Business Scenario: Open Public Sector Data – Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
API | Application Program Interface; see also Web Service API. |
App | A computer application that runs on mobile devices. |
CSV | Comma-Separated Values – a file format that can be processed by many spreadsheet programs. |
EU | European Union |
FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
GPS | Global Positioning System |
HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
IPR | Intellectual Property Rights |
JSON | Javascript Object Notation; refer to: www.json.org. |
Linked Data | Structured data on the web that follows a particular set of best practices for publication and interlinking [HEATH]. |
OECD | Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development |
OWL | Web Ontology Language |
PC | Personal Computer |
Portable Document Format | |
RDF | Resource Description Framework |
RSS | Really Simple Syndication |
Structured Data | Data that is organized in identified fields within records or files. Relational databases and spreadsheets are examples of structured data. |
SQL | Structured Query Language |
UDEF | Universal Data Element Framework – a framework for describing data to enable interoperability (The Open Group). |
Unstructured Data Data other than structured data. | |
W3C | The World-Wide Web Consortium; refer to www.w3.org. |
Web Service | A software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network (W3C). |
Web Service API | An interface by which another system interacts with a web service using the World-Wide Web. |