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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Sample implementation/softwareSoftware 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 | |
SATSelf-Assessment Tool
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
SBBSolution Building Block
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
SBDHStandard Business Document Header
From UN/CEFACT.
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
ScPScalability and Performance
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
SDDService Delivery Document
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
SDOStandards Developing Organisation
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
SecSecurity
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 | |
SIPSubmission Information Package | |
SLAService Level Agreement
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
SMLService Metadata Locator
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
SMOStakeholder Management Office
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
SMPService 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 | |
SMTPSimple Mail Transfer Protocol
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
SOSubmit 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 | |
SOAPSimple Object Access Protocol
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
SOCService Offering Canvas
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
SODService Offering Description
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
SPOCSSimple 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 | |
SSLSecure 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. "
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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.
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SUTSystem Under Test
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
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TCTechnical Committee
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
TDDTest-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 environmentA 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 | |
TLSTransport 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 | |
TOTechnical Office
Responsible for components and software development.
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
TPDTobacco 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 | |
TSOTransmission System Operators
ENTSOG is one such TSO.
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
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UKWA UK Web Archive. http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/;
Definition by https://www.dpconline.org/handbook/glossary | |
UNUnited Nations
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
UN/CEFACTUnited Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
URLUniform Resource Locator
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
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W3CWorld 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 StandardW3C 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 | |
WARWeb 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 positionAs defined with a coordinate reference system
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Well-documented graphical componentDefined using a standardized or proprietary format for geospatial information, that stores coordinates of objects or their representations in space
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WildFlyApplication Server formerly known as JBoss.
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
WLSTWeblogic 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 | |
WSWeb Services
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
WS-IWeb Service Interoperability organisation
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
WS-ReliabilitySOAP-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-SecuritySOAP-based OASIS specification that applies security to Web Services.
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
WSDLWeb 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 | |
WSRMWeb Service Reliable Messaging
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
WSSWeb Server Software
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
WSSEWSSE 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 | |
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X.509Cryptography 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 | |
XMLDSIGXML Digital Signature
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
XMLENCXML 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 | |
XPeXtreme Programming
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
XPathA syntax for defining parts of an XML document.
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |
XSDXML 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 | |
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ZIPAn archive file format that supports lossless data compression.
Definition from https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/CEF+Glossary | |