E-ARK glossary
This glossary is based on many existing glossaries and expert opinions. If a definition in the glossary is derived from an existing glossary the source is given.
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Digital Records See Electronic Records;;
Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary | |
Digital Resources See Digital Materials;;
Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary | |
Dim Archive provides bit preservation for the content plus digital preservation planning and actions for long-term perpetual access, and also limited current access (perhaps limited to on-site users or previous subscribers post-cancellation, etc.).
Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary | |
DIPDissemination Information Package | |
Dissemination Information Package (DIP)Dissemination Information Package: an Information Package, derived from one or more AIPs, and sent by Archives to the Consumer in response to a request to the OAIS.
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DLF Digital Library Federation. A US based organisation active in digital preservation. http://www.diglib.org;
Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary | |
DNNDeep Neural Net
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
DNSDomain Name System
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
DODeliver Operation
The Deliver Operation occurs at the endpoints and only once per message lifetime.
Any Actions performed by an intermediary will be defined in different terms.
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
DOI Digital Object Identifier. A technical and organisational infrastructure for the registration and use of persistent identifiers widely used in digital publications and for research data. The DOI system was created by the International DOI Foundation and was adopted as International Standard ISO 26324 in 2012. http://www.doi.org;
Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary | |
DomibusebMS3 Access Point based on the AS4 profile.
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
DPC Digital Preservation Coalition. A UK and Ireland based organisation active in digital preservation and responsible for the Digital Preservation Handbook. http://www.dpconline.org;
Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary | |
DPTP Digital Preservation Training Programme, an intensive training course run by the University of London Computer Centre. https;//dptp.london.ac.uk/;
Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary | |
DRAMBORA Digital Repository Audit Methodology Based on Risk Assessment. A set of risk assessment tools developed by the Digital Curation Centre. http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/repository-audit-and-assessment/drambora;
Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary | |
DROID A file profiling tool developed and distributed by TNA to identify file formats. Based on PRONOM. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/manage-information/policy-process/digital-continuity/file-profiling-tool-droid/;
Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary | |
DSIDigital Service Infrastructure
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
DSLDynamic Service Location
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
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e-CODEXe-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 | |
e-SENSElectronic 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 | |
EADEncoded 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.
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ebBPebXML Business Process Specification Schema
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
ebCoreebXML Core
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
ebMSebXML Messaging Service Specification
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
EBSIEuropean Blockchain Services Infrastructure
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
ebXMLElectronic 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 | |
EclipseA 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 | |
ECMAEuropean Computer Manufacturers Association
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
ECPEuropean Central Platform
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
eDeliveryCEF 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 | |
EDIElectronic 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 | |
EDIFACTElectronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce and Transport
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
EDIG@sElectronic 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 | |
EDIINTElectronic Data Interchange-Internet Integration
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
EEAEuropean Economic Area
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
EESSIElectronic 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 | |
eIDelectronic 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 | |
eIDASElectronic 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 | |
EIFEuropean Interoperability Framework
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
eInvoicingCEF 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 | |
Electronic Records 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 (ERMS)Electronic Records Management System is a type of content management system for managing electronic records.
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ELRCEuropean 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 | |
EMPL (DG)European Commission's Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
Emulation 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 | |
endpointA 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 | |
ENTSOGEuropean Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
EPOEuropean Payment Order
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
ERDSElectronic Registered Delivery Service
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
ESBEnterprise Service Bus
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
Escrow 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 | |
ESIElectronic Signatures and Infrastructures
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
eSignatureCEF 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 | |
eTGeCom Technology Group
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
eTSelectronic 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 | |
ETSIEuropean Telecommunications Standards Institute
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
ETSI ESIThe 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 | |
EU-CEGEuropean Common Entry Gate
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
EUPEnterprise Unified Process
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
EURAMIS"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 | |
EVMEarned Value Management
aka EVPM
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
EVPMEarned Value Project/Performance Management
aka EVM
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
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FIAF International Federation of Film Archives, an association of the world's leading film archives. http://www.fiafnet.org;
Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary | |
FIAT International Federation of Television Archives, a professional association for those engaged in the preservation and exploitation of broadcast archives. http://fiatifta.org;
Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary | |
File Format A file format is a standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. It tells the computer how to display, print, and process, and save the information. It is dictated by the application program which created the file, and the operating system under which it was created and stored. Some file formats are designed for very particular types of data, others can act as a container for different types. A particular file format is often indicated by a file name extension containing three or four letters that identify the format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_format;
Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary | |
Finding AidA type of Access Aid that allows a user to search for and identify Information Packages of interest.
