Ly2defined
Ly2defined is a metadata framework and specification designed to help organizations formalize natural-language terms into machine-interpretable definitions. It provides a lightweight approach to link labels in glossaries, catalogs, and ontologies to explicit definitions, relationships, and provenance, enabling more consistent interpretation across systems.
The concept emerged from collaborations among data-governance and semantic-web communities in the late 2010s. The aim
Structure and content of a Ly2defined entry include fields such as id, label, definition, synonyms, scope notes,
Implementation and tooling include a validator, a converter to JSON-LD, and a sample generator for glossaries.
Applications and reception: Ly2defined is used in university projects, corporate data catalogs, and knowledge-graph initiatives to
See also: SKOS, RDF, JSON-LD, OWL, terminology management. Official documentation is maintained by the Ly2defined Consortium.