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How Watson Knowledge Catalog relationships are used in Knowledge Accelerators

Relationships in Knowledge Accelerators

The Knowledge Accelerators use a range of different relationship types. Each relationship type has a specific usage that is consistently applied throughout the Knowledge Accelerators.

The different usage of relationships across the Knowledge Accelerators is described in the following table.

Table 1. Relationships in the Knowledge Accelerators
Relationship Name Type of Relationship Usage in IBM Knowledge Accelerators Referenced artifacts
Is a type of / Has a type of Standard
  • Describes the Type Hierarchy between Concept Terms in the Business Core Vocabulary
  • Describes the type hierarchy between Document Terms in the Industry Alignment Vocabularies
  • Concept Terms
  • Document Terms
Is a part of / Has a part of Standard
  • Describes the relationship between a Concept Term and its associated Property Terms
  • Describes the relationship between a Performance Analysis Term and its associated Property or Measure Terms
  • Concept Terms
  • Property Terms
  • Performance Analysis Terms
  • Measure Terms
Is Related to / Relates Standard
  • Describes the Concept Term that a Property Term is related to as part of an explicit Concept to Concept Relationship
  • Property Term
Is Primary Category of Standard
  • Describes where a Category is the owning category for a term. Not used in the Business Scopes.
  • Any Term
  • Categories except those in the Business Scopes
Is Secondary Category of Standard
  • Describes where a Category is referencing a Term owned by another Category.
  • Any Term
  • Categories
Is Parent / Child Category of Standard Describes where a Category is a parent/child of another Category.
  • Any Category
Assigned To / Assigned From Custom Describes the mapping between Terms in the Industry Alignment Vocabularies and the Business Core Vocabulary
  • Concept Term
  • Measure Term
  • Property Term
  • Document Term
  • Defined Term
  • Group Term
  • Report Element Term
Derives / Derived From Custom Describes where a measure term is derived from one or more business terms
  • Measure Term
  • Concept Term
  • Property Term
Analyzes / Is Analyzed By Custom Describes what are the indicators in the performance area analyzed by - for example a concept or a property term
  • Concept Terms
  • Property Terms
  • Performance Analysis Terms
Is A / Can Be Custom Describes a broad equivalence or role between two Concept Terms
  • Concept Terms
Calculates / Calculated From Custom Describes where a measure term is calculated from one or more measure or property terms
  • Measure Terms
  • Property Terms
Supporting / Is Supported By Custom Describes measures and performance areas showing all calculation components of the main performance area measures
  • Performance Analysis Terms
  • Measure Terms
  • Property Terms
Note: The custom relationships that are described are currently represented in Watson Knowledge Catalog as a set of custom attributes describing all the instances for each custom relationship type for a particular term. In addition, these relationships are also included as instances of the IS RELATED TO set of related terms.

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