Glossary of terms

Linked Pipes

Project Glossary

Word	Definition
API	Stands for Application Programming Interface. Consist of a set of endpoints.
Endpoint	An endpoint is one end of a communication channel.
Assistant	Refers to the Linked Pipes Visualization Assistant, which allows users to create, configure and publish visualisations based on input data sets.
DataCube	multi-dimensional array of values.
Data descriptor	An SPARQL ASK query associated with a visualizer that determines if an input data graph can be visualized in the corresponding visualizer.
Data source	Refers to any source of data, such as an RDF file, csv, database, etc.
ETL	Extract, transform, load.
IRI	Stands for Internationalized Resource Identifier. It is an internet protocol standard which extends ASCII characters subset of the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) protocol.
LDVM	Stands for Linked Data Visualization Model.
LDVMi	Stands for LDVM implementation.
Linked Data	a method of publishing structured data so that it can be interlinked.
LPA	Stands for Linked Pipes Application.
Linked Open Data Cloud (LOD Cloud)	The largest cloud of linked data that is freely available to everyone.
LinkedPipes ETL	The service in charge of the ETL process.
Pipeline	In the current context, refers to the process in which the application takes any data source and applies a series of transformations to its data based on the desired visualisation.
'Pipeline Execution'	Runs the pipeline on actual data and hands over the transformed output to a visualizer component, which then produces a visual representation of the data.
Pipeline Discovery	The process taking input descriptors for all visualizers and attempt to combine the respective registered transformation to achieve a specific data format.
RDF	Resource Description Framework.
Semantic web	an extension of the World Wide Web through standards by the World Wide Web Consortium.
Single Page Application (SPA)	A web application or web site that interacts with the user by dynamically rewriting the current page rather than loading entire new pages from a server.
SPARQL	stands for SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language. It is a query language able to retrieve and manipulate data stored in RDF format.
URI	A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a string of characters designed for unambiguous identification of resources and extensibility via the URI scheme. They provide a standard way for resources to be accessed by other computers across a network or over the World Wide Web.
URL	A URL is a specific type of URI and stands for Uniform Resource Locator.