Dictionaries and registries

The services below are to some extent similar to those proposed for the catalogues.

The data dictionaries and registries can be :
- International ones (Edifact, TDED, ebXML...)
- Sectorial ones (SWIFT for the banking environment, water data, building data, social data...)
- Dictionaries or registries of company or administration
The considered registries can be:
- registries of process (internal or of exchanged between actor)
- registries of objects or attributes used in modelling:
  - context
  - role
  - behaviour
  - event
  - constraint...

starting from a paper source
and/or of multiple electronic sources
analysis of these files (use of BSR semantic tool)
- comparison of these files
- harmonization, improvement, coding
- structuring and concatenation.

Mapping of dictionaries or registries
- For each entry of a dictionary or a registry, list of entries of the other dictionaries or registries having the same significance or an approximate significance (and not simply entries having the same code or the same name).
- Of course certain entries can not have any corresponding entry in the other dictionaries or registries.

analysis to remove any duplication (and/or to clarify the synonyms)
- not simply entries having the same code or the same name (search for identical character strings)
- but also those having the same significance or a close one
improvement of the entries description
- truncated words
- abbreviations
- acronyms...
- "self explanatory"...
structuring of the dictionary
- creation of a hierarchy (families, subfamilies...) and classification of the entries (for example by mapping with the classes and attributes of a data model)
" XMLisation " of the catalogue
- total or partial
- extraction, in XML, of components...
  - total or limited
  - extraction, in XML, of catalogue components...

The accesses to the catalogues are generally done by:
- key word (in the language of the dictionary or registry)
- and/or advance in a tree structure (family, subfamily...)
A complete alternative (or simply a complementary possibility) is the interrogation of the dictionaries or registries in "English or French natural language "
- the user expresses his research by words or by a sentence, the BSR tool indicates the entries "semantically close" to the question
  - not only entries having the same character strings
  - but also entries having the same significance or a close significance (classified by descending order)
- the question can be put in a language different from the dictionary or registry one (in French for English dictionaries or registries, or in English to question French ones)

Use of the BSR tool for the creation or the modification of entries:
- to avoid the duplication and to manage the synonyms
- proposal for a positioning of the new entry (or the modified entry) in the existing tree structure or the existing model
- mapping of the new entry with external dictionaries or registries