Adding New Terms
- Identify redundant terms
- Put new terms into existing classes
- Create new classes where appropriate
To further simplify the discussion, I will consider that the bulk addition process and the continuous maintenance process are essentially "term addition" tasks (although different methods are used for each). When adding a term, we first want to be sure that it does not exist. If not, then it can be added - and it needs to be added to all appropriate classes. Sometimes a new term is similar enough to an old term that we will want to create anew class to subsume them both.