Glossary

A - D

Term	Definition
Autocomplete	A feature where Omnitive Search completes rest of the word that the user is typing.
Class	A class is a set or collection of individuals or objects.
Connectors	Connectors perform transfer of control and data among components. They can also provide services, such as persistence, invocation, messaging and transactions, that are largely independent of the interacting components’ functionalities.
Crawl / Crawling	Scouring the Internet for content, looking over the code/content for each URL they find.

E - K

Term	Definition
Entities	Entities represents an object or a thing.
Filter	A feature that allows the most relevant search results to be displayed but limiting the non-relevant results.
Index / Indexing	Store and organise the content found during the crawling process. Once a page is in the index, it’s in the running to be displayed as a result to relevant queries.
Individuals	The individuals may include concrete objects such as people, animals, tables, automobiles, molecules, and planets, as well as abstract individuals such as numbers and words.
Ingest	Transportation of data from assorted sources to a storage medium where it can be accessed, used, and analysed by an organisation.
Keyword Search	A Keyword search looks for words anywhere in the record.
Knowledge Graph	A knowledge base that uses a graph-structured data model or topology to integrate data.

L - R

Term	Definition
Metadata	A set of data that describes and gives information about other data.
Ontology Manager	A way of showing the properties of a subject area and how they are related, by defining a set of concepts and categories that represent the subject.
Postprocess	Postprocess is to process after other processes have been completed.
Ranking	Provide the pieces of content that will best answer a searcher's query, which means that results are ordered by most relevant to least relevant.
Relevance	The extent to which data answers of gives insight into the question of the individual user.

S - Z

Term	Definition
Search Bar	Search Bar is the location to type what you would like to search on the Search Home Page.
Search Dashboard	Omnitive Search Dashboard is the main page that appears after clicking on Omnitive Search in the Omnitive Dashboard.
Sort Order	Sort Order is a process of arranging items systematically in a sequence ordered by some criterion.
Trending Topics	A trending topic is a subject that experiences a surge in popularity for a limited duration of time.