General

Action bar #

is a listing of various actions like „display“, „edit“ and „configure“. These actions can be applied to any active displayed object.

Application #

A program for solving particular tasks, like the creation of documents.

Category #

Criteria for the classification of pages and objects (like „Location: Munich“ or „Target group: co-worker“)

Category management #

is an area in the Zope Management Interface (ZMI), in which categories can be defined and edited.

Content #

identifies the content of a webpage (such as discussion comments, news, documents, files etc.).

Content Management System #

a software system where web contents can be administered (Management). Content, application logic and presentation are stored separately to obtain more flexibility in the management.

CSS2-Orientation #

The display of a HTML page in the browser is governed by so called Styles. In the styles you will for example decide on what kind of lettering, size or color is to be applied or what kind of edge distance a text contains. CSS2 is the current standard for defining styles.

GNU #

stands for GNU's Not Unix, an alternative for the development of a free version of Unix of the Free Software Foundation. With regard to license questions GNU is often applied in connection with the concept GPL.

GPL #

is the abbreviation of General Public License and labels software which is available as source code for free copying and modifying. Software which makes use of GPL-software also fall under GPL.

LDAP Server #

A program which provides a directory with varied information such as personal data, E-mail addresses and other resources. It can be queried via the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

Multilingualism #

describes the ability of the system to save and display contents in various languages. You can shift between different languages. Through the application of Unicode the display of texts with any kind of character is ensured.

Meta data #

Information which identifies the content of a document. Typical Metadata are: title, description, keywords, author, rights, date, language and category. Metadata help to restore documents.

Navigation #

consists of a list with links which makes it possible for the user to get to particular areas of the webpage. The navigation also serves as an overview of the information available on the webpage.

Object #

is any element in the system (like a folder, a document, news or a user).

Platform #

The hardware architecture/operating system (PC, Mac, Linux etc.)

Platform independence #

ZOPE can be installed on any kind of operating system.

Portal #

A Portal is the internet homepage of an information service for a specific topic. The principal task of a portal is to give the user a single point of access to different information. Through various functions like search engines, Email, discussion forums and current news a portal provides the user with a structured access to relevant content that is as simple as possible.

Portlet #

A portlet is a component of the portal in which certain information within the site of the portal can be displayed in the browser. Thus the portlet is able to draw its data from the local web server or other data source. The following views describe the features of the portlet closer: 1. From the user's point of view a portlet is an application which he or she is able to display and configure in his (or her) own portal site to show personalized data. 2. From the Content Manager's point of view a portlet is a possibility to provide selective content. 3. From the Portal Manager's point of view a portlet is a content container. This container is registered in the portal, so that a user can apply it. 4. From the portal's point of view a portlet is a displaying component within a page. 5. From the programmer's point of view a portlet is a code fragment. The code fragment is completed on a portal server and supplies the portlet with content.

Sitemap #

is an overview of all pages of a website in short form. The pages are listed according to title. If a short description of the page is available, it will also be displayed. Every page title will be displayed as a link, through which you can navigate to the page.

Skin #

A Skin is an exchangeable interface of the Content Management System. Various Skins are available in the system. With the Skin it is possible to respond to the specific requests of the user, who for example wants to access the system with PDAs, Mobil telephones or Braille-Displays.

SSL Security #

is the abbreviation of Secure Socket Layer and describes the technique of how to identify a server as authentic and to encode the data traffic between server and user.

Structured text #

is a collection of instructions how to indent and mark the various components of a text (like heading, enumerations, breaks etc.). If the rules of Structured Text are observed, the computer is able to make HTML code of the written text.

Syndication #

Partnership between two websites, whereby the first website links the content of the second.

Template #

Layout format for a webpage, which defines the characteristic design of the page.

User role #

The Content Management System contains a line of predefined roles for the user. 1. The anonymous User: is an unregistered user, who is only able to view the various public webpages. 2. Members: A Member can contribute to the community and create content in certain areas. 3. Content manager: The content manager administrates the content of the systems (such as documents, news, images etc.) and connects these with other contents through linking. 4. Manager/Administrator: The administrator is responsible for the operation of the Content Management System (like controlling log files in the system, supervising the data bank, installing new modules etc.) Besides the above there are also further user roles, which can be imported by the installation of add-on products (like news area). The news manager for example is responsible for a particular news area.

User management #

is a subarea of the Zope Management Interface (ZMI), in which users, groups, profiles and roles can be managed. The user management is located on the tab Security.

Unicode #

A table which allows the coding of about 65000 characters. The characters of the most important languages of the world are already defined there.

Versioning #

is the archiving of older versions of pages and objects in the archive. When saving the changes of a page the previous version will automatically be archived as “the old version”. If an object is replaced by a new object version, the old versions of the object are automatically archived, so that only the current version is directly available.

