Business term¶
A human-facing Concept Manifestation used in conversations, documentation, user interfaces, policies, and governance
What is a business term?¶
A Business Term is a human-facing Concept Manifestation. It is how people speak about a Concept in a specific context.
Multiple Business Terms can point to one Concept when they mean the same thing in that context. For example, "Customer", "Counterparty", and "Client" may all be valid Business Terms for one Concept in one use case, while meaning different things in another use case.
Key characteristics¶
- User-facing: used in documentation, policies, UI, and conversation.
- Context-specific: a term may mean different things in different contexts.
- Governable: business owners can decide whether two terms really mean the same Concept.
- Mergeable: Concepts can be merged later when owners agree that they mean the same thing.
Examples¶
- "Customer"
- "Counterparty"
- "Risk Position"
- "Beneficial Owner"
Business terms as manifestations¶
A Business Term is a specialization of
concept:ConceptManifestation.
It carries human-readable lexical forms such as:
- preferred label
- synonym
- abbreviation
- singular form
- plural form
- short UI label
The Concept itself stays thin. The preferred display label is a link from the Concept to a preferred Business Term.
Facts¶
About these facts
We're not prescribing a full OWL ontology here. These are minimal facts you can use to build your own ontology, schema, or graph model.
BusinessTerm¶
- Subclass of ConceptManifestation
- All manifestation facts apply here.
- Language
- A natural language tag should be used when the form is language-specific.
- Lexical form
- Use a label or value for the exact business-facing text.
- Preferred role
- A Concept can mark one Business Term as its preferred business-facing manifestation in a given context.