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Last updated: Jun 21, 2024
There are five main category areas: Business Core Vocabulary, Business Performance Indicators, Business Scopes, Industry Alignment Vocabularies, and Synonyms that contain many related subcategories.
A subcategory is a high-level business area, which is intended to show all the terms for a vocabulary, that relate to a particular business area. These business areas can be either conceptual, for example Product or Location, or can be business-specific, for example Risk & Compliance, Customer etc.
Any term in the vocabulary can have many referencing relationships to different subcategories within that vocabulary.
A subcategory must:
- Have a business meaningful name.
- Have a generic name that is applicable as a high-level grouping of all its business terms.
- Have a description that must be clear enough to avoid ambiguity when assigning a business term to it
- Not overlap with another subcategory.
- Be at a similar level of granularity as the other subcategories.