Glossary

Here is a place for a glossary of terms used throughout the SHARE project

term	definition
scrAPI	The core for the SHARE Notification Service. ScrAPI processes documents from the various consumers and outputs the metadata in a normalized format.
scrAPI-tools	A set of tools developed to facilitate the development of new consumers for SHARE content providers. Git repo can be found at http://github.com/fabianvf/scrapi-tools.git
core	the SHARE core, also known as scrAPI.
schema	defined representations of document types, such as what information might be required for a submission to be considered an article, citation, or dataset, or what types of information should be searchable.
content provider	A new service to be added to scrAPI that (1) is on the SHARE priority list and has been vetted and met required SHARE criteria or (2) may be a priority for other reasons and has an API
consumer in scrAPI	an application which accesses a service via API, consumes the content, and normalizes it for inclusion in the search engine in scrAPI. Note that this is distinct from "consumer"
user	Consumer in the in the context of the SHARE Notification Service Architectural Overview - the subscriber to notifications.
resource	The metadata gathered by a consumer about any given resource - also a NormalizedDocument returned by scrAPI
report	a single metadata that was output by a consumer
record	The metadata gathered by a consumer about any given resourceMockup