| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| Data | **Electronic data of any type. It could be simple data or composite data. ** |
| Database | A software system that stores and manages data. |
| Schema | Machine readable definition of data. |
| Actor (Subject) | A person, entity, or a thing who/which has been identified. |
| Transaction/ Interaction Data | Data representing details of an interaction/transaction that was done among one or more actors within a system. |
| SoR (System of Record) | A software system that is the primary system to enable a specific set of transactions/interactions through a set of workflows and user interfaces. Identities of actors participating in these transactions/interactions maybe linked to a registry. |
| Registration | Act of registering/enrolling the actor into a system |
| Claim | A statement that is made by an actor which can be verified. |
| Attestation | An act of verifying and authorizing specific data in a digitally signed fashion by an authorized individual/entity (whose identities are typically linked to some other registries). |
| Discovery | **An act of finding specific entries in a registry through a search/find mechanism. ** |
| Assertion | An act of verifying a claim. |
| Consent | Approval of an actor given to another person/system to access the data of that actor for purposes of transaction/interaction. |
| Credential | Digitally represented verifiable artifacts containing a qualification, achievement, milestone, fact, etc issued to an actor for them to be able to make claims. |
| Registry | An Electronic Registry is a system, acting as a single source of truth that houses a set of common attributes of the actor in a trustable (attested) and non-repudiable (audited) fashion, made available in the control of the actor enabling actors to authenticate themselves and make claims about them with their consent which can be electronically verified by 3rd party systems. |