A Data Concept asset is a high-level theoretical representation of your data and describes one aspect of one or more data domains. These 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, and are comparable to columns in the physical data layer.
Example Address, Name, ID number, Phone number, Price, Year
For example, if you have a Data Concept asset for Address then this might correlate to a Data Entity asset for Customer Address, Supplier Address and Employee Address.
Key relation types
Data Concept assets are:
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Related to... |
Via the relation type... |
Description |
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| Data Domain assets | Business Asset groups / grouped by Business Asset |
Many-to-many relation, whereby:
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Other Data Concept assets |
Business Asset groups / grouped by Business Asset |
Many-to-many relation, whereby:
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| Data Attribute assets | Business Dimension classifies / is classified by Asset |
Many-to-one relation, whereby:
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