A minimal toolkit of SBVR vocabulary concepts
This section of USoft Community presents a carefully selected, small but powerful toolkit of SBVR concepts that you can use to model a business vocabulary for the benefit of a USoft project.
SBVR is an extensive specification. It presents hundreds of concepts in a document that contains hundreds of pages. The USoft toolkit contains just 11 concepts. Go to www.omg.org for a free copy of the official SBVR specification.
Here are the names of the 11 concepts that USoft practitioners use most often:
| Noun concepts | Roles |
| Nominalisations | |
| Binary verb concepts | |
| Unary verb concepts | |
| N-ary verb concepts | Synonyms |
| Categories | |
| Segmentations | |
| Individual concepts | |
| Examples, instances |
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As we will see, even in this minimal toolkit, some concepts are much more central than others.
Noun concepts and binary verb concepts are absolutely crucial: you need to know how to model these yourself. The same is probably true for categories.
Other concepts must be part of your repertoire simply because they help you understand it. Even if you don't create explicit Individual concepts, Examples or Roles all the time, understanding what they are provides background knowledge that you really need in order to understand the modelling system as a whole.