HRG Entry

An HRG Entry is a specific kind of (human-readable) rendering of the combination of a term and a means that helps readers to understand the meaning of that term when it is used in a sentence.

The way in which a term is rendered depends on how the HRGT is called. Specifically, a term that is defined as a synonymOf another term may be rendered in a way that differs from the way in which terms are rendered that are not a synonymOf some other term. Details are provided in the HRGT specs.

The terminology pattern provides an overview of how this concept fits in with related concepts.

The HRGT specs document how HRG entries are selected (and manipulated) for the construction of a particular HRG. They also document how terms are rendered that are, and those that are not synonyms of some other term (there may be differences between them).

Purpose

HRG entries provide a specific kind of(human-readable) rendering for the combination of a term and a means that helps readers to understand the meaning of that term when it is used in a sentence, thus facilitating the reader's understanding of the term in the way that the author intended.

As an example, consider a terms-community that would like to have an overview of all terms that it uses in a human readable way, and decides it needs a (human readable) glossary of these terms. Thus, they need a tool that knows how to find all these terms and their definitions, and (after sorting them) render them into some human readable form. This tool would look for the MRG for that terminology, which contains the MRG entries that contain all data that the tool needs.

As the number of tools that need (meta) data about terms grows, MRG entries will be expected to cater for such needs.