3.4.1: COI-Specific Ontologies

Define COI-Specific Ontologies

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COIs will be encouraged through metrics and incentives to develop an ontology that best reflects the community understanding of their shared data. Ontologies include data categorization schemes, thesauruses, vocabularies, key word lists, and taxonomies. Ontologies promote semantic and syntactic understanding of data. For example, taxonomies enhance discovery by providing a hierarchical means of searching for data while providing users and applications with additional insights about data assets by indicating their placement among other data assets. COIdeveloped vocabularies will define terms used in describing data assets, and the thesauruses will identify related terms to assist translation services. Any community that establishes an ontology will publish it to the DoD Metadata Registry to increase understanding across the Enterprise and promote possible reuse.

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