E-ARK glossary

e-Justice domain enabling citizens and businesses to have cross-border access of legal means in Europe. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Electronic Simple European Networked Services Large-scale pilot project with the aim of consolidating, improving, and extending technical solutions based around the building block DSIs to foster digital interaction with public administrations across the EU. It improves the cross-border access of citizens and businesses in the different areas of eGovernment. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Encoded Archival Description. A non-proprietary de facto standard for the encoding of finding aids for use in a networked (online) environment. Finding aids are inventories, indexes, or guides that are created by archival and manuscript repositories to provide information about specific collections. While the finding aids may vary somewhat in style, their common purpose is to provide detailed description of the content and intellectual organization of collections of archival materials. EAD allows the standardization of collection information in finding aids within and across repositories.

ebXML Business Process Specification Schema Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

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

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

European Blockchain Services Infrastructure  Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Electronic Business XML Project to use XML to standardise the secure exchange of business data. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

A platform for developing software applications. It can be downloaded at http://www.eclipse.org/ Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

European Computer Manufacturers Association Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

European Central Platform Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CEF building block to allow public administrations to exchange electronic data and documents with other public administrations, businesses and citizens, in an interoperable, secure, reliable and trusted way. eDelivery is based on the concept of a four corner model, where the end entities (corners one and four) exchange messages via Access Point intermediaries (corners two and three). eDelivery standardises the communication only between these Access Point intermediaries. Communication between Access Points and end entities may use any communication protocol. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Electronic Data Interchange The transfer of data from one computer system to another by standardised message formatting, without the need for human intervention. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce and Transport Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Electronic Data Interchange Gas EDIG@s is an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standard for the buying, selling, transporting and storage of gas. It is an official subset of the UN EDIFACT standard. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Electronic Data Interchange-Internet Integration Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

European Economic Area Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information. EESSI is owned by DG EMPL. It aims at improving the cross border communication between the national social security institutions of 32 countries (EU+EFTA Member States), by introducing an electronic communication platform for efficient exchange of information Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

electronic Identification CEF building block to allow public administrations and businesses to easily extend the use of their online services to citizens from other EU Member States. It allows cross-border authentication, in a secure, reliable and trusted way, by making existing national electronic identification systems interoperable. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Electronic Identification and Trust Services => eID and eTS eID and eTS are key enablers for secure cross-border electronic transactions and central building blocks of the Digital Single Market. The eIDAS Regulation does the following: Ensures that people and businesses can use their own national eID schemes to access public services in other EU countries where eIDs are available. Creates a European internal market for eTS by ensuring it works across borders and has the same legal status as traditional paper based processes. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

European Interoperability Framework Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CEF building block to allow public administrations to implement electronic invoicing in compliance with the eInvoicing Directive of the European Parliament and the Council. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Records created digitally in the day-to-day business of the organisation and assigned formal status by the organisation. They may include for example, word processing documents, emails, databases, or intranet web pages. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Electronic Records Management System is a type of content management system for managing electronic records.

European Language Resource Coordination. Manages, maintains and coordinates the relevant language resources in all official languages of the EU and CEF associated countries. Is the brand name given to SMART 2015 1091 Lot 2 selected tender Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

European Commission's Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

A means of overcoming technological obsolescence of hardware and software by developing techniques for imitating obsolete systems on future generations of computers. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

A party which receives messages is an endpoint. While it's theoretically possible that a party was never an endpoint, this would mean that that party never received a message from any other party. Therefore, in practice, each party is always an endpoint for one or more other parties. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

European Payment Order Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Electronic Registered Delivery Service Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

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

A widespread legal practice of the deposit of content or software source code with a third party. Escrow takes place in a contractual relationship, formalized in an escrow agreement, between at least three parties; the provider, the customer, and the third party providing the escrow service.; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

CEF building block to allow public administrations and businesses to accelerate the creation and verification of electronic signatures. The introduction of eSignature serves to significantly reduce the time required to conduct business and legal transactions, whilst also reducing the use of paper documents and therefore contributing to the sustainable economy Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

eCom Technology Group Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

electronic Trust Services electronic signatures electronic seals time stamp electronic delivery service website authentication By providing certainty on the legal validity of all these services, eTS seeks to ensure that businesses and citizens will use digital interaction as their natural way of conducting their affairs. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

European Telecommunications Standards Institute Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

The committee dealing with digital signatures (signature format, certificates, CSPs, trusted list) and ancillary services (Registered e-mail, Registered e-delivery, Time-Stamping, Long-term data preservation). Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

European Common Entry Gate Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Enterprise Unified Process Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

"DGT’s internal translation memory database; complement definition with DGT's input if needed. A clone of DGT’s internal translation memory database, Euramis also exists; complement definition with DGT's input if needed" Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Earned Value Management aka EVPM Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Earned Value Project/Performance Management aka EVM Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary