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SAML

Security Assertion Markup Language SAML is an XML standard that allows secure web domains to exchange user authentication and authorisation data. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Sample implementation/software

Software developed by CEF that may be used to get familiar with the technical specifications in a test environment or as a working solution in a production environment Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Sandbox Containment

A secure computing environment for running novel, unattested or experimental code or changes in code, including potentially malicious code. The environment is self-contained with tightly controlled resources and is characteristically virtual. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

SANTE (DG)

European Commission's Directorate-General Health and Food Safety Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SAT

Self-Assessment Tool Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SBB

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

SBDH

Standard Business Document Header From UN/CEFACT. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

ScP

Scalability and Performance Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SDD

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

SDO

Standards Developing Organisation  Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Sec

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

SGML

Standard Generalized Markup Language an ISO standard for how to specify a document markup language or tag set. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Generalized_Markup_Language; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Short-term preservation

Access to digital materials either for a defined period of time while use is predicted but which does not extend beyond the foreseeable future and/or until it becomes inaccessible because of changes in technology. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Significant properties

Characteristics of digital and intellectual objects that must be preserved over time in order to ensure the continued accessibility, usability and meaning of the objects and their capacity to be accepted as (evidence of) what they purport to be. https;//www.archives.gov/files/era/acera/pdf/significant-properties.pdf; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

SIP

Submission Information Package


SLA

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

SML

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

SMO

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

SMP

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

SMPTE

Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, a professional organisation and technical standards body for television and motion picture. https;//www.smpte.org; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SO

Submit Operation The Submit 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

SOAP

Simple Object Access Protocol Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SOC

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

SOD

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

SPOCS

Simple Procedure Online for Cross-Border Services SPOCS was a CIP LSP project that was active between May 2009 and December 2012. SPOCS aimed to build the next generation of PSC online portals – which every European country now has in place – through the availability of high impact cross-border electronic procedures. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer SSL is the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browsers remains private and whole. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Structural Metadata

"Structural metadata describes the physical and/or logical structure of digital resources; it expresses the intellectual boundaries of complex objects and can be used to describe relationships between an object's component parts. Structural metadata is commonly used to facilitate navigation and presentation of complex items by defining structural characteristics such as pagination and sequence. And, like METS, can be used to aggregate related metadata. "

Submission Information Package (SIP)

An Information Package that is delivered by the Producer to the OAIS for use in the construction or update of one or more AIPs and/or the associated Descriptive Information.

SUT

System Under Test Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

T

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

U

UKWA

UK Web Archive. http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

UN

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

UN/CEFACT

United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

URL

Uniform Resource Locator Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

W

W3C

World Wide Web Consortium The main international standards organisation for the World Wide Web. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

W3C Standard

W3C standards define an Open Web Platform for application development that has the unprecedented potential to enable developers to build rich interactive experiences, powered by vast data stores, that are available on any device. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

WAR

Web Application Archive Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

WARC

The WARC (Web ARChive) format is a container format for archived websites, also known as ISO 28500;2009. It is a revision of the Internet Archive's ARC File Format used to store web crawls harvested from the World Wide Web. http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=44717 Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

WAV

" the standard file wrapper for audio; see BWF (Broadcast WAV Format) for the professional variant. http";//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

Well-defined geospatial position

As defined with a coordinate reference system

Well-documented graphical component

Defined using a standardized or proprietary format for geospatial information, that stores coordinates of objects or their representations in space

WildFly

Application Server formerly known as JBoss. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

WLST

Weblogic Scripting Tool Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Writeblockers

Tools that prevent an examination computer system from writing or altering a collection or subject hard drive or other digital media object. Hardware writeblockers are generally regarded as more reliable than software writeblockers. Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

WS

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

WS-I

Web Service Interoperability organisation Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

WS-Reliability

SOAP-based OASIS specification that fulfils reliable messaging requirements critical to some applications of web services. N.B. WS-Reliability has been superseded by WS‑ReliableMessaging. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

WS-Security

SOAP-based OASIS specification that applies security to Web Services. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

WSDL

Web Services Description Language The WSDL represents a contract for the web service, it defines what the web service does. It's largely created by copy and pasting from other places. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

WSRM

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

WSS

Web Server Software Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

WSSE

WSSE is a family of open security specifications for SOAP web services. The basic premise of WSSE is that a request header is checked for encrypted credentials, verified using a timestamp and nonce, and authenticated for the requested user using a password digest. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

X

X.509

Cryptography standard for PKI. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

XML

Extensible Markup Language, a widely used standard (derived from SGML), for representing structured information, including documents, data, configuration, books, and transactions. It is maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). http://www.w3.org/XML/; Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary

XMLDSIG

XML Digital Signature Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

XMLENC

XML Encryption A stream-based XML output library for the Java programming language. Designed with the goals of speed and simplicity. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

XP

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

XPath

A syntax for defining parts of an XML document. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

XSD

XML Schema Definition W3C recommendation that specifies how to formally describe the elements in XML. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary

Z

ZIP

An archive file format that supports lossless data compression. Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary


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