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Context Treatments
There are two kinds of what we might call 'Context' in play:
- Word usage context
- Concept original context
Word Usage Context
This is the context of the owning Task Force or SIG and is part of the original remit of this work: you don't simple say 'This word means this' you say 'In the context of this TF, this SIG, this document, this effort etc., this word means this'.
Origin Context
Where possible, words used in a given TF or SIG will have been sourced from an appropriate community of practice outside of the TF itself. This might be the OMG as a whole (for terms like 'metadata' or 'model') o it might be some source selected by the TF or SIG members, so for example GovDTF might choose a particular group for the origin of all terms relating to statistics.
Terms sourced from these external sources need to have a treatment of context relating to that source.
Depending on the nature of the resource maintained by that external community of practice, we might be looking at:
- A Vocabulary
- An ontology
(this distinction has not yet been discussed)
Vocabulary Context
For an external vocabulary these are words, so the same calculus applies as would be the case for this TF or SIG. Indeed he external source might be another OMG SIG or Task Force - for example most TFs would look to the blockchain PSIG for definition of Blockchain and DLT related words / terms
Ontology Context
This would be the contextual scope of the ontology in which the concept is defined.
In the
