Data categories can be characterized as:
1. concept-related
2. term-related, and
3. technical/administrative
- Concept-related data categories imply information on subject field, notation (information on concept system and relations), definition and illustration.
- Examples of term-related data categories are term (synonyms, abbreviations, ...), grammatical information (gender, part of speech), project code, client code, company code, text category, register, regional variant, definition, context, etc.
- Technical/Administrative data categories constitute for example date of creation or date of modification, author (terminologist / reviser), source, reference, code of reliability, remarks, comments, among others.
[ISO:12620 Data Categories]