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migration and adapt “cold turkey” to the terms used in the new system. One way
this can be done is to provide a list of the old terms with a reference to the pre-
ferred term next to each legacy term. Controlled vocabularies have both human
and machine utility, but they are very simple in terms of elucidating meaning.
11.4.2 Glossary
One major building block of good codified semantics is a good dictionary. Dave
Hollander of Contivo, a semantic integration tool vendor, stresses that a good
definition takes a lot of work to create, and it should be “set complete.” This
hearkens back to set theory, in which a set is “complete” when it is well- ...