This article provides an outline of the Discovery information modelling language, used to provide a computable and readable information model.

The language is a single language but can be caregorised into the Discovery ontology language and a set of language elements that describe the data model, value sets and data sets

Ontology language

An ontology is concerned with the meaning of things and defines the meaning of things in a way that allows inferences to be made about other things. An ontology designed with a language such as OWL2 allows machines to make the sophisticated inferences required to support query and decision support.