Purpose
- Provide concise definitions so HRL partners use consistent terminology across agencies and workstreams.
Terms to define
- Data Producers – Organizations responsible for collecting and publishing source data under approved protocols.
- Central Data Team – Interagency engineers/scientists who run ingestion, storage, serving, and shared tooling.
- Synthesis Teams – Analysts generating models, indicators, and reports from curated datasets.
- Static Publication – GitHub + EDI workflow for releasing citable datasets with metadata and DOIs.
- Ingestion and Standardization – Pipelines that harmonize datasets, enforce schemas, and track provenance.
- Storage and Serving – Infrastructure and catalogs that keep curated datasets durable and accessible.
- Analysis and Synthesis – Reproducible modeling/analysis projects that produce derived products.
- Reporting and Communication – Annual, triennial, and final reports derived from lifecycle outputs.
- Additional vocabulary (FAIR, CARE, DOI, EML, data catalog, semantic versioning, etc.) with cross-links to standards pages.
Maintenance
- Note owners for approving new terms or edits and the cadence for reviewing glossary updates.
- Describe how glossary entries will be cross-linked throughout the site and in quickstarts.