Vocabularies — view dictionary terms
DIC_META_GLOSSARY (125 rows)
Dictionary table of terms available to applications as Glossary Entries. This is designed for use within the Technical Metadata application but could be adopted for use in other applications.
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| Row | CODE | GLOSS_CAT_CODE | TRANSLATION | DESCRIPTION | DATE_ENTERED | DATE_UPDATED | STATUS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 86 | META_THESA | METADATA | THESAURUS | A controlled vocabulary designed to support information retreval by guiding both the person assigning metadata and the searcher to choose the same terms for the same consepts. A thesaurus conforming to ISO 2788 (=BS 5723) supposrts navigation and term selection by showing relationships between terms that are close in meaning. | 07-OCT-05 | 10-FEB-06 | C |
| 87 | TNA | COMMON | TNA | The National Archive | 07-OCT-05 | 10-FEB-06 | C |
| 88 | UKCS | COMMON | UKCS | The UK Continental Shelf | 07-OCT-05 | 10-FEB-06 | C |
| 89 | META_UKSGB | METADATA | UKSGB | United Kingdom Standard Geographic Base | 07-OCT-05 | 10-FEB-06 | C |
| 90 | URL | COMMON | URL | Universal Resource Locator - technical name for the World Wide Web address such as http://www.bgs.ac.uk/ | 07-OCT-05 | 10-FEB-06 | C |
| 91 | META_APPLR | METADATA | APPLICATION LAYER | This layer of any system determines the interface with the User. | 07-OCT-05 | 10-FEB-06 | C |
| 92 | META_REPLI | METADATA | REPLICATION | The act and process of creating copies of databases, this may be across various sites or limited to a single location. This process will also require ongoing changes to be made to the database to maintain data syncronisation. | 10-OCT-05 | 10-FEB-06 | C |
| 93 | META_QLAYR | METADATA | QUERY LAYER | A set of standardised utilities within database and application design that provide read only access to the data objects in a database to present the data to the application interface layer in a simplified manner. | 10-OCT-05 | 10-FEB-06 | C |
| 94 | META_USERN | METADATA | USERNAME | A code often an abreviation of the owner`s name that identifies an individual to a particular application. | 09-FEB-06 | 10-FEB-06 | C |
| 95 | META_VIEW | METADATA | VIEW | A view is a custom-tailored presentation of the data in one or more tables. A view can also be thought of as a `stored query`. Views do not actually contain or store data; they derive their data from the tables on which they are based. Like tables, views can be queried, updated, inserted into, and deleted from, with some restrictions. All operations performed on a view affect it`s base tables. | 09-FEB-06 | 10-FEB-06 | C |
| 96 | META_PROJ | METADATA | PROJECT | A program of associated work that aims to achive a specific goal or goals, the project will have an associated budget and manager to achive this aim.. | 09-FEB-06 | 10-FEB-06 | C |
| 97 | META_OBJT | METADATA | OBJECT | An individual item or structure in the database that contains, filters, controls or acts upon data or the database in some way, this can include but is not limited to tables, views and triggers. | 09-FEB-06 | 10-FEB-06 | C |
| 98 | META_BUSRL | METADATA | BUSINESS RULES | An item of Business logic that is applied to a particular database object or collection of database objects. | 09-FEB-06 | 10-FEB-06 | C |
| 99 | META_SEQ | METADATA | SEQUENCE | A sequence generates a serial list of unique numbers for numeric columns of a database`s tables. | 09-FEB-06 | 10-FEB-06 | C |
| 100 | META_FUNC | METADATA | FUNCTION | A an oracle object a function provides a reusable piece of code that is available to a number of other functions and procedures. | 09-FEB-06 | 10-FEB-06 | C |
| 101 | META_PACK | METADATA | PACKAGE | A group of related stored procedures. | 09-FEB-06 | 10-FEB-06 | C |
| 102 | META_TRIG | METADATA | TRIGGER | A stored procedure that starts (is fired) in responce to a particular event occuring within the database. | 09-FEB-06 | 10-FEB-06 | C |
| 103 | META_SYN | METADATA | SYNONYM | An alternative name for a particular database object, this name can be used to access the object in exactly the same way as the object`s true name. | 09-FEB-06 | 10-FEB-06 | C |
| 104 | META_MATVW | METADATA | MATERIALISED VIEW | A materialized view provides access to table data by storing the results of a query in a separate schema object (table) this is not refreshed every time the view is called. | 09-FEB-06 | 10-FEB-06 | C |
| 105 | META_ALERT | METADATA | ALERTS | A system of regularly scheduled SQL queries that provide the Database operators with data quality information. | 09-FEB-06 | 10-FEB-06 | C |
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