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TC

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

TDD

Test-Driven Development Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

TDR

Trusted Digital Repository. A trusted digital repository has been defined as having ?Ç£a mission to provide reliable, long-term access to managed digital resources to its designated community, now and into the future?Ç¥. The TDR must include the following seven attributes; compliance with the reference model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS), administrative responsibility, organizational viability, financial sustainability, technological and procedural suitability, system security, and procedural accountability. The concept has been an important one particularly in relation to certification of digital repositories.; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Terabyte (TB)

A unit of digital information often used to describe data or data storage size, equates to approximately 1,000 Gigabytes (GB). Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Testing environment

A testing environment is a setup of software and hardware for the testing teams to execute test cases. In other words, it supports test execution with hardware, software and network configured. Test bed or test environment is configured as per the need of the Application Under Test. On a few occasion, test bed could be the combination of the test environment and the test data it operates. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Three-Legged Stool

A conceptual approach to digital preservation that suggests a fully implemented and viable preservation programme addresses organisational issues, technological concerns, and funding questions, balancing them like a three-legged stool. Developed as part of the Digital Preservation Management Workshop and Tutorial. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

TIFF

Tagged Image File Format, a common format for images typically lossless. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Image_File_Format; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

TLS

Transport Layer Security A protocol that ensures privacy and message integrity between communicating applications and their users on the internet. TLS is the successor to SSL. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

TO

Technical Office Responsible for components and software development. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

TPD

Tobacco Products Directive Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

TRAC

Trusted Repository Audit and Certification, toolkit for auditing a digital repository. http://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/d6/attachments/pages/trac_0.pdf; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Trigger Event

This terminology is used when specific conditions relating to an electronic publication and its continued delivery to users are met. If the publication is no longer available to users from the publisher or any other source for a variety of reasons then a trigger event is said to have occurred. They can set in motion access for users via an archive where the electronic publication may be digitally preserved. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

TSO

Transmission System Operators ENTSOG is one such TSO. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary