Term | Description |
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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. |
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