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FIWAREFuture Internet ware
A middleware platform, driven by the European Union, for the development and global deployment of applications for Future Internet.
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
Fixity Check a method for ensuring the integrity of a file and verifying it has not been altered or corrupted. During transfer, an archive may run a fixity check to ensure a transmitted file has not been altered en route. Within the archive, fixity checking is used to ensure that digital files have not been altered or corrupted. It is most often accomplished by computing checksums such as MD5, SHA1 or SHA256 for a file and comparing them to a stored value. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Fixity;
Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary | |
FTPFile Transfer Protocol
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
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Geodata layerA Geodata layer is a representation of one or many geospatial datasets within a GIS System. It can contain additional representation information such as visualisation, labelling of the dataset, visibility under certain conditions based on scale, SQL query, etc.
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Geoprocessing workflowsGeoprocessing workflows are usually defined as a set of Geoprocessing tasks organized into a process. Geoprocessing tasks are functions of a GIS system used to manipulate, transform or manage geospatial datasets, maps and tables.
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Geospatial datasetGeospatial datasets are sets of records defining a type of object in space. For example a vector dataset of roads will contain graphical representations of roads and a respective table containing attributes describing each object within the data model of the dataset.
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Geospatial referenceGeospatial reference is the definition of the coordinate reference system for the geospatial dataset
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GIF Graphic Interchange Format, an image which typically uses lossy compression. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF;
Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary | |
Gigabyte (GB) A unit of digital information often used to describe data or data storage size, equates to approximately 1,000 Megabytes (MB).
Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary | |
GISAbbreviation for Geographical Information System, which is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographic data.
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GIS ProjectA GIS project is a document that organizes geospatial datasets into layers, defines the map representations, then reports and stores information on Geoprocessing workflows.
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GLNGlobal Location Number
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
GNU"A recursive acronym for ""GNU's Not Unix!""."
The GNU Project is a free software, mass collaboration project.
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
GS1Global Language for Business
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
GWGateway
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
GZIPGNU ZIP
A file format and a software application used for file compression and decompression.
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
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HL7Health Level-7
A set of international standards for the transfer of clinical and administrative data between software applications used by various healthcare providers. These standards focus on the application layer, which is layer 7 in the OSI model.
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
HTML Hypertext Markup Language, a format used to present text and other information on the World Wide Web. Since 1996, versions of the HTML specification have been maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML;
Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary | |
HTTPHypertext Transfer Protocol
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
HTTPSaka HTTP over SSL
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
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IASA International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, an association for archives that preserve recorded sound and audiovisual documents. http://www.iasa-web.org;
Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary | |
ICDInterface Control Document
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
IDIdentifier
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
IETFInternet Engineering Task Force
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
IIPC The International Internet Preservation Consortium. http://www.netpreserve.org;
Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary | |
Implementing ActOnce an EU law is passed, it can be necessary to update it to reflect developments in a particular sector or to ensure that it is implemented properly. Parliament and Council can authorise the Commission to adopt delegated or implementing acts, respectively, in order to do this. Primary responsibility for implementing EU law lies with EU countries. However, in areas where uniform conditions for implementation are needed (taxation, agriculture, the internal market, health and food safety, etc.), the Commission (or exceptionally the Council) adopts an implementing act.
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
INEAInnovation and Networks Executive Agency
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
Information Assurance An aspect of digital security, specifically directed at ensuring that the quality of the information is demonstrably safeguarded, that it has not been tampered with or accessed inappropriately.
Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary | |
Information Package (IP)A logical container composed of optional Content Information and optional associated Preservation Description Information. Associated with this Information Package is Packaging Information used to delimit and identify the Content Information and Package Description information used to facilitate searches for the Content Information.
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Ingest the process of turning a Submission Information Package (SIP) into an Archival Information Package (AIP), i.e. putting data into a digital archive (OAIS term).
Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary | |
InterPARES project International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems. http://www.interpares.org;
Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary | |
InventoryA list of things. A finding aid that includes, at a minimum, a list of the series in a collection. In Records Management, it is the process of surveying the records in an office, typically at the series level.
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IPInternet Protocol
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
IPRIntellectual Property Right
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |