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Custom Configuration and Metadata

Optimise to Your Organisation’s Needs.

Coreon’s database is schema-less thus caters flexibly for the meta data requirements of your domain, your organisation. Whether you need only two properties like Definition and Status or several dozens of different descriptive and process related attributes, you define the layout of your data yourself.

Set up constraints to rate and highlight terms and to guarantee consistency throughout the whole repository.

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Flexibility

Quality

mandatory property validation

Consistency

Enforce Completeness

Make a property mandatory – for instance Definition – maintainers then cannot save unless the value is filled in.

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USABILITY

Visually Focus

Apply rating rules based on your custom meta data: highlight preferred terms whereas visually tone down the undesired ones.

Model your Domain: Set up properties, i.e. custom fields, by specifying a name, a data type, and provide optionally a default value. Coreon supports the following data types:

  • text
  • multi-line text
  • number
  • boolean
  • date
  • picklist
  • multivalue picklist
  • multimedia asset

How many properties (aka “fields” or “data categories”) can you have?

As many as your organization needs. Coreon’s database is schema-less, so you define the data model yourself, whether that’s just Definition and Status or several dozen descriptive and process-related data categories. Each so-called “property” can be text, multi-line text, number, boolean, date, picklist, multivalue picklist or a multimedia asset. You can make properties mandatory and use them in rating rules that highlight preferred terms and tone down undesired ones.

Does Coreon support assets other than images?

Most common are images as multimedia assets, rendered inline in the concept views. You can attach illustrations, diagrams or product photos to your concepts, so the visual explanation sits right next to the terminology. Other assets can also be stored.

What is a good starting point, which categories do you recommend?

Start small. A lean model gets filled in consistently, and Coreon’s schema-less database lets you add concept or term properties at any time. Apart from a “Comment” property, these cover the essentials for most organizations:

Per concept

  • Definition: What the concept means. Make it mandatory to keep quality high.
  • Image or Asset: Illustrate the meaning for ad-hoc users and visitors.

Per term

  • Usage status (picklist): Preferred, admitted or deprecated.
  • Region (picklist): If your business activities require to differentiate per region, such as French for France vs French for Canada or Portuguese for Portugal vs. Brazil. We can consult you on the best approach.
  • Part of Speech (picklist): Noun, verb, adjective etc.