Glossary

Is a person who manage the application.

A database management system (DBMS) is computer software that manages databases. DBMS may use any of a variety of database models, such as the network model or relational model. In large systems, a DBMS allows users and other software to store, manage, and retrieve data in a structured way.

The Dublin Core metadata element set is a standard for cross-domain information resource description. It provides a simple and standardised set of conventions for describing things online in ways that make them easier to find. 

Geoinformation System.

GL Transmission Format is a royalty-free specification for the efficient transmission and loading of 3D scenes and models by applications. glTF is an international standard issued by the Khronos Group. [https://www.khronos.org/gltf/]

Smart District Data Infrastructure is a specific form of SDI consisting of the data, services, and applications required to manage the information of a city district in the context of a smart city strategy.

Spatial Data Infrastructure. 

The Shibboleth System is a standards based, open source software package for web single sign-on across or within organisational boundaries. It allows sites to make informed authorisation decisions for individual access of protected online resources in a privacy-preserving manner.

Service Oriented Architecture. 

Sensor Observation Service is a standard protocol for the management of sensors and the retrieval and manipulation of sensor data over the Internet. SOS is an international standard developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and is part of OGC's Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) strategy. [read further]

Building Information Modelling. 

Enterprise Business Registry Information Model. A standard issued by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). [ebRIM 4.0 specification] 

Enterprise Business XML is an XML encoding of the ebRIM information model.

Khronos Group is a not for profit, member-funded consortium dedicated to the creation of royalty-free open standards for graphics, parallel computing, vision processing, and dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms. [https://www.khronos.org]

Keyhole Markup Language is an XML-based encoding of geographical visualization elements to be shown in 2D maps and 3D Earth browsers. [read further]

Web Coverage Service is a standard protocol for retrieval and manipulation of field-based spatial data like raster images or voxel data over the Internet. WCS is an international standard developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

Web Feature Service is a standard protocol for retrieval and manipulation of object-structured data items over the Internet. WFS is an international standard developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). [read further]

Web Map Service is a standard protocol for serving georeferenced map images over the Internet that are generated by a map server using data from a GIS. WMS is an international standard developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). [read further]

Web Processing Service is designed to standardize the way how calculations, transformations, and even simulations are made available to the Internet. WPS can describe any computation process including all of its inputs and outputs, and trigger its execution as a Web Service. WPS is an international standard developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). [read further]

City Geography Markup Language is a conceptual data model and exchange format for semantic 3D city models. It is an open international standard issued by the OGC. [read further]

COLLAborative Design Activity defines a database schema and XML encoding for the exchange of 3D assets between applications like 3D authoring and processing tools as well as 3D visualization software. COLLADA is an international standard issued by the Khronos Group. [https://www.khronos.org/collada/]

Catalog Service for the Web. The OGC Catalog Service defines common interfaces to discover, browse, and query metadata about data, services, and other potential resources. [read further]

International Standards Organisation is an international-standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations. [http://www.iso.org]

ISO/TC 211 is a standard technical committee formed within ISO, tasked with covering the areas of digital geographic information (such as used by geographic information systems) and geomatics. It is responsible for preparation of a series of International Standards and Technical Specifications numbered in the range starting at 19101.

Open Geospatial Consortium. International standards organization for geospatial information systems. [http://www.opengeospatial.org/]

Object Oriented.

A Uniform Resource Locator specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it.

A Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) is an identifier standard used in software construction, standardized by the Open Software Foundation (OSF) as part of the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE).

eXtensible Markup Language is a general-purpose specification for creating custom markup languages. It is an open standard issued by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Three dimensional.

3DCityDB is an Open Source geodatabase to store, manage, and visualize semantic 3D city models. [http://www.3dcitydb.org]