Version management #

In the area „Versions management“ (of the systems) it is possible to file different versions of an object. Thus the user will still be able to access older versions.

WebDAV #

is the abbreviation for Web-Distributing, Authoring and Versioning. It describes a technique by which the editing of webpages can be simplified. WebDAV consists of HTTP extensions which specify a standard for the exchange of data between web authoring tools and web servers. With WebDAV internet documents can be read and created as local data.

Workflow #

A tool in the system for the structuring of work flows within a business corporation. Work flows present a line of successive tasks, which stand in a fixed order to each other. The tool supports the assignment of tasks to the respective editor in the right order.

ZMI #

Zope Management Interface. A view of all objects of a ZOPE server. From there all the necessary management actions on the system can be executed.

Acrobat #

Acrobat is a program from Adobe that lets you capture a document and then view it in its original format and appearance. Acrobat is ideal for making documents or brochures that were designed for the print medium viewable electronically and capable of being shared with others on the Internet. To view an Acrobat document, which is called a Portable Document Format (PDF) file, you need Acrobat Reader. The Reader is free and can be downloaded from Adobe. You can use it as a standalone reader or as a plug-in in a Web browser.

Apache #

Apache is one of the world's most widely used Web servers. Originally developed in 1995 by a group that was to go on to become the The Apache Group, the Apache HTTP Server is Open Source Software and considered by proponents to be fast, scalable and secure. The name was derived from the projects less robust beginnings ('A patchy Web server').

API #

A group of routines, which can be called by a program in order to perform specific tasks. Operating systems and device drivers are equipped with an API, which enables them to exchange data with an application.

Authentification #

Technique by which access to internet or intranet resources requires the user to enter a username and password as identification.

Cache #

A stored copy of (or pointers to) previously accessed data. The main implementation in computer architecture is to use a small area of very fast memory to store copies of recently accessed information from your main memory (RAM) or hard drive, which are a lot slower. In web browsers, page data is cached on the local hard drive to speed site access while reducing bandwidth demands. Alternatively, site templating engines such as Smarty (PHP), Velocity (Java) and Cheetah (Python) use caching to speed up the delivery of dynamically generated content while reducing server demands.

CMF #

The Content Management Framework is a Zope addition to provide services that a Content Management system needs.

Databases #

The Zope Object Database (ZODB) is used to store all the pages, files and other objects, you create. It is fast and requires almost no setting up or maintenance. Like a file system, it is especially good at storing moderately-sized binary objects such as graphics. Relational Databases work in a very different way. They are based on tables of data. Information in the table is stored in rows. A standard language, called the Structured Query Language (SQL), is used to query and change tables in relational databases.

Dreamweaver #

A program from Macromedia that allows you to edit web pages and manage web sites through a graphical environment.

DTML #

Document Template Markup Language. A tag-based reporting language (like ASP or PHP). It allows you to perform operations on Zope objects and insert the results in web pages. For more information on DTML see the DTML chapter of The Zope Book.

E-documentation #

Documentation that is stored entirely in digital form. Due to that fact, it can use new possibilities like slide shows or interactive components.

Electronic Document Management #

An EDM system allows an enterprise and its users to create a document or capture a hard copy in electronic form, store, edit, print, process and otherwise manage documents in image, video and audio, as well as in text form. An EDM system may include scanners for document capture, printers for creating hard copy, storage devices and computer server and server programs for managing the databases that contains the documents

EDP processing and information systems #

Electronic Data Processing.

EAI #

Enterprise Application Integration. A set of processes, software and hardware tools, methodologies and technologies. When implemented together, they have the aim of consolidating, connecting and organizing all of a businesses computer applications, data and business processes (both legacy and new) into a seamlessly interfaced framework of system components to allow real-time exchange, management and easy reformulation of all of a companies mission critical information and knowledge.

Extranet #

A protected area in the Internet, in which, for example, corporate information intended only for customers, partners or suppliers is published. Access to the Extranet is granted by user name and password.

FAQ #

Frequently Asked Questions. FAQs are documents that list and answer the most common questions on a particular subject. There are hundreds of FAQs on subjects as diverse as Pet Grooming and Cryptography. FAQs are usually written by people, who are tired of answering the same question over and over.

FTP #

File Transfer Protocol. Technical communications standard that controls file transfers via Intra- and Extranets and via the Internet. To transfer a file, FTP is started and a connection to the target computer is established.

HTML #

HyperText Markup Language. The coding language used to create Hypertext documents for use on the World Wide Web. HTML looks a lot like old-fashioned typesetting code, where you surround a block of text with codes that indicate, how it should appear.

HTTP #

Hypertext Transfer Protocol. One of many Internet protocols that is responsible for transferring web pages. Formally, web addresses must be prefaced with "http://" because this is how, the web browser knows that the HTTP protocol is used to transfer the content. HTTP is the most important protocol used in the World Wide Web (WWW).

