Data model

All records of a glossary are held together by a single GlossaryResource which holds the main classes GlossaryEntry and Agent. The class GlossaryEntry has a set of fields for terms to define and definitions. They may be of the type "term" or "abbreviation", which mainly defines how they are displayed when a glossary is embedded into another data model.

Agents may be used to mark the authors of the entire glossary. Individual entries do not have an authorship relation since they are intended to be very brief. In addition, the model knows a flexible SameAs class, which can be used to connect a glossary to authority files.

Graphical overview