Business Dictionary
A business dictionary collects and structures a set of concepts that expresses the knowledge of a particular area.
Example of dictionary: medical ontology
You can break down a business dictionary into concept domains.
Examples of concept domain: psychology, pediatrics.
See Concept Domain.
Business dictionaries can be created with the Data Designer profile.
The Elements of a Business Dictionary
A business dictionary is used to describe all the elements defining your information architecture:
• Concepts
A concept expresses the essential nature of a being, an object, or a word through its properties and characteristics or its specific qualities.
For more details, see Concept.• Terms
A term is a word or word group, that is used for a specific meaning in a specific context.For more details, see Searching for Terms in the Business Glossary.• Concept variations
A variation describes how a concept can be varied under another form. The variant is an object similar to the varied object, but with properties or relationships that may differ.For more details, see Concept Components.• Concept types
A concept type enables classification of concepts. Relationships between concept types are represented by concept type components.For more details, see Concept Type.• State concepts
A state concept is a situation in a concept life cycle during which it satisfies certain conditions, executes a certain activity or waits for a concept event. A state concept represents a time interval of which limits are two concept events. A state concept is a phase through which the concept passes during its life cycle.For more details, see Concept or Individual States.• Event concepts
An event concept represents an event occurring during concept life, for example a change of season. An event concept marks the impact on a concept of a phenomenon internal or external to the concept. Concept events can be distinguished as concept start events, end events and intermediate events.For more details, see Describing Event Concepts.• Individuals
An individual represents the occurrence of a concept.For more details, see Individuals.• Individual states
An individual state is an instance of a concept state to which the dictionary state is connected. It represents an individual state during its life cycle.For more details, see Concept or Individual States.A business dictionary can be completely or partially described by a concept diagram.
For more details on environment components, see Presentation of Concept Modeling Diagrams.Accessing the elements of a business dictionary
To access the elements of a business dictionary in HOPEX Data Governance :
1. Click the navigation menu then Glossary > Hierarchy.
2. In the edit area, expand the folder of the business dictionary that interests you.
The list of concepts and terms appears in the dedicated folders.
Concepts carry the name of the term associated with the concept in the data language. For more details, see Using the Glossary in a Multilingual Context.If you expand the folder associated with a concept, the terms and synonyms are accessible in all languages available in your environment HOPEX.
The number of languages proposed from folders depends on your HOPEX environment. To configure the list of languages, see the HOPEX Power Supervisor guide, chapter "Managing Options", "Managing Languages", "Installing Additional Languages".The list of elements of a business dictionary is also accessible in the dictionary properties window, in the Characteristics page, Business information section.Importing business information
You can import existing business information into your repository using an Excel file. See Importing Business Data from an Excel File.
Work Business Dictionary
When initializing business data, a business dictionary is created by default to store the created data and define its owner.
Creating a Business Dictionary
To create a business dictionary:
1. Click the navigation menu then Glossary > Hierarchy View.
2. In the edit area, right-click the Business Dictionaries folder and click New > Business Dictionary.
3. Enter the name of the dictionary and click OK.