Profile Report
Definition: Profile or statistical reports are predominately compilations of numerical figures for descriptive purposes. What This Means: These reports are extremely useful references for facts describing official statistics for comparison purposes. Need another definition?
Process Management
Definition: Process management is the focus on how activities are performed across an organization, without being bound by organizational structure. What This Means: See APQC. Most education agencies are functionally managed, e.g., food services, finance, instruction, HR, etc. Many processes are cross-functional, ...
Privacy Restriction
Definition: Privacy Restriction is a determination of the confidentiality of a data element or data collection. An item is considered restricted if it is thought that access to the item might lead to a compromise of security or confidentiality. Generally this ...
Primary Key Order
Definition: Primary Key Order is if the field is part of the primary key for the table, then the position it appears in is a composite key. If the field is the sole component of the primary key then this field ...
Primary Key
Definition: Within a database, the primary key is the element that is used to link records. What This Means: The unique statewide student identifier has become the most famous primary key, used to link a student's records across years, schools, and even ...
Presentation Layer
Definition: The second highest layer (layer 6) in the OSI seven layer model is the presentation layer. It performs functions such as text compression, code or format conversion to try to smooth out differences between hosts. It allows incompatible processes in ...
Precision
Definition: Precision is the number of decimal places for numeric data. What This Means: A term that is functional for users of ESP's metadata dictionary tool, called DataSpecs. DataSpecs is used when developing an education agency's data dictionary. Need another definition?
Post
Definition: Publishing data to a web site. What This Means: We used to say disseminate, distribute, pass out, send, mail, etc. Now, with web sites, blogs, and other electronic media, the word most often used is “post.” Need another definition?
Portlet
Definition: A portlet is an application or site that is accessible through a portal's user interface. What This Means: Portals manage a user’s experience with an agency’s information. Instead of sending the user off to another web site, a portal can open ...
Portal
Definition: A portal is a web "supersite" that provides a variety of services including web search, news, e-mail, discussion groups, and links to other sites. What This Means: Every education agency is likely to have a portal to manage communications and access ...
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