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    Business glossary

    The merged PDTF business glossary — the curated dictionary of business terms plus the controlled vocabulary harvested from schema annotations. It is the seed of the SKOS taxonomy and, in turn, the OWL ontology.

    See also: Ontology manual — Concept tier

    This page is the pre-ontology SKOS seed: 54 business terms + 500 schema-derived concepts, harvested from the PDTF v3 schemas and the OPDA Glossary spreadsheets. The Concept tier of the Ontology manual is the generator-emitted authoritative reference: 41 entities defined in business language with Identity Criterion, organised into seven modules. The two are complementary registers for different audiences.

    What's in here
    • 54 curated business terms — merged from the two OPDA Glossary.xlsx sources (Trust Framework PoC + Technical Working Group), deduplicated.
    • 698 schema entities — deduplicated object / class concepts harvested from the PDTF v3 schemas, with labels in singular form.
    • Total: 752 concepts (down from a pre-dedup count of 1,024).

    Where the terms came from

    flowchart LR G1["`Glossary.xlsx Trust Framework PoC *~54 business terms*`"]:::external G2["`Glossary.xlsx Technical Working Group *same set, refined*`"]:::external S["`PDTF v3 schemas *title / description annotations*`"]:::external PROC["`Glossary merger + SKOS generator`"]:::process TTL["`business-glossary.ttl SKOS · 554 concepts`"]:::data G1 --> PROC G2 --> PROC S --> PROC PROC --> TTL
    Two human-curated spreadsheets + schema-annotation harvester → one SKOS concept scheme.

    Two kinds of entries

    KindCountOriginUse
    Business term 54 OPDA Glossary spreadsheets (Trust Framework PoC + Technical WG) Authoritative business definitions. Use as skos:prefLabel + skos:definition in the ontology.
    Schema concept 500 Harvested from JSON Schema title / description on PDTF v3 nodes Working vocabulary. Needs an editorial pass with the Technical WG before becoming canonical.
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    Tip: set Kind = Business term to see only the 54 curated entries; the rest are working definitions extracted from schema annotations.

    Where this is heading

    1. Editorial pass with the Technical Working Group — reconcile the 54 OPDA terms (open-banking-flavoured) with the 500 schema concepts (property-flavoured) so the glossary reads as one coherent vocabulary.
    2. Promote to SKOS taxonomy — group concepts under broader categories (Transaction · Property · Participant · Claim · Document · Form · Search) with skos:broader / skos:narrower. See the Concept taxonomy page (stub).
    3. Then OWL classes — promote the top-level branches into ontology classes with W3C-VC alignment. See Ontology (OWL).

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