Implementation #

The process of translating a design into hardware components, software components, or both.

Intranet #

A private network inside a company or organization that uses the same kinds of software that you would find on the public Internet, but that is only for internal use.

Microsoft Active Directory #

Active Directory is Microsoft's trademarked directory service, an integral part of the Windows 2000 architecture. Like other directory services, such as LDAP or NT Domain, Active Directory is a centralized and standardized system that automates network management of user data, security and distributed resources and enables inter operation with other directories.

MySQL #

A free, open-source database, commonly employed with most of the popular server-side scripting languages including PHP, JSP and ASP.

Microsoft IIS #

Microsoft Internet Information Server is a web server that is distributed with the windows platform by default.

Migration #

Migration is the mostly automated process, through which you upgrade your web server instance to a new release level.

Oracle #

Oracle is arguably the most powerful and popular commercial relational database. It is, however, relatively expensive and complex.

Personalization #

Content can be personalized by country, publication date, subject or even user. Personalization tools can use web registration information to make intelligent choices, when serving content to a web page to make the browsing experience more valuable.

Plug-in #

A piece of software that adds features to a larger piece of software. Common examples are plug-ins for the Netscape® browser and web server. Adobe Photoshop also uses plug-ins.

POP #

Point of Presence, also Post Office Protocol. A Point of Presence usually means a city or location, where a network can be connected to, often with dial up phone lines. So if an Internet company says, they will soon have a POP in Belgrade, it means that they will soon have a local phone number in Belgrade and/or a place, where leased lines can connect to their network. A second meaning, Post Office Protocol refers to a way that e-mail client software, such as Eudora, gets mail from a mail server. When you obtain an account from an Internet Service Provider (ISP), you almost always get a POP account with it. It is then this POP account that you tell your e-mail software to use to get your mail. Another protocol called IMAP is replacing POP for email.

PostgreSQL #

PostgreSQL is a leading open source relational database with good support for SQL standards.

RDBMS #

Relational DataBase Management System. A Tool that provides operations to retrieve the data from multiple tables, so that the user sees the data in single table form. One of the most popular free open source database tools currently available is MySQL. Others are PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server.

Relational database #

A relational database stores data in one or more tables, which relate to each other through common values.

ROI #

Return On Investment.

RSS #

Rich Site Summary or RDF Site Summary or Real Simple Syndication. A commonly used protocol for syndication and sharing of content, originally developed to facilitate the syndication of news articles, now widely used to share the contents of blogs. RSS is an XML-based summary of a web site, usually used for syndication and other kinds of content-sharing. There are RSS "feeds", which are sources of RSS information about web sites and RSS "readers", which read RSS feeds and display their content to users.

Scalability #

The ability to extend the capacity of a service due to increased demand.

SMB #

Small to Medium Businesses.

SMTP #

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. The main protocol used to send electronic mail from server to server on the Internet.

SQL #

Structured Query Language. A specialized language for sending queries to databases. Most industrial-strength and many smaller database applications can be addressed using SQL. Each specific application will have its own slightly different version of SQL implementing features unique to that application, but all SQL-capable databases support a common subset of SQL.

TAL #

Template Attribute Language. The Template Attribute Language is an Attribute Language used to create dynamic templates. By marking elements of your HTML or XML document with TAL statement attributes, you can replace parts of the document with dynamically computed content. You can insert text or portions of other documents, repeat elements such as list tags or table rows or choose, whether or not to include optional parts.

TCP/IP #

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. This is the suite of protocols that defines the Internet. Originally designed for the UNIX operating system, TCP/IP software is now included with every major kind of computer operating system. To be truly on the Internet, your computer must have TCP/IP software.

Version control #

Version control allows you to manage the lifecycle of a document from conception to final copy, with the ability to roll back versions and track usage within all versions. Only one person at a time can check out a document or file from the library, although people can access the current version and get a copy of the latest version if required. Once this person updates the document and checks it back in, a new version is created.

Wikis #

The simplest online database that could possibly work. Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and cross links between internal pages on the fly. Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms, in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself. Like many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page in a Web site is exciting, in that it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users.

WYSIWYG #

What You See Is What You Get. Program feature that, for example, displays HTML files in a graphical environment, so that even while they are being edited, they appear the same way they will later in a browser.

XML-RPC #

XML Remote Procedure Call. A protocol for client-server communication that sends and receives information on top of HTTP. The data sent and received is in a particular XML format specifically designed for use with XMLRPC.

XML #

Extensible Markup Language. A widely used system for defining data formats. XML provides a very rich system to define complex documents and data structures such as invoices, molecular data, news feeds, glossaries, inventory descriptions, real estate properties, etc. As long as a programmer has the XML definition for a collection of data (often called a "schema"), then they can create a program to reliably process any data formatted according to those rules.

ZOPE #

Zope is an open source web application server written in Python. elevateIT uses Zope.