The Interop Glossary
An evolving vocabulary for the law of interoperability governing electronic data format and communication protocol technical specifications, standards, and technical regulations.
- technical regulation
- Under the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade, "a document which lays down product characteristics or their related processes and production methods, including the applicable administrative provisions, with which compliance is mandatory. It may also include or deal exclusively with terminology, symbols, packaging, marking or labeling requirements as they apply to a product, process or production method." For a leading case interpreting the definition, see WTDS 135 EC - Asbestos ¶¶ 66-70. The definition is found in ATBT Annex 1 § 1.
- technical specification
- A term of art under the Agreement on Government Procurement. "Technical specifications lay[] down the characteristics of the products or services to be procured, such as quality, performance, safety and dimensions, symbols, terminology, packaging, marking and labelling, or the processes and methods for their production[."] (Quoted from AGP article VI § 1.) A specification may simultaneously be a standard, a technical regulation, or a technical specification in different contexts. Also commonly referred to as a "procurement specification."
- transclusion
- The inclusion of a document or document part into another document, temporarily by reference rather than by embedding the same content. It is a feature of substitution templates. For example, a web page document viewed in a browser often includes content transcluded from a variety of documents or document parts originating from different servers, producing a compound document. Transclusion has among its advantages the maintenance of a single editing point for recurring content, allowing changes in one document "part" to be automatically propagated to all other documents that transclude the edited document. Transclusion can be thought of as a method of interoperability. See generally Wikipedia article.
- transition technologies
- Technologies capable of connecting legacy systems and applications to emerging information systems. In SOA-speak, these technologies are often called "connectors," which is different from that of "converters." SOA converters are used to connect legacy systems via a common XML layer, which is then used to wire legacy systems and applications into advancing web ready systems. A common transition would be from client/server workgroup oriented workflows to that of client/Web/server business processes. An example is the use of the OOXML Microsoft Office plug-in (Microsoft Compatibility Pack) to perfect a transition to a new stack alignment of Microsoft Office/Exchange/ SharePoint/MS-SQL.
- triple
- An n-tuple with three objects.
- TTS
- Teletypesetter. The TTS telegraphy code was introduced in 1928 to enable the Associated Press telegraphy network to distribute news articles in a format that did not require rekeyboarding to be typeset. TTS was input and output as 6-bit punched paper tape. TTS was the first commercially successful digital markup language/communication protocol that included code for presentation purposes. Most modern desktop publishing systems and word processors are based on fundamental software methods and concepts first commercialized in the newspaper publishing industry for use with TTS code.
- tuple
- In mathematics and computer science, a tuple is a finite sequence (also known as an "ordered list") of objects, each of a specified type. A tuple containing n objects is known as an "n-tuple". For example the 4-tuple (or "quadruple"), with components of respective types PERSON, DAY, MONTH and YEAR, could be used to record that a certain person was born on a certain day of a certain month of a certain year. When the term 'tuple" is used by itself without specifying the number of objects, in programming the automated processing of ordered word processing lists, the general assumption is that n=2, the ordered alphanumeric character or symbol and the text or other content that follows in the same paragraph. See Wikipedia article.
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