Data Concept asset type

A Data Concept asset is a high-level theoretical representation of your data and describes one aspect of one or more data domains.

Example Address, Name, ID number, Phone number, Price, Year

Data Concept assets represent the most common concepts that are used to organize database content. They allow users to define a context-independent representation of the structure of an organization's data.
They are the most granular level of context-independent structure users can establish within the conceptual data layer.

Data Concept assets are comparable to columns in the physical data layer, and Data Entity assets in the logical data layer.

Example 

If you have a Data Concept asset for Address, then this might correspond to a Data Entity asset for Customer Address, Supplier Address and Employee Address.

Key relation types

Data Concept assets are:

Related to...

Via the relation type...

Description
Data Domain assets Business Asset groups / grouped by Business Asset

Many-to-many relation, whereby:

  • A Data Concept asset can be grouped by many Data Domain assets.
  • A Data Domain asset can group many Data Concept assets.

Other Data Concept assets

Business Asset groups / grouped by Business Asset

Many-to-many relation, whereby:

  • A Data Concept asset can group, and be grouped by, many Data Concept assets.
Data Attribute assets Business Dimension classifies / is classified by Asset

Many-to-one relation, whereby:

  • A Data Concept asset can classify many Data Attribute assets.
  • A Data Attribute asset can be classified by only one Data Concept asset.