Relationship between Business Terms
Content managers can link business terms based on default relationships in the Analyst tool, or custom relationships. Use the business term template to define custom relationships. Link business terms when you define the business term.
Relationships help glossary consumers understand how the current business term interacts with other terms in the same glossary. Use relationships to provide a broader definition of business concepts, and to extend the context of information in the current business term.
You can use the following relationships to define related terms:
- See Also
Use the see also relationship to identify business terms that have semantic similarity to the current business term or to provide more information about the current business term. For example, if the current business term is "function point," link to "software sizing" and "source lines of code." All the three business terms are related because they measure different aspects of software development.
- Not Same As
- Use the Not Same As relationship in the following situations:
- - Identify terms that have a similar name but have different meanings. Link to business terms that have the same name as the current business term but are semantically different. For example, in the manufacturing glossary, "shuttle" can be used to denote weaving or to denote a transportation vehicle.
- - Identify terms that business users might use colloquially to denote the current term, but are not an accurate representation of the current term. For example, the term "portfolio" is not the same as "stocks."
- Parent - Children
- Some business terms define high level concepts. Other business terms might use the high level concept in the current term. The child business term derives information based on the concepts in the parent business term. For example, "simple mortgage," "reverse mortgage," and "usufructuary mortgage" are child terms to the parent term "mortgage."
- The parent and child relationship is transitive. Define the parent business term in the current term. The Analyst tool identifies the current term as a child when you open the parent term.
- Contains
- Use the contains relationship to identify other business terms used to implement the current business term. For example, a bank check contains a Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) number. If the current business term is "check," use the contains relationship to link to the business term "Magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) number."