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A Practical Lexicon of Terms

found in KM, KOS, ECM and Enterprise Search in the context of Digital Transformations.


Categorization (metadata)

Identifies the few concepts and named entities that best describe the aboutness of a whole document.

Cloud computing (technology)

Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. 

Computing evolution (technology)

Increased level of abstraction and focus on business logic: from mainframes and physical machines to virtual machines (VMs), containerization and serverless computing. 

Extraction (process)

Extraction identifies the new concepts and named entities that are found in the full text of a document but not in the taxonomy or document metadata.

Graphs (taxonomy)

Graphs, also Big Graphs such as DBpedia, GeoNames and Wikidata, can be used for disambiguation and to validate extraction or other metadata enhancement processes.

Microservices (technology)

Microservices are minimal-function services that are deployed separately but can interact together to achieve a broader use case. These applications then become more straightforward to build and maintain because they are smaller and more manageable.

Monolith (technology)

In software engineering, a monolithic application describes a single-tiered, or not-modular, software application in which the user interface and data access code are combined into a single program from a single platform.

Tagging (metadata)

Tagging identifies the many taxonomy concepts and named entities that are mentioned within the full text of a document.

Workload (technology)

A workload is a collection of resources and code that delivers business value, such as a customer-facing application or a backend process.