Glossary
This glossary has been created with feedback from you on terms that are commonly used in the web industry. For those of us not fully immersed we hope you'll find this useful and continue to add to it by contacting us at lgwebnetwork at lgsa.org.au
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Accessibility: Accessibility is the practice of including those sections of the community who might be denied access to web sites and information via disability, e.g. sight impairment or hearing impaired visitors.
API: Application Programming Interface Software software that allows different pieces of software to interact with each other
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Backchannel: A Backchannel is the practice of using computers, or personal digital devices to maintain real time conversations alongside live spoken remarks. Usually takes place at conferences and other events
Blogosphere: a term used to describe total blogs on the internet and conversations taking place in that sphere
Blogroll: A list of sites displayed in the sidebar of a blog, showing who the blogger reads regularly
Browser: An application for viewing the internet and also other media, such as file or photo browsers. Most commonly used browsers are Internet Explorer and Firefox
Web 2.0 Interactive Web Applications
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CMS: Content Management System: A Web content management system (WCM, WCMS or Web CMS) is content management system (CMS) software, implemented as a Web application, for creating and managing HTML content. It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML documents and their associated images). A WCMS facilitates content creation, content control, editing, and essential Web maintenance functions. The software provides authoring (and other) tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of programming languages or markup languages to create and manage content with relative ease.
Crowd Sourcing: The practice of involving the public (or sections thereof) who are otherwise unconnected to produce data or assist in decision making.
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Government 2.0: Government 2.0 is the utilisation of Web2.0 based technologies in combination with new theories on Open Government. This allows for the development of new Government and Non-Government services and products.
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HTML: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the foundation language used for all websites.
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Information Architecture: The method of organising and labeling a website
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Mash ups: a mash up is a web application that combines data/code from more than one source into a new/different application. For example map data from Google to add location information to real estate data creating a new service that was not originally provided by either source
Metadata: Data about data, information for assisting search engines to categorise and determine the relevance of webpages and other data.
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Open Source software: Open Source Software is software released under an Open license structure. At the core, this allows the recipient to access the source code and make changes without charge.
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PDF: Portable Document Format A file format created by Adobe
Podcast: audio program/recording packaged for playback on mp3 players
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RSS: Really Simple Syndication An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed") includes full or summarized text, plus data such as publishing dates and authorship. Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them push out "syndicate" content automatically.
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Scraper: Software that extracts information from websites
Search engine optimisation (SEO) SEO is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a website from serch engines via targeted keywords.
Social Media: A term for interactive websites like Facebook and Twitter which encourage users to create data as well as consume it.
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Usability: The process of developing features and structure to best support ease of use
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Vodcast: video program/recording packages for playback on electronic devices
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Wiki: A wiki is a page or collection of pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content using a WYSIWYG editor
WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get is a term used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed during editing appears very similar to the final output
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