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ontology

/ɒnˈtɒl.ə.dʒi/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The most rigorous way to model a business while declining to define a single word the business uses today.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A formal specification of concepts, their properties, and the relationships among them within a domain, expressive enough to support inference.

Filed

See also

controlled vocabularyThe aspiration; the practice is mostly the uncontrolled kind, which is why this exists.
knowledge graphA graph of how every entity relates to every other, built atop a 'customer' table no two systems define the same way.
semantic modelThe layer where the business finally agrees what 'revenue' means, defined four times to match four dashboards.
taxonomyA tree of categories the steering committee approved in March and routed around by April.