Glossary

Data App

A software package that is self-contained and self-descriptive, distributed through the App Store and deployed within a Connector, granting access to data and data processing capabilities. The interface of this package, also known as a Data App, is semantically described by the IDS Vocabulary.

Data Brokerage

Data brokers, also known as information brokers or information resellers, are companies that gather personal information about individuals and then sell that information to other organizations. These brokers can gather data about consumers from a range of public and non-public sources, such as courthouse records, website cookies, and loyalty card programs. They often compile individual profiles for marketing purposes, which they sell to businesses looking to target their advertisements and promotions.

Data Definition Language

DDL, or Data Definition Language, is a set of predefined commands and syntax used for creating and modifying the structure of objects within a database. These objects can include tables, sequences, locations, aliases, schemas, and indexes.

Data Driven Decision making

Data-driven decision-making involves making business decisions using a quantitative approach that involves number crunching and data processing to generate numerical information. Although predictive models can be used to calculate the potential consequences of a decision and present them as predictive data, the focus is more on inputting variables and producing numerical results. In other words, data-driven decision-making is primarily concerned with the numbers and outcomes of a decision.

Data Driven Organization

A "data-driven organization" is one that has immediate access to the right data, in the right format, at no additional cost. In such organizations, business leaders have real-time insights into trends and anomalies, allowing them to focus their resources where they will be most effective. These organizations have mastered the art of quickly accessing summary information while also being able to drill down to the supporting details when necessary. An example of a perfect data-driven organization is one where significant issues are immediately identified and prioritized.

Data Exchange Logging Service

The Data Logging Service (DEL) is a Data Sovereignty category Federation Service that offers log messages to track important information related to data exchange transactions.

Data Factory

A Data Factory is a framework with activities required to turn raw data into a data product that can be either fed into an artificial intelligence application or traded. In essence, raw data rights must be verified before any data can be ingested or harvested (rights, licensing, user consent). Then data ought to be harmonized, properly labeled, or tagged for it to be made discoverable through a catalog of categories and search engines (harmonization). Furthermore, it needs to be scored to provide some indication of quality, because without it any subsequent analytics is ineffected – “garbage in, garbage out”. Finally, governance mechanisms are required to ensure that data can be exchanged while data sovereignty is maintained for each data provider.

Data Lifecycle Management

Data lifecycle management (DLM) is a strategic approach that involves implementing policies to effectively manage the flow of data within an information system, from its creation and initial storage, all the way to its obsolescence and eventual deletion.

Data Sovereignty

The ability of an individual or organization to exercise self-determination when it comes to their data.

Data Sovereignty Service

A Data Sovereignty Service is a type of Gaia-X Federation Service that facilitates the secure and autonomous exchange and usage of data within the Gaia-X Ecosystem. This service employs digital policies to enforce control over the flow of data and provide transparency of data usage, allowing individuals and organizations to maintain sovereignty and control over their data. The Data Sovereignty Service is designed to ensure that data is exchanged and utilized in compliance with relevant regulations, ethical principles, and data governance frameworks, promoting trust, accountability, and sustainability in the data economy.

Data Storage Description Language

The storage description language is used to describe the physical organization of data within a database management system. For example, it describes the partitioning of data on the storage medium.

Data Upload

Uploading data in the form of flat files directly to the platform, which can be stored in the customer's allocated storage space in either raw or processed form.

Data Validation / Quality management

Ensuring higher quality of data by enforcing restrictions on the structure of the data, its accuracy and consistency.

Database system

A collection of data that is centrally managed and made accessible through application-independent access mechanisms is called a database.

DataOps

DataOps, a developing field, combines DevOps teams with data engineers and data scientists to establish the necessary tools, procedures, and organizational frameworks to facilitate data-focused enterprises.

Dataspace Pilot

A pilot implementation refers to a deliberate and adequately resourced effort to execute one or more use cases within the confines of a dataspace initiative. A pilot implementation enables a dataspace initiative to validate its approach for full dataspace deployment. By conducting a dataspace pilot, any operability issues related to production-like conditions can be uncovered, providing an opportunity to address these issues before a complete rollout.

Dataspaces Blueprint

The dataspaces blueprint provides potential methods for constructing dataspaces, which include a collection of building blocks (both technical and non-technical) and recommendations for integrating these blocks.

Deep Learning

Deep learning refers to the use of artificial neural networks with multiple layers of interconnected nodes for machine learning purposes. Its widespread implementation over the last decade has resulted in the triumph of automated image, audio, text processing, and generation.

Demand Side Manager

A market role that focuses its business model on the targeted influence of electricity demand among consumers by controlling their electricity consumption. The main instruments used include shifting the timing of electricity consumption and shutting down non-critical consumers.

Deployment

A type of API object responsible for managing a duplicated application, typically achieved by launching stateless Pods. Each Pod represents a replica, and the cluster nodes host these Pods in a distributed fashion. If local state is necessary for the workload, a StatefulSet should be used instead.

Design Bill of Materials

The technical bill of materials, also known as the design bill of materials or product structure, is created as a result of the product design phase. It outlines the development specifications such as the product's shape, characteristics, and functions that are necessary to define the product.

Device Configuration Overlay

A concealed region present on numerous modern hard disk drives (HDDs) is referred to as device configuration overlay (DCO).

Device Manager

(1) The management and operation of peripheral devices within a computer system. In a desktop computer, the device drivers are used by the operating system to communicate with and control the peripherals. In small embedded systems, the device management routines may be integrated within the OS.(2) Setting up and distributing applications to the computing devices used within an organization, including desktop computers, laptops, and mobile devices.

Digital European Cordless Telecommunication

A European standard for wireless communication, originally developed for use in mobile phones.

Digital Subscriber Line

DSL, an abbreviation for Digital Subscriber Line, refers to an advanced technology for providing broadband internet connections to end users.

Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer

A DSLAM aggregates the IP traffic from many DSL home connections and is typically located in street cabinets.

Digitization

The process of digitization involves converting information into a digital format, wherein the information is organized into discrete units of data known as bits. These bits can be individually addressed, typically grouped together into bytes consisting of multiple bits.

Docker

Docker, or more specifically Docker Engine, is a software technology that offers containerization, a type of operating system-level virtualization. Docker employs Linux kernel's resource isolation characteristics, like cgroups and kernel namespaces, along with a union-capable file system such as OverlayFS and others, to enable autonomous containers to execute within a single Linux instance. This approach averts the need for initializing and maintaining virtual machines (VMs), thereby reducing overheads.

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

An IP address management protocol for networks in which DHCP is used by a central entity to dynamically assign IP addresses to network subscribers. This allows network subscribers to automatically configure themselves after connecting to the network.

Dynamic Volume Provisioning

Dynamic volume provisioning is a feature in Kubernetes that enables users to request the automatic creation of storage Volumes. This eliminates the need for cluster administrators to pre-provision storage, as it automatically provisions storage when requested by users. Dynamic volume provisioning is based on a Kubernetes API object called StorageClass, which refers to a Volume Plugin that provisions a Volume along with a set of parameters to pass to the plugin.