OpenMetadata/openmetadata-docs/content/main-concepts/metadata-standard/schemas/entity/data/glossaryTerm.md

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glossaryTerm	/main-concepts/metadata-standard/schemas/entity/data/glossaryterm

GlossaryTerm

This schema defines te Glossary term entities.

Properties

• id: Unique identifier of a glossary term instance. Refer to ../../type/basic.json#/definitions/uuid.
• name: Preferred name for the glossary term. Refer to #/definitions/name.
• displayName (string): Display Name that identifies this glossary.
• description: Description of the glossary term. Refer to ../../type/basic.json#/definitions/markdown.
• fullyQualifiedName: A unique name that identifies a glossary term. It captures name hierarchy of glossary of terms in the form of glossaryName.parentTerm.childTerm. Refer to ../../type/basic.json#/definitions/fullyQualifiedEntityName.
• synonyms (array): Alternate names that are synonyms or near-synonyms for the glossary term.
  • Items: Refer to #/definitions/name.
• glossary: Glossary that this term belongs to. Refer to ../../type/entityReference.json.
• parent: Parent glossary term that this term is child of. When null this term is the root term of the glossary. Refer to ../../type/entityReference.json.
• children: Other glossary terms that are children of this glossary term. Refer to ../../type/entityReference.json#/definitions/entityReferenceList.
• relatedTerms: Other glossary terms that are related to this glossary term. Refer to ../../type/entityReference.json#/definitions/entityReferenceList.
• references (array): Link to a reference from an external glossary.
  • Items: Refer to ../../entity/data/glossaryTerm.json#/definitions/termReference.
• version: Metadata version of the entity. Refer to ../../type/entityHistory.json#/definitions/entityVersion.
• updatedAt: Last update time corresponding to the new version of the entity in Unix epoch time milliseconds. Refer to ../../type/basic.json#/definitions/timestamp.
• updatedBy (string): User who made the update.
• href: Link to the resource corresponding to this entity. Refer to ../../type/basic.json#/definitions/href.
• reviewers: User names of the reviewers for this glossary. Refer to ../../type/entityReference.json#/definitions/entityReferenceList.
• usageCount (integer): Count of how many times this and it's children glossary terms are used as labels.
• tags (array): Tags associated with this glossary term. These tags captures relationship of a glossary term with a tag automatically. As an example a glossary term 'User.PhoneNumber' might have an associated tag 'PII.Sensitive'. When 'User.Address' is used to label a column in a table, 'PII.Sensitive' label is also applied automatically due to Associated tag relationship. Default: None.
  • Items: Refer to ../../type/tagLabel.json.
• changeDescription: Change that lead to this version of the entity. Refer to ../../type/entityHistory.json#/definitions/changeDescription.
• status: Status of the glossary term. Refer to #/definitions/status.
• deleted (boolean): When true indicates the entity has been soft deleted. Default: False.

Definitions

• name: Name that identifies a glossary term. Refer to ../../type/basic.json#/definitions/entityName.
• termReference (object): Cannot contain additional properties.
  • name (string): Name that identifies the source of an external glossary term. Example HealthCare.gov.
  • endpoint (string): Name that identifies the source of an external glossary term. Example HealthCare.gov.
• status (string): Must be one of: ['Draft', 'Approved', 'Deprecated']. Default: Draft.

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