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Last updated: Jun 21, 2024
The core grouping of the Knowledge Accelerators terms independent of any business topic. This consists of a set of IBM Knowledge Catalog categories, where each category represents a significant cross-enterprise subject area.
Characteristics:
- The Business Core Vocabulary consists of the set of categories relating to the main subject areas covered and a set of business terms.
- Each term is owned by one of the categories of the Business Core Vocabulary.
- Each category of the Business Core Vocabulary should be a real business concept in its own right that resonates with business users.
- As a rule, most of the categories in the Business Core Vocabulary typically own in the range of 40 - 500 business terms.
- Each term in the Business Core Vocabulary must belong to one and only one core area category or subcategory. It is possible for different terms in a term type hierarchy to belong to different subcategories.
- Any property terms should belong to the same subcategory as their owning concept, except for any common properties which will have Business Core Vocabulary are as their primary category.