Maintain a personal glossary term

Core meaning

Capability purpose

Give people and agents a shared, durable interpretation of vocabulary whose local meaning matters.

Meaningful outcome

A governed term can be resolved and interpreted consistently while preserving aliases and history.

Boundaries — includes

candidate review, definition, aliases, relationships, status, revision, merge, and deprecation.

Boundaries — excludes

general dictionary capture, item labeling, automatic acceptance of extracted terms, and access control.

Terms and concepts

term maps where useful to DefinedTerm from Schema.org; personal meaning remains authoritative over an external vocabulary mapping.

Interaction Contract MLEs

Establish or revise a term

Actor

The owner or an explicitly governed knowledge-maintenance process.

Command / intent

Create, correct, merge, or deprecate a personal glossary term.

Current state

A candidate or existing term and its evidence are available.

Policies / invariants

Stable identity and provenance are preserved; aliases do not silently create separate meanings; model-detected candidates require governed promotion; external standards are mappings, not masters.

Transition

Validate authority and duplicates, apply the lifecycle change, retain prior identity/revision links, and update relationships.

Result

A traceable candidate, active, merged, or deprecated term, or a reasoned rejection.

Events / effects

Retrieval and knowledge compilation may use active terms and aliases.

Unknowns

Universal merge-conflict resolution is not established.

Rules and defaults

Rules / invariants

• Do not promote every mention into a durable term.
• Preserve owner-specific nuance and source evidence.

Recommended defaults

• Start with stable IDs, plain-language definitions, aliases, status, and relationships.

Unknown / unresolved

• No public operational realization is confirmed.

Statement provenance