Modelling Generated 2026-05-14

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.

What's in here
  • 54 curated business terms — merged from the two OPDA Glossary.xlsx sources (Trust Framework PoC + Technical Working Group), deduplicated.
  • 500 schema concepts — labels and definitions harvested from the title / description annotations on every node of the PDTF v3 schemas.
  • Total: 554 SKOS concepts in pdtf:GlossaryScheme.

Where the terms came from

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Trust Framework PoC
~54 business terms]:::src G2[Glossary.xlsx
Technical Working Group
same set, refined]:::src S[PDTF v3 schemas
title / description
annotations]:::src PROC[Glossary merger
+ SKOS generator]:::proc TTL[business-glossary.ttl
SKOS · 554 concepts]:::out 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.

Browse the glossary

Search the labels, definitions and IRIs. Filter by Kind (business term vs schema concept) or by Area (which top-level branch of the schema the term was harvested from). Click a column header to sort.

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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).

Source files

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