Lexicon Conventions

Use Case

The Lexicon model establishes a useful way of linking the GCIS to external databases, such as the Research Organization Registry (ROR), the CEOS database, and data.gov. This way, relevant information aggregated in an external database could be efficiently catalogued in the GCIS with useful tags (contexts).

Field Conventions

Field	Description
title	The name of the lexicon (external database)
identifier	A brief descriptive identifier for the lexicon
description	A description of the lexicon, possibly including the organization associated with it.
description attribution	The URL which contains the description of this lexicon given in the description field.
url	A url to the home page of an external database.

Provenance Conventions:

• None

Relationship Conventions:

Contexts:

• Tags or keywords to delineate the type of aggregated information associated with each lexicon.