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The tool was released in January 2018. Further development is continuous and carried out in cooperation with the registered users of the tool.
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- some attributes have several sub-attributes; “preferred term”, for example, has almost a dozen sub-attributes
- preferred term is the ONLY mandatory attribute of a concept, everything else is optional although definition, language versions and related concepts are recommendedstatus cannot be changed to “valid” by a content contributor; only the Public Sector Core Vocabulary Group can decide a concept is officially valid
The main attributes for terminologies:
- name
- language
- contributor / owner organisation
- description
- status
- information domain, e.g. “health”, “environment”, “education”, “social services”, “traffic”…“traffic" etc.
- namespace
The intended benefits of the
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tool
- Precise and efficient management of concepts and terminologies, with easy change log control and better visibility for your organisation’s terminologies and concepts.
- Avoiding the unnecessary and even harmful cases of having the same content in different, unconnected instances; efficient reuse of once created content.
- Information contents can be freely browsed and used in accordance with the terms of the usage agreement.
- A single point of access to semantic materials created by different organisations, regardless of the status of the materials; ie. both “waiting for approval” “draft” and officially approved (valid) content are ok in the tool but you use the not-yet-approved content at your own risk. The public sector
- Terminologies are reliable to use because they are managed along common guidelines and are up to date
- Seamlessly interacting, semantically coherent information systems and flows and knowledge structures
- A public sector whose entire information layer is semantically interoperable
The Controlled Vocabularies Tool also includes new concepts that have been and are created in ongoing data modelling processes.
All terminologies in the tool are licenced withLink to the instructions of the Terminologies Tool (in Finnish).