The subcategories of the Business Core Vocabulary

Subcategories of Business Core Vocabulary

In the Business Core Vocabulary the subcategories provide the main means by which a Data Steward can group the terms.

The subcategories in the Business Core Vocabulary can either group terms according to main data concepts (for example Product, Location) or according to relevant business specific topics (for example Risk & Compliance, Customer, and so on). Any terms in the Vocabulary can potentially have many referencing relationships to different categories within that Vocabulary.

Table 1. Examples of core area categories
Industry	Category name	Description	Terms
Cross Industry	Person	This business subject area groups all terms related to a human being, either alive or dead.	Date of Birth Full Name Passport Number
Energy and Utilities	Asset	A category that groups business terms that are concerned with how a piece of equipment is tracked, monitored or maintained. It does not represent a functional view of the asset on a network.	Asset Asset Configuration Asset Model
Financial Services	Involved Party	This category groups terms representing all participants that may have contact with the modeled organization or that are of interest to the modeled organization and about which the modeled organization wishes to maintain information.	Customer Involved Party Organization
Healthcare	Diagnosis	A category that groups business terms that support the medical determination of disease or syndrome established by a practitioner. The focus is on the disease process and the physical, genetic, or environmental cause of that process and includes both the coding and observation of a medical condition.	Diagnosis Code Disease Type
Insurance	Claim	This category area groups all terms related to Claim. This covers how requests for insurance benefits are represented, and how they are related to the aspects of the insurance business such as policies. It includes the structure of a claim (the splitting of a claim into smaller claims parts such as claim folder, elementary claim), the responsibilities of a claim (what the operations to be performed by a claim are (for example, claim offers and offer acceptance) and what information is to be included in a claim), and the relationships claims have with other related insurance or risk information.	Claim amount paid Claim