Metrology
Metrology
How the International Vocabulary of Metrology (VIM) and OIML V 2-200 use Glossarist to maintain partitive and generic hyperedges across four language editions, with multidimensional decompositions of measurement standard.
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Real-world
terminology work.
How standards bodies, scientific unions, and regulatory agencies use Glossarist to maintain multi-language concept systems — covering the metrology, geospatial, and chemistry communities.
Geospatial
Geospatial
How the geospatial community uses Glossarist to maintain the ISO 19135 register of geographic terms and cross-vocabulary concept equivalences across OGC, ISO/TC 211, and FAO.
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Chemistry
How IUPAC uses Glossarist to maintain color nomenclature, gold book terms, and cross-language chemistry vocabularies with strict designations and appellations.
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Standards Bodies
Cross-cutting view of how international standards bodies use Glossarist across multiple vocabularies: ISO/TC 211 (Geolexica), ISO/TC 204 (ITS), OIML (VIML), IALA, OSGeo, and more.
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Glossarist powers terminology work for standards bodies, scientific unions, and regulatory agencies worldwide. The use cases below document real-world deployments — the problems they solve, the Glossarist patterns they use, and the measurable improvements they’ve seen.
Metrology — VIM and OIML V 2-200
The International Vocabulary of Metrology and OIML’s legal-metrology companion. Six-criterion multidimensional decompositions of measurement standard; cross-edition supersedes chains across four VIM editions; ExternalConcept for parenthetical terms resolved from VIM to OIML.
Geospatial — ISO 19135 and cross-vocabulary equivalences
ISO/TC 211, OGC, FAO, INSPIRE. SKOS mapping properties (exact_match, close_match, broad_match, narrow_match) for cross-vocabulary equivalence; ISO 19135 register lifecycle on every concept; UN-language coverage as a structural invariant.
Chemistry — IUPAC nomenclature
IUPAC Gold Book, Colour Index, nomenclature recommendations. Multiple designation types per concept (systematic + common + trade names + structural formulas); ISO 704:2022 §7 appellations for unique entities; designation lifecycle dating.
Common patterns across use cases
Multi-language coverage
Every use case above publishes in at least two languages. Glossarist’s localizations map makes this structural — one concept, multiple language entries, all sharing the same ManagedConcept identity. Translations don’t drift.
ISO 704 / 10241 / 12620 alignment
Every use case can publish ISO 10241-1-compliant terminological entries directly from Glossarist — see ISO 10241-1 Data Category Mapping for the field-by-field correspondence.
Concept-system types
Each use case fits into the ISO 704:2022 §5.6.3 typology — see Concept System Types. Metrology’s OIML 5.1 is generic + multidimensional + monohierarchical. Geospatial’s feature is generic + monodimensional + monohierarchical. Chemistry’s compound names are mostly associative (synonymy + equivalence).
Per-file n-ary relations
Every use case with multidimensional concept systems uses Glossarist’s per-file hyperedge storage at relations/<comprehensive-id>/<criterion-slug>.yaml — see Hyperedges. This pattern scales to dozens of criterion groups per comprehensive without file-size bloat or translator conflict.
Bring your use case
Building terminology infrastructure for a domain we haven’t covered? Glossarist is open-source and standards-aligned. See Adopting Glossarist for the getting-started guide, or open an issue to discuss your needs.