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ELISE - European Location Interoperability Solutions for e-Government glossary

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Short term for referring to Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA). Term for a framework for intelligently controlling access to computer resources, enforcing policies, auditing usage, and providing the information necessary to bill for services.

An access management federation is a network of organizations that trust each other for the means of sharing protected resources among each other

Source: Open Geospatial Consortium (2012). Architecture of an Access Management Federation for Spatial Data and Services in Germany. OGC 12-026 White Paper. A. Matheus, Ed.

Asset Description Metadata Schema Application Profile
American Geosciences Institute

The processing of personal data in such a way that the data does no longer relate to an identified or identifiable natural person

The developers, and the users of the application constructs they build through an API, either within a company or on the Internet with business partners, customers, citizens, etc.

ELISE Resources: Digital Government Benchmark - API study

An Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of functions and procedures that allow the creation of applications which access the features or data of an operating system, application, or other service.
A Reusable INSPIRE Reference Platform

Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to systems that display intelligent behaviour by analysing their environment and taking actions – with some degree of autonomy – to achieve specific goals.

ELISE Resources: Study on Opportunities and Challenges of Collaboration for Geospatial Services

The Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS) is a specification used to describe reusable solutions, such as data models and specifications, reference data and open source software. The ADMS specification was developed in an International Working Group of more than 60 representatives from public administrations and other experts from 20 EU Member States, following an open and inclusive process of consensus building.

Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real world environment where the objects that reside in the real world are enhanced by computer generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple sensory modalities including visual, audio …

Data that provides an accurate representation of reality with quality parameters that are fit for the intended purposes
Data from officially regarded sources. A subset of spatial data may be described as ‘authoritative data’, where it has legal value because it is defined by a competent authority.