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wealth management until year 2000 while since 2000 private wealth management
became a separate business unit.
One concept to address these issues is terminology management. Terminology management
comprises the planning, steering, maintenance, and organization of terminology
[Auth 2003: 188-189; Kremer, Kolbe, Brenner 2003: 2-3; Lehmann 2001: 123].
“The resulting tools of terminology management are glossaries and taxonomies (classification
schemes) that serve as the foundation for search, navigation, storage, and
communication services between persons and/or systems” [Kremer, Kolbe, Brenner
2003: 3]. Core element of terminology management is the underlying data model to
specify terms in a consistent way [Auth 2003: 85-87; ISO 1999; Wegener, Auth 2002:
198-200].
8.3 Development of an Extension of a Terminological Data
Model
8.3.1 Existing Terminological Data Models
In literature only very few contributions to terminological data models exist. Our literature
review identified two, the data model of Swiss Re and the data model of the International
Organization of Standardization (ISO) [Auth 2003; ISO 1999; Wegener,
Auth 2002]. While the Swiss Re data model is a focused approach to align companywide
terminology, the latter represents a comprehensive collocation of more than 200
attributes that needs use-case-specific adaptation. Even it is possible to start from both
models to develop a specific data model for terminology management of analytical
information, this article will start from the Swiss Re data model due to the comparable
problem complexity and scope.
As detailed in section 8.2, the inherent quality of terminology management is directly
associated with the power of the underlying data model to solve the listed terminological
defects that lead to data inconsistencies that harm interpretability and comparability
of information. The Swiss Re data model has been designed with this target and has
been successfully tested within practice [Auth 2003; Wegener, Auth 2002]. Within the
Swiss Re data model a term is characterized by its name and its attributes as detailed in
Tab. 14.