5.3. Registering in Multiple Contracts and Vocabularies

One might ask whether it is possible for a service to register in more than one vocabulary or abide by multiple contracts. The practical or real-world answer to that is yes! It is not uncommon in the real world to see this. You would find the need for using multiple vocabularies when your product or service caters to different audiences. For example, you would use a different set of words (vocabulary) to describe a computer, depending on whether you are talking to a home consumer or a graphic designer.

The need to comply by multiple contracts arises when an organization or product provides different levels and kinds of services for different audiences. For example, a international manufacturing ...

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