| 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 |
| Entity Resolution (aka Term Fetch) | Accessing a URI through CURL or a web browser shows data related to the term. |
| 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.) |
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