======== Glossary ======== This page collects terms, acronyms, and system names that come up across the Digital Collections documentation. It is meant as a quick reference for new team members — deeper documentation for many of these systems lives in :doc:`04_cultral_heritage`, :doc:`999_legacy`, and the ``applications/`` and ``workflows/`` sections of this site. Archipelago-specific terminology (ADO, AMI, Strawberry Field, TWIG, and friends) has its own glossary at :doc:`../applications/archipelago/00_archipelago-terms`; the most load-bearing of those terms are also summarized below for convenience. .. glossary:: :sorted: ADO Archipelago Digital Object. Any digital object or digital object collection managed in Archipelago. Every ADO has a **type** (or *worktype*), such as "Book" or "Image", that determines how it is displayed. AMI Archipelago Multi-Importer. The module used to batch ingest ADOs into Archipelago from a spreadsheet. ARK Archival Resource Key. A persistent identifier scheme used to provide long-term, stable access to digital objects even if their storage location changes. We mint ARKs via :term:`EZID`. See :doc:`../topics_and_services/identifiers/minting_arks`. Avalon Avalon Media System, the platform used to deliver streaming audio and video collections, built on :term:`Fedora`. Cantaloupe The IIIF image server used to serve zoomable, deep-viewable images for our digital collections. CAP Curator's Administration Platform. An in-house, open-source application that provides a common UI and API for institutional repositories participating in a Digital Asset Management Ecosystem. CWS Creative Works Series. An :term:`ADO` type used for multi-page or multi-part objects (such as a book) where individual pages or parts need to be browsed and, in some cases, programmatically paired with OCR/HTR text. DOI Digital Object Identifier. A persistent identifier commonly used for journal articles, datasets, and other scholarly outputs, often minted through :term:`EZID` or OJS. DPMT Digital Project Management Team. The cross-functional team responsible for reviewing, prioritizing, and shepherding digitization and digital collection projects from intake through completion. See the DPMT process documentation for how projects move through the team. DSpace The open-source repository platform that powers :term:`OAKTrust`, our institutional repository. EZID A persistent identifier service (provided by the California Digital Library) that we use to mint and manage :term:`ARK` and :term:`DOI` identifiers. Fedora The repository backend used for cultural heritage collections (served through :term:`SAGE` or Spotlight) and for audio/video collections served through :term:`Avalon`. HOCR An HTML-based format for representing OCR output, including the position of recognized text on a page image. Used to align searchable text with page images in multi-page objects. HPRC Texas A&M High Performance Research Computing. The campus unit providing the computational infrastructure that supports our AI/ML initiatives. HTR Handwritten Text Recognition. Similar to OCR, but for transcribing handwritten materials such as manuscripts and correspondence. IDEA Document The proposal document a stakeholder submits to :term:`DPMT` to request a new digital project. It kicks off the DPMT intake and review process. IIIF International Image Interoperability Framework. A set of open standards for delivering high-resolution images and audio/video in an interoperable way, served here via :term:`Cantaloupe` and viewed via Mirador. irIIIFService An in-house IIIF Presentation API implementation designed to work with our DSpace and Fedora content models. MAGPIE Metadata Assignment GUI Providing Ingest and Export App. Our primary in-house tool for ingesting :term:`SAF`-modeled data into :term:`Fedora`. OAKTrust Texas A&M University's open access institutional repository, built on :term:`DSpace`, used to collect, preserve, and share the scholarly output of the University and its partners. OCR Optical Character Recognition. Automated extraction of machine-readable text from images of printed material. OJS Open Journal Systems. The platform (via our partnership with the :term:`TDL`) used to launch, host, and manage open-access journals published at Texas A&M. ORCID Open Researcher and Contributor ID. A persistent identifier for individual researchers, used to disambiguate authors and link them to their scholarly output. RAG Retrieval-Augmented Generation. A technique that combines a language model with a search/ retrieval step over a document collection, used to support advanced querying of digital collections. ROR Research Organization Registry. A persistent identifier for research institutions, used in OJS to identify author affiliations. SAF Simple Archive Format. A DSpace-defined file/folder structure for batch importing items and their metadata, commonly generated with our SAF Creator tool. SAGE One of the delivery systems used to serve cultural heritage collections built on :term:`Fedora`. Spotlight A Blacklight-based tool used to build online exhibits from digital collections. Strawberry Field An Archipelago descriptive metadata field made up of several individual Archipelago fields combined together. TDL Texas Digital Library. A consortium the Libraries partner with to host and support open-access journal publishing. TWIG The template engine Archipelago uses to extract metadata from an ADO's JSON and render it for display. WCAG Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. The standard we design digital collections and exhibits against to meet ADA Title II accessibility requirements.