10. Glossary

This Glossary describes acronyms related to documents used in HADatAc. The Glossary also describes some of the high level concepts related to HADatAc documents. A more comprehensive list of term related to HADatAc are encoded as the Human-Aware Science Ontology (HAScO).

• DA - Data Acquisition is a collection of data values with an uniform data quality type. Data acquisitions are often a collection of one of more data files although a single data file may contain data from more than one data acquisition
• data file - A computer file containing data values
• data quality type - The exact condition under which data values are collected by measurement, elicitation (e.g., from a human) or generation (e.g., by computer simulation). A standard operating procedure is a mechanism that laboratories use to assure that a given data acquisition process occur under a given data quality type
• DPL - Deployment metadata file that also includes information about platforms, instruments and detectors
• OAS - Object Access Specification metadata file that links files to studies and semantic data dictionaries
• SDD - Semantic Data Dictionary that semantically describes the contents of data acquisition files
• SOC - Semantic Object Collections are collections of Study Objects
• SSD - Semantic Study Design metadata file that identifies Study Objects like subjects and samples and how they are related
• STD - Study metadata file that describes basic properties of studies including whether they are observations or experiments
• Study - Studies are systematic activities towards the creation and organization of knowledge, which is often derived from data through the use of data analytics
• study object - Are things with of a named type (i.e., an entity type) that play one of more roles in a study like being subjects, samples, events and locations