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| Term | Description | Reference |
| Access Registration Module | The ADDSIA module which deals with user rights and privileges. | Section 2 |
| ADDSIA server | An informative server for ADDSIA which contains domain URLs and some general domain description. | Section 1 |
| Administrator (Domain or Provider) | A manager who controls access and subscribes data to domains | |
| Basic Variables | Variables of the original NSI dataset. Only experts may manipulate them directly (although they do not of course change the underlying dataset, only the aggregates derived from them). | |
| Casual user | External customer assumed to have no knowledge, and to want a quick answer. No registration required | |
| Confidentiality | Guarding against disclosure - ensuring that the privacy of respondents is assured | |
| Consolidated Variables | Variables created in the ADDSIA system, either by NSI officials, or by Expert users. They are created by defining transforms on Basic variables. After passing some quality criteria, they are ‘published’ in the ADDSIA system, so all normal users have access to them. They may occur in one or several sites. | |
| Customer | An internal (to that organisation) or external user of the data | |
| Data Provider | An organisation (for example an NSI) which makes its data available to a particular Domain. Same as Provider | |
| Disclosure | The identification of individuals (persons of businesses) usually through a unique combination of dataset variables | |
| Domain | An area of investigation where it makes sense to compare datasets | |
| Domain DB | Domain database - for handling user access and other domain related issues | |
| Domain Server | The ADDSIA module which manages the software central to a Domain | |
| Expert user | External customer expected to know how to find his way around, and to have good substantive knowledge | |
| External customers | A customer who does not belong to the Provider institute See User modes | |
| External representation | Of macrodata | Section 3 |
| File Description language | A language for defining the structure of a macro table | |
| Implicit representation | Of macrodata | Section 3 |
| Indicators | Variables that are created by NSIs, and have public acceptability. They will normally be from harmonised datasets, or where there is official agreement on their meaning and provenance. | |
| Internal customers | A customer who belongs to the Provider institute. See User modes | |
| Macrodata | Data that has already been aggregated from microdata | |
| MAOB | Macro Object: the internal representation of an ADDSIA aggregate. | |
| MetaData Server | A specialised server for handling free text metadata | |
| Macro relation | a set of macro objects with a number (n) of category attributes and a number (m) of summary attributes summarising an underlying numerical attribute. | D7.2 |
| Meta relation | a set of tables associated with a macro relation | D7.2 |
| Reference table | a meta table relating the classification in the associated macro relation to a global ontology | |
| Meta table | a table associated with a macro relation | |
| Conversion table | a meta table relating the units of the associated macro relation to a global unit | |
| Notes table | a meta table holding notes referring to the associated macro relation | |
| Survey table | a metatable holding the sample size of the associated macro relation | |
| Microdata | Data held at the level of individual records | |
| MIMAD table | MicroMacroData [Sadreddini, M.H., Bell, D.A., McClean, S.I. 91] a MAOB or MIOB | |
| MIOB | Micro Object - a representation of microdata | |
| Native Data | Data supplied by an NSI | |
| Normal user | External customer prepared to invest some time in learning the system, with a little knowledge, but may lack background information | |
| NSI | National Statistical Institute | |
| Operator | Internal user with low privileges, e.g. producing routine publications. | |
| Plug-in Format | A set of information that determines how a table will be rendered in a particular software format. | |
| Plug-in Style | A set of information that determines the appearance and layout of a table. | |
| Presentation | Results prepared for direct response to a user | |
| Pre-SIM | A pre-processor of statistical data, used if the native data is not in an RDBMS format. | |
| Provider | An organisation (for example an NSI) which makes its data available to a particular Domain. Same as Data Provider | |
| Provider DB (P-DB) | Provider database that holds user access rights for a particular Provider. | |
| Provider Server | The ADDSIA module which manages the software at a particular Provider site | |
| Provider Site | The computer(s) of a particular Provider | |
| Publication | Results prepared for a third party: e.g. prepared by a NSI for official distribution | |
| Respondent | A person who responds to a survey: also taken to be the individual whose administrative details appear in a statistical dataset. | |
| SIM | Secure Interface Module: the module responsible for accessing native data. | |
| Statistician | An Internal Expert User. | |
| Style Formatting Module | The module which, together with the Plug-in Style and the Plug-in Format, creates a table for presentation or publication. | |
| Table | The output of a statistical analysis, presented in tabular form | |
| Table model | The ADDSIA internal representation of a table, ready for input to the Style Formatting Module. | |
| Table module | The ADDSIA module which takes a MAOB from the Query module, converts it to a table model, and passes it to the Style Formatting Module | |
| Transform | An algorithm applied to a set of variables to produce a new variable. | |
| User | Any user of the system: a Customer or Administrator | |
| User modes | The different ways in which a user may access ADDSIA. For details, see Casual User, Normal User, Expert user, Statistician Operator | |
| UUI | Unified User Interface: the module which gives an interface to the ADDSIA system to all Users |
A user connects directly to an ADDSIA domain. However, a general
Informative ADDSIA Server may exist that contains domain URLs and some
general domain description. This information is supplied from the Domain
Administrator when a new domain is set up. In addition, this Informative
Server may maintain an ADDSIA mailing list. Domains may contain URLs of
other domains in case a user wishes to switch and log on to another
domain.
Section 2: the Access Registration Module
This module controls users' rights and privileges.
An implicit representation of a macro table
An explicit representation of a macro table