====== SBVR Vocabulary Concepts ======

This page is a summary of the SBVR treatment of the basic ISO 1087 concepts, together with its "ORM-based" view of verb concepts.

SBVR itself is organized as a terminological dictionary that contains multiple vocabularies.  Each terminological entry is, according to SBVR, either a designation (for a noun concept) or a "verb concept wording" (for a verb concept).  But actual SBVR entries have many elements.  The vocabulary diagram below  depicts the principal structures relating SBVR terminological entries to SBVR "vocabulary" concepts.

{{mvf:sbvrvocabularies.png|SBVR vocabulary structures}}

Following ISO 1087, SBVR describes all of the external forms for a concept as "representations", but it defines a different subclass of "representation" for each conceptual element, as is shown in the SBVR represntations diagram below.

{{mvf:sbvrrepresentations.png|SBVR representations}}.