all that has to be done is to add another “included” vocabulary to the terminological dictionary’s vocabulary.
    Conclusion: no additional SBVR function is needed to provide the desired capability.

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:58 GMT