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SMAP CLEARING HOUSE TECHNICAL GLOSSARY
| Released | 05/02/2008 |
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| Contributor | SMAP RMSU |
SMAP CLEARING HOUSE TECHNICAL GLOSSARY
A | ||
| Account | Establishes user details and privileges specifically within CH Portal. (The username and password are defined together with the opening of the account.) |
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| Administrator | A user with full contribution, reviewing and publishing privileges. (The Administrator manages other users, defines new roles, gives clearance to the contributors' material to be published). | SMAP CLearing House User Manual |
| Anonymous user | A user of the CH Portal who is not registered and does not authenticate in the system. (The anonymous user has access to all the information published in the CH Portal). | SMAP CLearing House User Manual |
| Authenticated user | A registered user who has an account on the CH Portal with contribution or administration privileges. | SMAP_admin_guide |
C | ||
| CH Portal | SMAP Clearing House Portal | SMAP CLearing House User Manual |
| Clearance | The approval of the Administrator for the material to be published on the CH Portal. | SMAP CLearing House User Manual |
| Contributor | A registered user who has privileges to post data in the sections and folders on which he/she has been given this role. (The information submitted by contributors is not visible for anonymous users until it has been given clearance - i.e. reviewed and approved - by administrators or managers of the system). | SMAP CLearing House User Manual |
D | ||
| Document | Any file produced by a specific application. Refers mainly to Word documents but also e.g. to HTML documents. | www.webopedia.com |
| Download | To transfer a file from the CH to the user's computer. (Subsequently, the file can be viewed with corresponding programmes - Word, PowerPoint etc). | www.webopedia.com |
E | ||
| Event | An information object that describes an event, a meeting or a conference. | SMAP CLearing House User Manual |
| ExFile | Extended file: an information object that allows uploading files of any type (pdf, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint) to the CH. | www.webopedia.com |
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| FAQ | A FAQ (frequently asked questions) answers common questions a user of the CH Portal might have. | EnviroWindows EEA platform for knowledge sharing and development www.techterms.com |
| Folder | A storage of different information objects relating to a particular field. Folders are used to organise information. The contents of the CH Portal are organised through a hierarchy of folders that contain different types of information objects. | EnviroWindows |
| Forum | A web application for posting questions on the CH Portal and for having discussions. | WIKIPEDIA |
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| Geomap | Web application developed by the EEA that allows inserting objects (geopoints) on a web based georeferenced map and navigating through it. Geopoints are linked to information objects available in the Clearing House | SMAP_admin_guide |
| Geopoint | Object located on the GeoMap and linked to information objects available in the Clearing House | SMAP_admin_guide |
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HTML Document | A generic HTML page whose content is edited using a built-in WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor in CH. | SMAP Clearing House User Manual |
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| Information object | The generic type of contents of the CH Portal. The main types of information objects are: Folder, News, Event, URL, Pointer, HTML document, ExFile, Media file. | SMAP Clearing House User Manual |
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| Login | To start an authenticated user session in the CH Portal. (The login page allows the registered users to enter their username and password in order to be recognised by the system and as contributor, administrator or manager). | www.webopedia.com |
| Logout | To end an authenticated user session in the CH Portal. | www.webopedia.com |
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| Manager | A user with full privileges over the site. | SMAP_admin_guide |
| Media file | An information object that provides a link to a short movie or audio track, e.g. to a presentation or a clip from a conference, which will be displayed to the user within the respective web page. | SMAP_admin_guide |
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| News | Contains announcements and other pieces of information which are relevant to the Clearing House initiative and valid for a short period of time. | SMAP Clearing House User Manual |
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| Password | A secret series of characters that enables a user to access the CH as an authenticated user. The username and password are entered during the login. | SMAP Clearing House User Manual |
| Pointer | An information object providing an internal link to another information object in the Clearing House | SMAP Clearing House User Manual |
| Privilege | A permission granted to a registered user to perform specific actions in the CH, for example to post data in specific sections or folders of the CH. The privileges are granted by the Administrator. | SMAP_admin_guide |
| PTK | The SMAP CH Portal Tool Kit (PTK) is a set of software components that allows installation, running and off-line browsing of the information of the CH Portal on local computers. | SMAP_admin_guide |
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| Registered user | A user that has created an account on the CH Portal and has applied for contributor privileges (to be granted by an Administrator). | SMAP Clearing House User Manual |
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| URL | Information object describing an external information resource (web site, document, database) and providing a link to access it through the web. | SMAP Clearing House User Manual |
| Username | A name that identifies the user in the CH Portal. (In the registration page the user may choose a username that he/she wishes to use in the future). | SMAP Clearing House User Manual |
| Upload | To transfer a file from the user's local computer to the Clearing House Portal. | www.webopedia.com |
X | ||
| XML | Abbreviation of Extensible Markup Language.It is a pared-down version of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) designed especially for organizing and tagging elements of Web documents. | www.webopedia.com |
Z | ||
| ZMI | The Zope Management Interface allows the manager of the portal to administrate and maintain the SMAP Clearing House website. | SMAP_admin_guide |
| Zope | Zope is an open source application server for building content management systems, intranets, portals, and custom applications. | http://www.zope.org/ |
Page last updated:
23/07/2008