Glossary

The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority.

Australian Government Department of Education - The Australian Government Department of Education is responsible for national policies and programmes that help Australians access quality and affordable childcare; early childhood education, school education, post-school, higher education, international education and academic research.

ASP

Application Service Provider

B	BA Business Automation BAU Business As Usual BI Business Intelligence BoS Board of Studies, also known as the NSW BOS BP Business Process

CEC NSW

NSW Catholic Education Commission

CeD3

Catholic Education Data Driven Decision-making.

CIO

Chief Information Officer

Contention

Ratio by which a data link is oversubscribed - shared. E.G. A link with a 1:4 contention ratio means that at peak usage there may be 4 subscribers sharing the same bandwidth capacity.

CSSC

Corporate Services Standing Committee

CESC

CEnet Steering Committee

Data Warehouse

"Also known as an enterprise data warehouse (EDW), is a system used for reporting and data analysis. EDWs are central repositories of integrated data from one or more disparate sources. They store current and historical data and are used for creating trending reports for senior management reporting such as annual and quarterly comparisons." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_warehouse)

DBA

Database Administrator

DEC

Department of Education and Communities (NSW)

DEEWR

On 18 September 2013 the Department of Education and the Department of Employment were created out of the former Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.

DER

Digital Education Revolution

Dev

Development environment. This is not used to deliver services. It holds non production data and is used for testing new functionality as it is developed before that functionality is introduced to a production environment.

DMZ

Demilitarised Zone - an area outside of a network’s firewall that contains an organisation's external-facing services to the Internet. The purpose of a DMZ is to add an additional layer of security to an organisation's local area network (LAN); an external attacker only has access to equipment in the DMZ, rather than any other part of the network.

DNS

Domain Name System - the system which manages the association of domain names with IP addresses.

E	eLWG eLearning Working Group ESA Education Services Australia ESSC Education Services Standing Committee ETL Extract, transform and Load. This is a reference to the way data is manipulated and transported from source systems into the data mart or data warehouse.

F	FBS Functional Breakdown Structure

I	IaaS Infrastructure as a Service ICSEA Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage used by ACARA IdAM Identity and Access Management IdM/IMS Identity Management (System) IDV Identity Vault ITSC CEnet Information Technology Steering Committee

M	MCEEDYA The Ministerial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development and Youth Affairs MITS Manager of IT Systems

NAPLAN

National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy an annual assessment for students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. NAPLAN is administered by the Australian Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)

NOAC

National Online Assessment Capability - an initiative being managed by Education Services Australia (ESA)

NBN

National Broadband Network

Nexus of Forces

The Nexus of Forces is the convergence and mutual reinforcement of social, mobile, cloud and information patterns that builds upon and transforms user behaviour while creating new business opportunities. (Gartner June 2012)

NSIP

The National Schools Interoperability Program, an initiative of State, Territory and Commonwealth Ministers of Education to facilitate the effective delivery of digital learning projects across the country.

PaaS

Platform as a Service

Persistent Identifier

An identifier is any label used to name something uniquely. A persistent identifier is guaranteed to be managed and kept up to date over a defined time period. This enables longitudinal data to be associated with the identifier.

Pre-Production (Pre-Prod)

Pre-Production (Pre-Prod) is a copy of production with production data. This environment is not using live data however it should be representative of live data. This allows for further testing of new functionality before the new functionality is made available to production environments.

Production

The database, equipment, documentation, and procedures used in support of live business operations.

RASCI

Responsibility, Accountability, Consulted, Informed. A responsibility assignment matrix[1] (RAM), also known as RACI matrix[2] /ˈreɪsiː / or ARCI matrix or linear responsibility chart[3] (LRC), describes the participation by various roles in completing tasks or deliverables for a project or business process.[4] It is especially useful in clarifying roles and responsibilities in cross-functional/departmental projects and processes.

RBAC

Role Based Access Control

Report

An output derived from data, which is provided in predetermined format to meet a particular need.

RFI

Request for Information

RFQ

Request for Quotation

SaaS

Software as a Service - a term used to describe ‘“in the cloud”be use of an application that is hosted offsite.

SAS

Student Administration System
School Administration System

SIEM

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) is a term for software and products services combining security information management (SIM) and security event manager (SEM). SIEM technology provides real-time analysis of security alerts generated by network hardware and applications. SIEM is sold as software, appliances or managed services, and are also used to log security data and generate reports for compliance purposes.

SIS

Student Information System

SOW

Statement of Work - A document that defines the work activities, deliverables, and timeline to be executed in performance of specified work for a client.

SQL

Structured Query Language - The ANSI internationally accepted standard for relational database systems, covering query, data definition, manipulation, security, and some aspects of referential and entity integrity.

Staging

The staging component is made up of separate staging databases (one per diocese). This enables dioceses to securely integrate according to their requirements under a standardised data schema that is optimised for collection of data. The diocesan staging environment is purpose built for simplified ETL processes.

Summary Data

This refers to data that has been aggregated or transformed from the detailed level data which may reside in all of the database objects of the broader data warehouse.

Synchronisation

The process by which the data in two or more separate databases are synchronised so that the records contain the same information.

T	Table A tabular view of data within a relational database management system (DBMS) which is defined by one or more columns of data and a primary key. TCO Total Cost of Ownership. A calculation which includes all costs such as purchase and support of a device during its useful life.

U	Unique Identifier A unique identifier (UID) is a numeric or alphanumeric string that is associated with a single entity within a given system. UIDs make it possible to address that entity, so that it can be accessed and interacted with.

V	View A means of accessing a subset of data in a database.