A Last Resort: Developing a Local Vocabulary

Do you need to develop your own controlled vocabularyA managed list of terms. In the context of vocabularies, management typically includes careful selection of terms, maintenance of terms over time (i.e. addition, deprecation, modification), and presentation of the vocabulary in an accessible format. Related Guide? If you do, then you should be considering how you are going to define the terms and whether or not this is for legacy data. See the sections below for details.

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