Vocabulary Management

Many organizations have developed artifacts, such as controlled vocabularies, glossaries, data dictionaries and taxonomies, to help them create a common understanding of the meaning of the concepts that they use throughout their business. This is a vital process that needs to be undertaken to gain seamless interoperability of information systems and business processes across an organization. If people are using the same words to mean different things or different words to mean the same thing, communication between people and software breaks down. However, none of the methods mentioned above are practical for reaching this objective. They each either lack formal semantics or else are not machine-readable. Semantic technologies offer a way for organizations to formally define vocabularies that are relevant to their business in machine-readable models called ontologies.

Revelytix is expert in developing vocabularies using the W3C standards OWL and RDF.