As with any technical process, there is some vocabulary that is important to understand.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aggregation | Collecting data from one or more source documents into Data Sets or Domains. |
| Data Set | Partition of data within a System, such as ‘PRD data’ or ‘3pp data’ in the ‘pf1 system’. |
| Domain | Collection of Data Sets within a System, used for publication. The ‘All’ Domain in the ‘pf1 system’ contains PRD, 3PP, PZO, ERS_DATA, ERS_COMMON Data Sets. |
| Index | File of search strings, used to resolved references in document text and metadata. |
| Master | File of document and game/business content, to be used as a data store when Packaging. |
| Packaging | Restructuring a document from ‘data source’ to ‘document for publication’, including copying content from a domain’s Master file. |
| System | Game system or business subject (I’ve used this for publishing database documentation). |
| Transformation | The act or process of changing data from one form to another. |