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Terminology and Vocabulary Management Solutions

Vocabulary Management Group’s Lexaurus product suite introduces a powerful yet cost-effective approach to handling overwhelming quantities of business critical information. Structured vocabularies define classification terms to improve the discovery and re-use of content within and across organisations. Business processes are supported through collaborative information sharing and well-informed decision making, and customer-centric, on-line content interactions are enriched.

Based on an open, standards-based architecture that supports industry leading formats, Lexaurus is simple to use and scalable to deploy.

What are Controlled Vocabularies?

Controlling Vocabularies

Terminology standardisation is central to every effective information management strategy. Controlled vocabularies consolidate standardised terms into a structure that reflects existing business activities, processes and resources. Defined terms are used to give precise categorisation to individual documents, records and other unstructured content, thereby avoiding ambiguity and supporting corporate understanding. The accurate classification of information assets against structured data can substantially enhance the findability and usability of their content, whether by staff members, external content consumers or systems to which they are linked.

Managing Metadata

Controlled vocabularies underpin effective metadata management. Content discovery is achieved by mapping relationships between differing terms and content held in multiple repositories, and then connecting topics, activities and resources relevant to the subject of the search. When metadata is used consistently across diverse systems in multi-department or global organisations, and between related business entities, the constraints of separate data silos are overcome.  Systems, documents and knowledge are inter-linked with structured search data, facilitating intelligent system interoperability through cohesive semantic interpretation.

Constructing Vocabularies

Terminology creation is no longer a task for taxonomists and information professionals alone; the active participation of subject matter experts, linguists and CMS implementers is often required as well. Read more...

Vocabulary Management

Centralised management of vocabularies enables users within an organisation, or those across an entire industry sector, to identify and view definitive terms... Read more...

Integrated Terminology Services

Lexaurus Bank provides standards-based, web service systems integration that enables synchronisation of approved terminologies across multiple systems, with dynamic updates of classification changes as they occur... Read more...