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Concept help - Glossary Item

A Glossary Item records a business term that is commonly used within the metadata registry. A collection of Glossary Items is commonly referred to as a business glossary.

Fields available on this metadata type

Field ISO definition and Registry Help (where available)
Name The primary name used for human identification purposes.
Definition Representation of a concept by a descriptive statement which serves to differentiate it from related concepts. (3.2.39)
Target Stewardship Organisation Stewardship Organisation the user selected when they create the item, which is where they wanted to item to end up in.
Is Federated
Is Not Federable
Version Unique version identifier of this metadata item.
References Significant documents that contributed to the development of the metadata item which were not the direct source for the metadata content.

Citations in Metadata.NSW should be formatted in the author-date style, as detailed in the Australian Government Style Manual

Please note that Metadata.NSW includes the full URL in angle brackets in citations for accessibility purposes.

Structures for common resource types include:
 
Entire website
  • Structure: 
    Author A (Year) Name of website, Short URL [optional], accessed Day Month Year. <url>
  • Example:
    APSC (Australian Public Service Commission) (2021) Australian Government Style Manual, stylemanual.gov.au, accessed 3 October 2021. <https://www.stylemanual.gov.au/>
Webpage written by an organisation
Webpage with authors listed
Online document
  • Structure: 
    Author A (Year) Title of document, Organisation Name or Name of Website, accessed Day Month Year. <url>
  • Example:
    Western Australian Government (n.d.) Island guide, Rottnest Island, accessed 31 December 2019.<https://www.rottnestisland.com/visit/guides-tips>

 

For more information and additional formats, see the Australian Government Style Manual, ‘Author-date’.

Origin The source (e.g. document, project, discipline or model) for the item (8.1.2.2.3.5)
Comments Descriptive comments about the metadata item (8.1.2.2.3.4)
Deleted The date after which the item has been soft deleted and is no longer visible in the registry

Official Definition

A glossary item is a definition for a reusable term