DNAOS Quick Glossary

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PANEL
a DNAOS GUI and publishing nested (nestable) construct; a panel can be used to hold the content of a page body or as part of another panel; panels can contain other panels, rows, and content.

PARALLEL
as in parallel processing or concurrent processing; efficient way of processing data, especially with parallel or concurrent XML streams, as often in SOA and distributed applications.

PARTY
a resource Owner resource archetype including person, organization, project, application, and typically represented with a green background.

PERIOD
a Time span, e.g. ISO 8601

PERSON
a DNAOS party archetype resource, specific for each and every person the portal or its applications need to reference, including users, managers, clients, partners, suppliers, visitors, etc, if someone is referenced in any way, there has to be a corresponding person resource; DNAOS party archetypes, including company and person, are assigned roles that provide them with applications rights to other resources; party archetypes, person resources are also typically represented with a green background.

PIPELINE
these are streaming data-processing structures where information is analysed (ex: metadata), transformed (for applications, protocols, and requirements), and prepared for presentation, as at travels through the pipeline, without requiring or waiting for the whole document to arrive or the stream to complete; multiple pipelines and sub-pipelines can be used in parallel, yielding a combination of very rich and fine grain control, along with very high performance and scalability, required for secure distributed portal applications;

POLICY
Association attribute defining the access constraints of a resource on another one.

PORTAL
are collaborative distributed network application environments; more information is available on the 'portals' page, of the DNAOS context section.

PRIVILEGE
DNAOS privileges are granted with membership assignments (access resources). See also Rights.

PROCESS
Aggregated resource behavior, corresponding to the orchestration of the contributing Resource Behaviors.

PROCESSING
a computing action analysing and transforming data and information for a purpose.

PRODUCT
what organizations produce and market.

PROFILE
a collection of information on a specific subject, person, item, thing, place, etc; the profile is a structured information entity who's source information can be distributed over a variety of systems, formats, computers, and locations;

PROJECT
DNAOS manage different types of project including document development for web and print publishing, consulting and services, as well as sales of goods and solutions.

PROTOCOL
a set of conventions and coding methods for information exchange.

PUBLISH
a compound process to analyse, interpret, layout, paginate, present, publish, and navigate structured documents for print (ex: PDF) and interactive media (ex: Web).