TROST: Open-System Trustworthiness

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This glossary provides definitions for the important terminology employed in TROSTing.  It includes technical terms and also ordinary terms that have specialized technical usage here.  In many cases, the glossary entries link to extended descriptions and bibliographic sources.  The current effort is to gather terms that require definition.   Definitions and linked explanatory material will follow later.

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Development Note: The following entry provides an initial definition list that can be used to start a new one where needed.  The other editing to perform is to change the link bar at the beginning of each alphabetic-letter group to a paragraph from an HTML <div> element.  Copy and paste the entire <dl> element and then pasted version.  All further entries under the same letter will then be added in front, among, or after the entries that are already in the (initial) list.

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accession number
in library and information science, a number assigned to a work when it is received or catalogued into a collection.  Accession numbering is an useful procedure for identifying material as it is introduced into a modest-sized collection.  On the TROSTing.org web site, chronologically-coded accession numbering systems employed.
  
accountability
  
accounting
  
adopter
the consumer or user of an artifact or system, especially related to computer systems and their networks; someone who incorporates a product into their practice
    
affordance
a possible action with an object recognized by an observer or actor [based on (Norman, 1998, pp.123-126)]; affordances are specific relationships of object and actor, not independent properties of an artifact; a perceived affordance need not be actualizable.
    
AIIM
originally: Association for Information and Image Management, now AIIM International; trade association that sponsored the ODMA coalition.
  
API
Application Program Interface; usually a programmatic interface that is defined for programmed access to services in libraries, middleware, or the computer operating system. 
   
architecture
[the structure of something, giving structure]
    
aspect
as in a view or perspective on something, or the face being shown to an observer [look it up]
    
assessment
a statement of opinion, a value judgment, an estimation whether or not based on good evidence (Solomon & Flores, 2001, p.120); TROSTing: an evaluation that provides assurance of the degree to which a quality of interest is achieved
  
assurance
the grounds for confidence that a product or service satisfies specific, identified criteria or policies, generalized from (Stoneburner, 2005; Common Criteria Project, 2005).
    
attestation
formal statement asserting something to be true; testament
  
authentication
  
authorization
  

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bootspiral
 
bootstrap
"to raise by ones own boot straps"; in computer systems, the process of starting an idle machine with a small program used to load a larger program that commences elaborate loading and initialization processes until the computer operating system and initial applications are underway.
   

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care
as in to care for, to care about, the outcome of the engagement, care about the participation and the relationship in which the participant maintains trustworthiness [see (Solomon & Flores, 2001, p.105)]
    
caring
having or giving care to something;
    
confidence
{vs. trust}
    
constructive engagement
{see Jon Udell, look up}
    
customer
{find good dictionary meaning that doesn't suggest consumer or commercial exchange.  We mean in the sense of next-in-line and ultimate customer, adopter.}
    

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dependability
{vs. trustworthiness; see also reliability}
  
design
{vs. architecture; think how this might be difference than style, mode, fashion and other uses of design.}

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engagement
as a form of distributed conversation and participation that happens in clouds among producers and adopters; we speak of trustworthy engagement
    
enterprise
{think if as related to activity and scale, not just organization style/size; check dictionary}
    

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ODMA
Open Document Management API; specified by the AIIM ODMA Coalition for providing interfaces and middleware for integrating document-management systems and desktop applications
   
ODMdev
Term for the basic structure supporting development of new ODMA components, established by a bootspiral performance
  
open system

Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model

OSI
1. Open Systems Interconnection, usually in reference to the OSI Reference Model.  2. Open Source Initiative.   

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participation
[the activity conducted among participants, look up a source for the sense we have in mind]
    
pattern
[the structure, appearance, regularity, ...]
    
pattern language
[the Christopher Alexander work]
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performance pattern
patterns that involve performance and process, characterized here using dataflow diagramming techniques

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reliability
vs. trustworthiness; see also dependability
  
reputation
vs. trust and trustworthiness
  
retrofit
to incorporate improvements or parts not originally included in (earlier versions of) a product

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safety
degree to which there are no dangerous failures, no threats to human life; failing well
    
scaffolding
[that stuff]
    
security
as opposed to safety and trustworthiness

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TROST
   Templates for Raising Open-System Trustworthiness
  
TROSTing
 
trust
is something given
  
trustworthiness
quality of being worthy of trust; something that must be earned and maintained; a trustworthy product is one that is a reflection of the trustworthiness of its producer
    
trustworthiness in artifacts
a projection of trustworthiness on artifacts; an extension of the trustworthiness of a producer to the product; aspects of an artifact that reflect the caring of a trustworthy supplier
    
trustworthy
literally, worthy of trust;
    
trustworthy engagement
a relationship (possibly diffuse) involving trust among the parties
    

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