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A conceptual schema or conceptual data model is a map of concepts and their relationships. This describes the semantics of an organization and represents a series of assertions about its nature. Specifically, it describes the things of significance to an organization (entity classes), about which it is inclined to collect information, and characteristics of (attributes) and associations between pairs of those things of significance (relationships) <ref name="wiki"> [wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_model]</ref>.
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{{quote-diesis|A conceptual schema or conceptual data model is a map of concepts and their relationships. This describes the semantics of an organization and represents a series of assertions about its nature. Specifically, it describes the things of significance to an organization (entity classes), about which it is inclined to collect information, and characteristics of (attributes) and associations between pairs of those things of significance (relationships) <ref name="wiki"> [wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_model]</ref>.}}
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Revision as of 10:16, 10 June 2014


Definitions

European Definitions

DIESIS project

The DIESIS project [1] gives the following definition:

A conceptual schema or conceptual data model is a map of concepts and their relationships. This describes the semantics of an organization and represents a series of assertions about its nature. Specifically, it describes the things of significance to an organization (entity classes), about which it is inclined to collect information, and characteristics of (attributes) and associations between pairs of those things of significance (relationships) [2].


Other International Definitions

United Nations’ Definition

National Definitions

Standard Definition

Discussion Topic

See also

Notes

References