Glossary of Terms

The purpose of this page is to define terms used throughout the architecture

Controlled Vocabulary (CV)

In order to facilitate data sharing and unambiguous interpretation of data between different data stewards and users, it is imperative to share a common vocabulary. When implemented in a data system, there are rules dictating what terms are available to be used, and what those terms mean. These rules comprise a controlled vocabulary. CUAHSI has a good exmaple of a controlled vocabulary system for environmental data. http://his.cuahsi.org/mastercvreg/cv11.aspx

ETL

Extract, Transform, Load. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract,_transform,_load

FROST

A Server implementation of the OGC SensorThings API. The FRaunhofer Opensource SensorThings-Server is the first complete, open-source implementation of the OGC SensorThings API Part 1: Sensing. It now also includes preliminary actuation support.https://github.com/FraunhoferIOSB/FROST-Server

GAE

Google App Engine

GCP

Google Cloud Platform

GOST

GOST (Go-SensorThings) is an IoT Platform written in Golang (Go). It implements the Sensing profile (part 1) of the OGC SensorThings API standard including the MQTT extension. https://github.com/gost/server

SensorThings (ST)

A a data model plus a REST API standard. Defined by the OGC specification.

SensorThings data model can be found here.

WDIETL

Extracts the data from a datasource, transforms into the ST data model and uploads