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October 30, 2026

Digital public infrastructure (DPI)

In the G20’s 2023 wording, an evolving concept: a set of shared digital systems, built and leveraged by public and private sectors on secure and resilient infrastructure, that can deliver services at societal scale.

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October 30, 2026

Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)

An open, non-proprietary digital message format for all types of alerts and notifications, standardised by OASIS (version 1.2, 2010) and by ITU-T as X.1303.

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October 30, 2026

STAC

A specification that gives a common language to describe geospatial information, mainly Earth observation assets, so it can be indexed and discovered.

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October 30, 2026

Provenance

Information about the entities, activities and agents involved in producing data, expressed in a standard form by the W3C PROV Ontology (PROV-O).

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October 30, 2026

DCAT

A W3C RDF vocabulary designed to make data catalogues published on the Web interoperable; version 3 became a W3C Recommendation on 22 August 2024.

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October 30, 2026

Metadata

Structured information that describes a dataset, such as its content, extent, quality, lineage, licence and access; standardised for geographic data by ISO 19115-1.

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October 30, 2026

FAIR principles

Guiding principles, published in 2016, that make data and metadata Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable by both people and machines.

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Interoperability

The ability of data and systems to be exchanged and used together without special effort, because they share formats, vocabularies and access protocols.

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October 30, 2026

Multilateral recognition arrangement

An agreement among accreditation bodies to recognise each other’s accreditations after peer evaluation; since 2026 run by Global ACI, succeeding the IAF MLA and ILAC MRA.

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October 30, 2026

Attestation

The issue of a statement, based on a decision following review, that fulfilment of specified requirements has been demonstrated.

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