Predefined business terms

You can use predefined business terms to describe personal data.

Predefined business terms describe core concepts in the following personal data areas:

  • Person
  • Organization
  • Employment Record
  • Contact Information
  • Finance Information

Predefined business terms have a hierarchy defined. Some of them you can identify by the concept tag. For each of these concept terms, there is a set of business terms that describes the various properties that are related to the concept. You can identify them by the property tag.

For example, the concept of Person has the following related terms:

  • Age
  • Passport Number
  • First Name
  • Last Name

These property terms are related to the relevant concept term with an Is Part Of relationship.

To assist with term assignment during metadata enrichment, some of the terms have predefined relationships with the relevant 160 data classes. Also, where appropriate, these terms have relationships with the standard IBM Knowledge Catalog classifications of Personal Information, Personally Identifiable Information and Sensitive Personal Information.

Also, you can use global search to find predefined business terms.

Installing sample predefined business terms

You can install a sample of 100 predefined business terms and 1 sample category (Knowledge Accelerator Sample Personal Data). You can also create your own categories to better organize governance artifacts in a hierarchical structure similar to folders. For more information, see Categories and Predefined categories.

  1. Go to Administration > Configurations and settings and click the Add industry vocabularies tile.
  2. Click Sample terms to import a sample of 100 predefined business terms in the Knowledge Accelerator Sample Personal Data category.
  3. Set the merging options.
    For more information, see Methods for merging imported and existing artifacts.
  4. Click Add to start the import.
    When you see a notification message that the import is starting, you can close the window.
  5. Optional: Click the View details button to see the import progress and click the View log button to see details of the import. If you want to further organize your data along a common and known business vocabulary and automatically provide business context and definitions during the onboarding of regulatory and industry data content, install pre-created Knowledge Accelerator industry-specific vocabularies. For more information, see What are Knowledge Accelerators and Adding Knowledge Accelerators.

Alternatively, you can install the sample predefined business terms with API, as desribed in Adding Knowledge Accelerators with API.

Listing sample predefined business terms

To view the sample predefined business terms go to the Categories menu and select the Knowledge Accelerator Sample Personal Data category.