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| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| Reconciliation | Things-to-Things - The process of identifying that two things represented by different URIs are actually the same thing. |
| Entity Resolution | Strings-to-Things - The process of identifying that a String Label is the label for a thing identified by a URI. |
| Disambiguation | When presented with multiple very closely labeled options, this is the process of determining which option is the correct entity. |
| Caching | 1 Storing local copies of entire dataset. 2 Caching of a single label or small pieces of data about a single term. |
| Accuracy | 1 The ability of an API to return relevant data |
| URI Dereferencing (aka Term Fetch) | Accessing a URI through CURL or a web browser shows data related to the entity the URI represents. The data can vary for different formats (e.g. JSON-LD, n-triples, HTML, etc.), for example the data displayed on a webpage using HTML may be different than the data retrieved through CURL when requesting an RDF format. And the amount of data returned can vary between authorities with some only returning data where the URI is the subject and others returning data in the wider graph. |
| Search (general) | Given a string query, search a dataset for occurrences of the string. The search is generally of an index over the dataset to provide acceptable performance times. |
| Keyword Search | Search for a string query typically across multiple fields where the query can be anywhere in the field. |
| Left-anchor Search | Search for a string query where the query is an exact match of the primary label starting with with the first character of the primary label. |
| Browse (general) | Approaching a dataset from a specific perspective and navigating to a desired (known or yet known) entity. A “perspective” may or may not be appropriate or supported by a given data set. |
| Hierarchical Browse | Starting at a term in a hierarchy and moving to broader or narrower terms. |
| A-Z Browse | Navigating through all terms in alphabetical order. This may involve canned queries for groupings (e.g. A-D, E-H, etc.) |
| Incremental Search | aka real-time suggestions or a typeahead, as the user types text the query is run in real time and matches are found and immediately displayed. See also Left-anchor Search |