Enterprise Glossary
The Enterprise Glossary is your workspace’s shared vocabulary. It captures the business and technical terms that appear across your model (what each term means, how it is used, and where it has been seen) so everyone works from the same definitions.
You reach it from the Repository as the Enterprise Glossary tab.
What You Will Find
Section titled “What You Will Find”For each term, the glossary records:
- Term: The name of the concept (e.g., “Settlement”, “Tenant”).
- Definition: A short explanation of what the term means.
- Aliases: Alternative names the same concept goes by.
- Source: Where the term was first seen, with an expandable list of every workstream or connector run that has referenced it, and when it was first seen.
How Terms Get There
Section titled “How Terms Get There”Terms are surfaced automatically as ArchNGN processes your inputs. When a workstream analyses a document or a connector syncs an external system, the terminology it encounters is captured and attributed back to that run, so the glossary grows as you work rather than needing to be written by hand.
When to Use It
Section titled “When to Use It”- Onboarding: Get up to speed on the vocabulary of an unfamiliar domain.
- Consistency: Confirm the agreed meaning of a term before using it in a design or report.
- Traceability: See which jobs and connectors first introduced a term and when.
Managing the Glossary
Section titled “Managing the Glossary”- Search: Find terms by name, definition, alias, or notes.
- Filter: Narrow by source type (workstream or connector).
- Delete: Remove individual terms, or select several and delete in bulk.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Repository: the broader view that hosts the Enterprise Glossary tab.
- Metamodel: the schema (categories, types, relationships) that objects use; distinct from the term glossary.