Glossary

CSS
Cascading Style Sheet is a style specification used to add style and presentation to webpages.
HDT
HDT (Header, Dictionary, Triples) is a compact data structure and binary serialization format for RDF that keeps big datasets compressed to save space while maintaining search and browse operations without prior decompression. This makes it an ideal format for storing and sharing RDF datasets on the Web.
HTML
HyperText Markup Language is the markup language used to create webpage.
Jinja2
Jinja2 is a python templating engine. It’s used by Atramhasis for rendering HTML templates.
Pyramid
This webframework was used to implement the server side components of Atramhasis.
RDF
Resource Description Framework. A very flexible model for data definition organised around triples. These triples forms a directed, labeled graph, where the edges represent the named link between two resources, represented by the graph nodes.
REST
REST or REpresentational State Transfer is a way of data exchange that is very complimentary to the operations of the HTTP protcol.
SKOS
Simple Knowledge Organization System. An general specification for Knowledge Organisation Systems (thesauri, word lists, authority files, …) that is commonly serialised as RDF.
SKOS-THES
The ISO 25964 SKOS extension defines mappings between the ISO 25964 standard and the SKOS specification.
SOA
Service Oriented Architecture.
URI
A Uniform Resource Identifier.
URN
A URN is a specific form of a URI.