Words worth understanding.
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Semantic
Information with a clear, stated meaning.
A machine-readable interpretation of a resource, its attributes and relationships.
Intent
What a person or system wants to achieve.
A typed, constrained outcome request that can be matched to supported capabilities.
Capability
Something a system can do.
An operation described by inputs, outputs, preconditions, authorization and effects.
Interoperability
Different digital systems working together.
Independent implementations exchanging portable contracts with consistent semantics.
Provenance
A record of where information came from.
Source identity, lineage, authorship, version and integrity evidence.
Federated discovery
Finding information across different independent sources.
Discovery across distributed registries under separate governance and trust policies.
Synchronisation
Keeping connected information consistent when things change.
Propagating versioned change signals while preserving approvals and conflict controls.
Intelligence-efficient computing
Doing useful work without unnecessary AI processing.
Combining deterministic rules, structured context and selective inference according to task needs.