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.