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Mandy Chessell commented on ATLAS-1768:
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[~Stefhan] Hello Stefan,
the classification for Taxonomy specified that the glossary is a taxonomy.
This means the structure of the categories is significant in defining where the
terms belong. There may also be term to term mappings as you point out. Often
such taxonomies are used in organizing document collections.
A glossary without the Taxonomy classification means that the category
hierarchy is just a logical organization of terms. So it is a less formal
glossary. This is the most common case.
I have asked the industry models team if they can help me add an additional
model to add ontological relationships and classifications. In that case we
would also have a classification for the glossary called "Ontology".
These classifications help to show the relative formality in different glossary
instances in the metadata repositories. We can apply different levels of
constraints to these types of glossary and would probably visualise them
differently.
I have added a comment to say that terms can be linked between glossaries.
> Create common types for Open Metadata
> -------------------------------------
>
> Key: ATLAS-1768
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-1768
> Project: Atlas
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: atlas-core
> Affects Versions: 0.9-incubating
> Reporter: Mandy Chessell
> Assignee: Mandy Chessell
> Labels: OpenMetadata
>
> This JIRA describes a proposal for standard types for open metadata entities
> and relationships. For example, glossaries, database definitions, rules,
> policies, ...
> The value of having standard definitions for metadata is to enable type safe
> APIs and business level UIs plus be able to exchange metadata between
> different instances of metadata repositories.
> The implementation of these common types is divided into 8 areas:
> * Area 0 - for extensions to Apache Atlas's base model
> * Area 1 - for definitions of the data-related assets we are governing and
> using
> * Area 2 - for a glossary of meanings and semantic relationships
> * Area 3 - for information about asset use, crowd-sourced definitions and
> collaboration around the data-related assets
> * Area 4 - for governance such as policies, rules and classifications
> * Area 5 - for reference models and reference data
> * Area 6 - for metadata discovery processes (see
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-1748)
> * Area 7 - for lineage
> Adaptation and flexibility are key in metadata environments so these common
> definitions must be extensible - and we still need to support the ad hoc
> definition of new types in Atlas.
> Apache Atlas supports meta-types that are used in the definition of new
> types. These are currently enumeration, struct, classification and entity.
> JIRA https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-1690 adds relationships to
> this list. The open metadata models make use of all of these meta-types.
> These are represented by sterotypes on the classes of the open metadata
> definitions.
> The Atlas wiki has the models as a set of linked pages which are probably the
> easiest way to view the models.
> Start here:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ATLAS/Building+out+the+Apache+Atlas+Typesystem
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