The complete glossary of terms
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- Associations
- Relationships that are not hierarchical or equivalent, but represent conceptual connections - eg related terms.
- Beguile
- verb (beguiled, beguiling)
- to charm or captivate - Her voice beguiled me.
- (sometimes beguile someone into or out of something) to cheat, trick or deceive them into or out of it.
- (usually beguile away something) to spend (time, etc) pleasantly - beguile away the hours.
- beguilement noun.
- beguiling adj deceptively charming or amusing.
- beguilingly adverb.
- Concepts
- Units of thought that correspond to one or more objects. Objects may be concrete or abstract and real or imaginary.
- Controlled vocabularies
- Finite sets of distinct values that are permitted for particular metadata elements.
- Deprecated terms
- Terms that are no longer used. As a deprecated term may still appear in existing metadata instances or in older versions of vocabularies, it can be useful to retain information about it, particularly if it has relationships to new or existing terms.
- Entry terms
- Equivalent terms that represent the same concept, but that are not the first-choice (or preferred) terms. They are 'leaves on the tree' of a hierarchy. The Studio has built-in entry terms of translation and non-preferred term.
- Equivalencies
- Relationships between terms that represent the same concept.
- Hierarchies
- Relationships between terms where one of the concepts is a subset of the other.
- Homographs
- Terms that are spelt the same way but have different meanings.
- Metadata
- Information, usually arranged in a structured way, that can be used by computer systems.
- Metadata instances
- Individual records that contain information arranged according to a particular scheme.
- Node labels
- A dummy term used to provide structure or grouping and not normally used as part of a controlled vocabulary in metadata (also called a facet indicator).
- Non-preferred term
- A term that is equivalent and represents the same concept, but which should be replaced by the preferred term wherever possible.
- Pedagogy
- noun the science, principles or work of teaching.
- ETYMOLOGY: 17c: from French pedagogie, from Greek paidagogia tutorship, from pais child + agein to lead
- Preferred term
- The term that should be used (in place of the non-preferred term). There can only be one preferred term associated with a broader term or concept.
- An indication that there is some connection between the concepts named by terms, but that the equivalence is not exact and that one is not a subset of the other.
- Spine of Concepts
- Unstructured list of concepts, each with one or more terms.
- Synonyms
- Terms that have the same meaning.
- Taxonomies
- Collections of controlled vocabulary terms organised into a tree (or hierarchical) structure.
- Terms
- Words or phrases that name a concept.
- Thesauri
- Sets of terms with structured relationships arranged according to their meaning.
- Vocabularies
- Structured or unstructured sets of terms.
- Zthes
- An XML definition for representing and searching thesauri, including suggestions for vocabulary file formats. This is the main model that the Studio uses for import and export of vocabularies.
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