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					  Who is the Data Steward?					 
					
					 The main contact for questions and issues related to the quality of data and data domains. 
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					  What is a Data Taxonomy?					 
					
					 A classification of data into categories and sub-categories. 
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					  What is an ontology?					 
					
					 A type of taxonomy that represents a set of concepts and their relationships within a domain. 
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					  What is a Data Attribute?					 
					
					 A specific piece of the data model used to describe a data entity. 
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					  What is a Folksonomy?					 
					
					 A classification system where users apply tags to items to aid in searching. 
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					  What is a Class?					 
					
					 The representation of a concept in an ontology. 
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					  What is What is Business Intelligence (BI)?					 
					
					 Practices and tools that enable access to and analysis of information to improve and optimize decisions and performance. 
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					  What is a Concept Name?					 
					
					 An object that identifies topics that can be used to categorizes topics. 
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					  What is W3C Web Ontology Language (OWL)?					 
					
					 A semantic web language designed to represent rich and complex knowledge about things, groups of things, and relations between things. 
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					  What is a Data Warehouse?					 
					
					 An integrated, centralized decision-support database that stores cleansed and standardized data from a variety of operational sources to support analysis and reporting. 
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					  What are Content (or Data) Models?					 
					
					 Descriptions of different types of content, the information they contain, how they are linked, and what metadata applies to them. 
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					  What are the five elements (5-tuples) of ontology?					 
					
					 Concepts, relationships, functions, instances, and axioms 
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					  What is Portfolio Management?					 
					
					 A technique used to identify and advocate for the business value and return-on-investment from data and information system and TAM investments. 
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					  Who is Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus?					 
					
					 Regarded as the founder of the system of taxonomy. 
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					  What is Ontology-Based Data Management?					 
					
					 A vision for data integration enabling logic-based language to craft an ontology replacing source schemas of the application domain. 
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