Glossary
Application Profileβ
A schema composed of metadata elements drawn from one or more namespaces, as well as policies and guidelines related to their use, prepared for a particular application.
Application Programming Interface (API)β
A code library that enables third-party applications to communicate with a web service platform.
Argumentβ
A series of reasons, statements, or facts in a metadata schema intended to support or establish a point of view, rather than a neutral statement, that describes a person, event, or object.
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)β
One of five Getty Vocabularies that contains Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) for generic terms related to art, architecture, and visual cultural heritage.
Authority Fileβ
An authority file is a list that contains the authoritative way to reference people, places, things, or concepts, usually as a heading or numeric identifier.
Authority Recordβ
A stable, persistent Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for a concept in the Linked Data (LD) ecosystem.
Blank Nodeβ
A subject or object in a Resource Description Framework (RDF) graph for which a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) or literal is not given.
Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)β
A non-profit corporation that invests in research infrastructure at Canadian universities, colleges, research hospitals, and non-profit research institutions.
CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governanceβ
A set of principles (collective benefit, authority to control, responsibility, and ethics) to advance collective and individual data rights in the open data movement.
CIDOC CRMβ
A suite of event-centric ontologies for describing data in the cultural heritage domain, developed to link together heterogeneous sets of data managed by museums, galleries, and other heritage institutions.
Classingβ
To declare an entity to be an instance of a class using rdf:type within the chosen ontology for the dataset.
Controlled Vocabularyβ
A standardized and organized arrangement of words and phrases, which provides a consistent way to describe data.
Conversionβ
The process of changing data from one format to another.
Creative Commons (CC)β
A nonprofit organization that provides free licences so people can grant copyright permission to their work in a standardized way.
Crosswalkingβ
The conceptual process of associating equivalent metadata values or fields from one schema with another.
Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA)β
One of five Getty Vocabularies that contains Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) for titles, creator attributions, physical characteristics, and depicted subjects concerning works of art, architecture, and visual cultural heritage.
Cypherβ
A query language for graph databases that reflects the semantic nature of triples but does so with its own unique syntax and formatting.
DBPediaβ
A project that creates publicly available structured data for the Linked Open Data (LOD) Cloud.
Dereferenceableβ
An adjective used in relation to Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) that can turn from an abstract reference into something more concrete, namely a web resource.
Dewey Decimal Classification System (DDC)β
A library classification system that is commonly used by public libraries and small academic libraries to organize print collections.