{"id":867,"date":"2013-03-12T10:29:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T09:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.semicolon.no\/?p=867"},"modified":"2013-09-24T23:10:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T22:10:37","slug":"terminology-lifecycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.semicolon.no\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"Terminology lifecycle"},"content":{"rendered":"

There exists many documents and guidelines on terminology and concepts, both generally and specially. Semicolon have collated this documentation and tacit experiences from different departments into a holistic lifecycle process for concepts and terminology work.<\/p>\n

The illustration below describes Semicolons suggestion for a lifecycle process for concepts and terms with associated main processes. The process is iterative, since the terms will be in constant flux illustrated in main process #4 (Change management). Public government are mainly the organisation maintaining concept systems on a daily basis, howevere the concept systems are ususally developed in projects. When major revision of the concept systemss are necessary these could be managed in separate projects.<\/p>\n

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Figure – Concept system lifecycle<\/em><\/p>\n

This is a short description of the different processess, a more complete description is in the report (only in Norwegian):<\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. Develop<\/i>: Develop a representation of the concept systems. Validate and verify its relevance. Ask for stakeholder contributions. A government agency desides implementation of the concept system. The concept system is versioned and published.<\/li>\n
  2. Implement<\/i>: Plan for deployment and practical use. Deploy the concept system on technical-, organisationa- and usage-level, including training.<\/li>\n
  3. Governance<\/i>: Run the concept system on a technical level, maintain it on the organsiational level, realise the benefits.<\/li>\n
  4. Change management<\/i>: Identify changes, recommend changes, analyse and plan for the change. Consider the need to establish a separate project to make the change, or if the governing agency could manage. Implement the changes, govern the new concept systems.<\/li>\n
  5. Quality assurance<\/i>: The concept system must be quality assured during the whole lifecycle.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This process is extensively described by Vibeke Dalberg, Per Myrseth and Jim Yang in the document (in Norwegian): Lifecycle process for development and governance of concept systems<\/a>, february 2011. Visio concept model.<\/a><\/p>\n

    This lifecycle process are used and evaluated by many of the practical cases in the Semicolon project that are related to concept definitions.<\/p>\n