E-ARK glossary

Administration to Business Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Administration to Citizen Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Architectural Building Block in CEF Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

As defined in the Handbook, access is assumed to mean continued, ongoing usability of a digital resource, retaining all qualities of authenticity, accuracy and functionality deemed to be essential for the purposes the digital material was created and/or acquired for. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

A software program or document that allows Consumers to locate, analyse, order or retrieve information from an OAIS.

Alternative Dispute Resolution Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Archaeology Data Service. A UK based service active in digital preservation. http://ads.ahds.ac.uk; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Asynchronous JavaScript and JSON A group of interrelated web development techniques used on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML A set of web development techniques using many web technologies on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Agile Modeling Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Architecture Board Meeting Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Association of Moving Image Archives, an organisation active in the field of moving image archiving. http://www.amianet.org; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Access Point An Access Point is defined as an implementation of the AS4 data exchange protocol. In particular, the profile of AS4 developed by eSENS and now maintained by the CEF eDelivery Building Block:  eDelivery AS4 The Access Point must comply with this profile because several options of the original technical specifications were narrowed down in order to increase consistency, interoperability and to simplify deployment. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

An open source services framework. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Application Programming Interface A set of routines, protocols and tools for building software applications. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Container format for websites devised by the Internet Archive, superseded by WARC. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

An Information Package, consisting of the Content Information and the associated Preservation Description Information (PDI), which is preserved within an OAIS.

Archival Information System: It consists of several modules that support individual phases of processing Information Packages or parts of them in the archival environment (e.g. submission module, cataloguing module, ordering module, digital storage module, access module). The number of modules, their features and relationships depend on the local implementation.

“Materials created or received by a person, family, or organization, public or private, in the conduct of their affairs and preserved because of the enduring value contained in the information they contain or as evidence of the functions and responsibilities of their creator, especially those materials maintained using the principles of provenance, original order, and collective control https://www2.archivists.org/glossary/terms/a/archives.”

Applicability Statement 1 Based on SMTP and S/MIME. It was the first AS protocol developed, implementing signing, encryption and MDN conventions. Files are encoded as attachments in a standardised S/MIME message (an AS1 message). Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Applicability Statement 2 The AS2 profile of eDelivery is based on Applicability Statement 2. AS2 was chosen by PEPPOL because of its popularity among EDI Service Providers. Files are encoded as attachments in a standardised S/MIME message (an AS2 message). Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Applicability Statement 3 A standard by which vendor applications communicate over the internet using FTP. AS3 is an EDI protocol. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Applicability Statement 4 The AS4 profile of eDelivery is the AS4 Usage Profile defined by eSENS based on the AS4 Profile of ebMS3 OASIS Standard. AS4 itself is based on other standards, in particular on OASIS ebXML Messaging Services, which in turn is based on various Web Service specifications. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

American Standard Code for Information Interchange, standard for electronic text. https;//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Helps a party to determine, with some level of certainty, that an electronic credential representing an entity (human or a machine) with which it interacts to effect a transaction, can be trusted to actually belong to the entity. There are three levels - 'Low', 'Substantial' and 'High'. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Automated Translation CEF building block to allow European and national public administrations to exchange information across language barriers in the EU. The main purpose of AT is to make all DSIs multilingual. For example, users of an e-Procurement system or the Open Data Portal will be able to access information and communicate with their counterparts using their own language. While AT is mainly intended to be integrated into other digital services, it also offers useful stand-alone services for translating documents or snippets of text. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Each message will be delivered to the Application Destination at most once. It's possible that a Message will not be delivered to the Application Destination at all, but the Application Destination will never get duplicate messages. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

A mechanism which attempts to establish the authenticity of digital materials at a particular point in time. For example, digital signatures. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

The degree to which a person (or system) regards an object as what it is purported to be. Authenticity is judged on the basis of evidence.