Glossary

W3C

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a collaborative international community that brings together Member organizations, a dedicated staff, and the public to jointly develop Web standards.

Wallet

A wallet allows for the storage, organization, and presentation of Verifiable Credentials.

Web

A measure that aims to improve the performance of a company's online presence is made possible through web analytics. Here, data is measured, collected, analyzed, and presented. Social media analytics utilizes information provided by users online, such as preferences for specific products, activities, or friends, and relies on sources such as Facebook or LinkedIn.

Web Ontology Language (OWL)

The W3C Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a Semantic Web platform created to represent intricate and comprehensive knowledge about entities, collections of entities, and the associations among them. OWL is a logic-based language that can be processed by computer programs to assess the consistency of the knowledge or to make implicit knowledge explicit. OWL documents, called ontologies, can be shared on the World Wide Web and can link to or be linked from other OWL ontologies. OWL is part of the W3C's Semantic Web technology stack, which encompasses RDF, RDFS, SPARQL, and more.

Web Services Description Language

WSDL is an XML-based description language for web services and other network services used for message exchange. The platform-, protocol-, and programming language-independent language specifies the syntactic elements of a web service, which enable a client to access the corresponding web service.

WG (working group)

Working groups are organized committees or cross-SIG efforts that aim to facilitate discussions and/or implement short-lived, narrow, or decoupled projects. These groups are designed to bring together individuals with diverse skill sets to collaborate on specific tasks and projects. Working groups are an effective way of organizing people and resources to achieve a specific goal. To learn more about working groups, please refer to the Kubernetes community repository and the current list of SIGs and working groups.

Work Packages (WP)

The Open Work Packages are focused on completing specific tasks and operate under a similar structure to the permanent Working Groups. All members of Gaia-X have the ability to contribute to the Open Work Packages, and the resulting deliverables may include position papers, technical evaluations, whitepapers, proposals, and more.

Working Groups (WG)

The Working Groups are situated within the AISBL's Technical Committee and are responsible for handling specific assignments. Participation in the Working Groups is restricted to members of the AISBL.

Workload

A workload in Kubernetes refers to an application that is currently running on the platform. The core objects that represent different types or components of a workload include DaemonSet, Deployment, Job, ReplicaSet, and StatefulSet objects. For instance, a workload that includes both a web server and a database may involve running the database in one StatefulSet object, while deploying the web server in a separate Deployment object.