Glossary¶

Terminology reference for Blacklake.

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Agent - A person or organization that creates or manages data objects.

API - Application Programming Interface for programmatic access to Blacklake.

Blob - A binary large object containing file content.

Branch - A parallel line of development in a repository.

Checksum - A cryptographic hash (SHA-256) used to identify and verify object content.

Commit - A snapshot of the repository state at a point in time.

Content-Addressable - Objects identified by their content hash rather than location.

DAG - Directed Acyclic Graph representing object relationships.

Dublin Core - A metadata standard for describing resources.

FOAF - Friend of a Friend ontology for describing people and organizations.

Git-like - Operations similar to Git version control system.

Hash - A fixed-size string generated from object content using SHA-256.

JSON-LD - JSON for Linked Data, a method of encoding linked data in JSON.

Metadata - Data that describes other data.

MIME Type - A standard way to indicate the nature and format of a file.

Object - A content-addressable unit of data in Blacklake.

OWL - Web Ontology Language for defining ontologies.

Repository - A collection of objects, commits, and references.

RDF - Resource Description Framework for representing information.

SHA-256 - A cryptographic hash function used for object identification.

SHACL - Shapes Constraint Language for validating RDF data.

Solr - Apache Solr search platform for full-text search.

Tree - A directory-like structure containing references to other objects.

Version Control - A system for tracking changes to data over time.