Updated glossary with new terms, format fixes
authorbhyland
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:29:01 -0400
changeset 185 a3667822ac53
parent 141 29a3dd6dc12c
child 186 b5bc211e5459
Updated glossary with new terms, format fixes
glossary/index.html
glossary/respec-config.js
--- a/glossary/index.html	Mon Mar 26 12:35:42 2012 -0400
+++ b/glossary/index.html	Thu Apr 26 09:29:01 2012 -0400
@@ -30,10 +30,9 @@
 </p>
 </section>
 
-<section id="api">
+<section>
 <h4>Application Programmer Interface(API)</h4>
-<p>An abstraction implemented in software that defines how others should make use of a software package such as a library or other reusable program.
-</p>
+An abstraction implemented in software that defines how others should make use of a software package such as a library or other reusable program.
 </section>
 
 <section>
@@ -49,8 +48,9 @@
 <section>
 <h4>CC-BY-SA License</h4>
 Work available under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" taget="blank">CC-BY-SA license</a> means you can include it in any other work under the condition that you give proper attribution. If you create derivative works (such as modified or extended versions), then you must also license them as CC-BY-SA.
+</section>
 
-<section id="close">
+<section>
 <h4>Closed World</h4>
 The presumption that what is not known to be true must be false.  The assumption underlying relational databases, most forms of logical programming, OWL DL and OWL Lite.
 </section>
@@ -95,6 +95,16 @@
 An RDF representation of the metadata held in Wikipedia and made available for SPARQL query on the World Wide Web.
 </section >
 
+<section>
+<h4>Dereferencing a URI</h4>  
+The act of retrieving a representation of a resource or the semantic description of a resource created by the URI owner.  A URI was successfully dereferenced when an agent successfully retrieved the representation of the resource or received the semantic description of a resource via the protocol specified within the URI.
+</section>
+
+<section>
+<h4>Descriptor Resource</h4> 
+A type of resource that bears/carries the description of a Subject.</h4>
+</section>
+
 <section >
 <h4>Directed Acyclic Graph</h4>
 A directed graph (like RDF) with the additional restriction that no loops or cycles are permitted.  A cycle is a path from a given node that would allow one to find their way back to the starting node.
@@ -125,6 +135,11 @@
 </section>
 
 <section>
+<h4>Entity</h4>
+Anything that can be named using a URI and serve as the Subject of a description.
+</section>
+
+<section>
 <h4>Free/Libre/Open Source Software</h4>
  A generic and internationalized term for software released under an Open Source license.
 </section>
@@ -226,6 +241,11 @@
 </section>
 
 <section>
+<h4>Object</h4>
+<p class="todo">@@TODO: Define@@</p>
+</section>
+
+<section>
 <h4 > Ontology</h4>
 A formal representation of relationships between items in a directed graph structure.  See <a href="#taxonomy">taxonomy</a>.
 </section>
@@ -242,9 +262,13 @@
 </section>
 
 <section>
+<h4>Predicate</h4>
+Modifies the Subject of an RDF Statement.  Inspired from work in predicate calculus, (also called predicate logic, first order logic), the predicate of a sentence can be thought of as the verb.
+</section>
+
+<section>
 <h4>Provenance</h4>
-Provenance refers to the sources of information, such as entities and processes, involved in producing or delivering an artifact[[PROV]].
-
+Provenance refers to the sources of information, such as entities and processes, involved in producing or delivering an artifact.
 </section>
 
 <section>
@@ -268,6 +292,11 @@
 </section>
 
 <section>
+<h4>Resource</h4>
+Anything that can be addressed by a URI.
+</section>
+
+<section>
 <h4>RDF (Resource Description Framework)</h4>
  A language for representing information about resources in the World Wide Web. RDF is based on the idea of identifying things using Web identifiers (called Uniform Resource Identifiers, or URIs), and describing resources in terms of simple properties and property values. This enables RDF to represent simple statements about resources as a graph of nodes and arcs representing the resources, and their properties and values [[!RDF-Primer]].
 </section>
@@ -356,6 +385,11 @@
 A query language standard for relational databases.
 </section>
 
+<section>
+<h4>Subject</h4>
+Who or what the RDF statement is about.
+</section>
+
 <section >
 <h4>Taxonomy</h4>
  A formal representation of relationships between items in a hierarchical structure.  See <a href="#ontology">ontology</a>.
@@ -373,7 +407,7 @@
 
 <section >
 <h4>Triple</h4>
- An RDF statement, consisting of two things (a "subject" and an "object") and a relationship between them (a verb, or "predicate").  This subject-predicate-object triple forms the smallest possible RDF graph (although most RDF graphs consist of many statements).
+ An RDF statement, consisting of two things (a "Subject" and an "Object") and a relationship between them (a verb, or "Predicate").  This subject-predicate-object triple forms the smallest possible RDF graph (although most RDF graphs consist of many statements).
 </section >
 
 <section >
@@ -419,7 +453,6 @@
  A global identifier for Web resources standardized by joint action of the W3C and IETF.  A URL is resolvable on the Web and is commonly called a "Web address".
 </section >
 
-
 <section >
 <h4>Web 2.0</h4>
  A colloquial description of the part of the World Wide Web that implements social networking, blogs, user comments and ratings and related human-centered activities.
@@ -464,7 +497,7 @@
 <!--    ACK   -->
 <section class="appendix">
 <h2>Acknowledgments</h2>
-<p>The editors are very thankful for the contributions of David Wood and Springer.
+<p>The editors are very thankful for the contributions from David Wood's publication by Springer of Linking Government Data.
 </p>
 </section>
 </body>
--- a/glossary/respec-config.js	Mon Mar 26 12:35:42 2012 -0400
+++ b/glossary/respec-config.js	Thu Apr 26 09:29:01 2012 -0400
@@ -1,15 +1,13 @@
 var respecConfig = {
     // specification status (e.g. WD, LCWD, NOTE, etc.). If in doubt use ED.
     specStatus:           "ED",
-    publishDate:          "2012-03-26",
+    publishDate:          "2012-04-26",
     //copyrightStart:       "2011",
 
     // the specification's short name, as in http://www.w3.org/TR/short-name/
     shortName:            "gld-glossary",
     //subtitle:             "",
-    // if you wish the publication date to be other than today, set this
-    // publishDate:  "2009-08-06",
-
+   
     // if there is a previously published draft, uncomment this and set its YYYY-MM-DD date
     // and its maturity status
     //previousPublishDate:  "2011-06-26",