Ontology
Define how your knowledge is structured and improve it safely with drafts.
The ontology is the blueprint of your knowledge base. It describes the types of things your organisation cares about, such as contracts, people or invoices, and what you record about each one. SynkVault uses it to decide how documents are read, what is extracted from them and how records are stored.
The building blocks
| Term | What it means |
|---|---|
| Node | A type of thing, for example invoice. Nodes form a tree. A node can have a parent. |
| Property | A fact you record about a node, such as a date, a number or a link to another node. |
| Relationship | A property that points to another node, so records can be connected. |
| Reference | A reusable set of properties or values that several nodes can share. |
A child node inherits the properties of its parent and of every ancestor above it. You only define a property once, on the highest node where it makes sense.
The ontology pages are for Owners and Admins. Members with the User role do not see them in the menu.
What you will find in this section
Where to find it
Open Ontology in the sidebar. It has four entries: Editor, References, Management and History.