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C1

Corner 1 in the Four-Corner Model. An end entity which exchanges messages with the other end entity (C4) via Access Point intermediaries (C2 and C3). Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

C2

Corner 2 in the Four-Corner Model. An Access Point intermediary which via Access Point intermediaries C3 facilitates the exchange of messages from its end entity (C1) with the other end entity (C4). Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

C2A

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

C2B 

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

C2C

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

C3

Corner 3 in the Four-Corner Model. An Access Point intermediary which via Access Point intermediaries C2 facilitates the exchange of messages from its end entity (C4) with the other end entity (C1). Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

C4

Corner 4 in the Four-Corner Model. An end entity which exchanges messages with the other end entity (C1) via Access Point intermediaries (C2 and C3). Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CA

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

Capability Lookup

An ABB which offers a technical service to accommodate a dynamic and flexible interoperability community. A capability lookup can provide metadata about the communication partner’s interoperability capabilities on all levels defined in the EIF (Legall, Organisational, Process, Semantic and Technical interoperability levels). The metadata can be used to dynamically set interoperability parameters and ambitions between the sender and receiver.  Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Catalogue

A type of Access Aid that allows a user to search for and identify Information Packages of interest.

CCSDS

Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, the body responsible for the OAIS Reference Model. http://public.ccsds.org/default.aspx; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

CEF

Connecting Europe Facility Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CEF AO

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

CEF.AT

A platform funded by CEF to be the core building block used by CEF DSIs for operating in a multilingual way. It includes Machine Translation as a service it offers. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CEG

Common Entry Gate See EU-CEG. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CEN

European Committee for Standardisation Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Chain of Custody

A key concept in forensics whereby the custody and provenance of digital hardware, media and files are safeguarded through, for example, the appointment of evidence custodians. The purpose of the Digital Evidence Bag (DEB) is to hold digitally, along with the evidential digital objects, provenance metadata that can be updated as required; a concept that is familiar to digital preservation practitioners.; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Checksum

A unique numerical signature dreived from a file. Used to compare copies. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

CIP

Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CIPA

Common Infrastructure for Public Administrations Provides a generic solution for public administrations to exchange documents in a secure and reliable way Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CLIR

Council on Library and Information Resources. US based organisation active in digital preservation. http://www.clir.org; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

CNI

Coalition for Networked Information. US based organisation active in digital preservation. http://www.cni.org; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

COD

Component Offering Description Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Component

A part of a record that represents a discrete item of content. For completeness a record including all its components and their content must be managed atomically.

CONNECT (DG)

European Commission's Directorate-General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Continuing Access

refers to the right of a subscriber to an electronic publication and their users to have on-going permanent access to electronic materials which have already been leased and paid for by the subscriber from a publisher. It is a term used, along with its synonyms perpetual access and post-cancellation access, in the information industry to describe the ability to retain access to electronic materials by the subscriber/licensee after the contractual licensing agreement with the publisher/licensor for those materials has ended, whatever the reason for the cessation. It may also cover as appropriate arrangements for digital preservation needed to guarantee some elements of continuing access. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

COPTR

Community Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry hosted by The Open Preservation Foundation. http://coptr.digipres.org; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Corpora

Large and structured sets of text or speech audio files used in linguistic Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

COTS

The term Commercial off-the-shelf product (hardware or software) refers to readily available products that can be acquired from the market (instead of being developed in-house) Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CPA

Collaboration Protocol Agreement Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Crawl

The act of browsing the web automatically and methodically to index or download content and other data from the web. The software to do this is often called a web crawler. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

CRL

Certificate Revocation List Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CS

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

CSAD

Component Software Architecture Document Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CSP

Certification Service Provider  Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary