Terminology
This section summarises the terminology that is used within this document. More details about each of the terms is given in the rest of the document.
Artifacts
- Address
- The name of a web
document, by means of which a user agent can access it. Web standards call this a
URL, URI or IRI.
- Alias
- An alternative address for a web document that redirects
requests to the main address
- Link
- A pointer, visible
within a web page, which points
to a web document
- Web Content
- Sets of web documents.
- Web Document
- For the purposes of this
document, anything available on the Web, such as text
(plain, HTML, PDF, . . .), images, video, audio, style
sheets and scripts, that is, anything hosted by a web server that may be accessed by a user agent. When the agent is a
web browser, top-level access usually results in a user viewing a web page.
- Web Page
- What the user sees and/or hears when
a web browser accesses a web document.
Actions
- Access
- To retrieve a web document
using it address, and display or otherwise process it. Such
processing may involve accessing additional web documents which are embedded or included, recursively. . .
- Archive
- To permanently store a
copy of a web document that is
hosted elsewhere
- Cache
- To store a copy of a web document that is hosted elsewhere and which is
updated when the original web document changes
- Copy
- In the context of this document, the duplication of bits from one place to another place. Since copy is an imprecise term, we have tried to use more specific terms such as cache, relay, alias and include.
- Relay
- To provide access to a
web document hosted elsewhere without keeping a copy
- Embed
- To include one web document (such as text, an image,
some audio or a video) within a web
page such that it is visible/audible to a user
- Host
- To provide access to a web document.
- Include
- To access a web document, such as an image, script
or stylesheet, while processing another web document
- Index
- To extract information
from a web document that is
hosted by another server into a structure that improves
retrieval of that web document,
or of a link to that web document
- Transform
- To change a web document, for example by reformatting, resizing or transcoding
- Upload
- To send a file to a web server so that it is given
an address and is available as
a web document