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Glossary

The following terms are used throughout bam-masterdata and are defined here for clarity.

Masterdata

The term Masterdata describes all information structures and plugins that are used to define metadata in openBIS (i.e., masterdata = "meta-metadata"). It includes

  • Entity types (Collection, Object, Dataset types)
  • Property types
  • Controlled vocabularies
  • Related scripts (e.g., dynamic property plugins, entity validation scripts)