Glossary

CADRE Glossary

Abbreviations

• RAC - Research Assets Commons
• QI - Query Interface
• FLS - Federated Login System
• WoS - Web of Science (data set)
• MAG - Microsoft Academic Graph (data set)
• PTO - Patent and Trademark Office (data set)

Terms

• Research Assets Commons - Marketplace where users can store and consume existing piplines of data and algorithms
• Notebook - method by which users can run custom code against CADRE data sets
• Query Interface - main interface where users can query CADRE data sets. Includes query builder and notebooks.
• Cadre Data Sets or just Data Sets - the main datasets (WoS, MAG, PTO) in all their database forms
• Data Subset - Result set of data that can be stored in RAC or used for further queries
• GraphQL - type of API that requires well formed JSON queries to fetch data rather than separate REST endpoints
• Data API - a web API that will act as a proxy so the QI can securely access the Cadre Data Sets
• CADRE Network - the network of cadre servers including API, Web, and Database servers.
• Server - Computer that is used to host microservices or databases. Can be actual nodes or VMs in a cloud solution
• Cadre Auth Token - an authentication token created by the FLS used to authenticate a user across the CADRE Network Servers