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| access group | | A named group of users that can be [authorized](Access-control) for specific actions. Also called a "role" in the system. |
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| access group | | A named group of users that can be [authorized](Access-control) for specific actions. Also called a "role" in the system. |
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| [authorization](Access-control#authorization) | | Determining whether a user is allowed to perform certain actions in a software system. |
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| [authorization](Access-control#authorization) | | Determining whether a user is allowed to perform certain actions in a software system. |
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| [authentication](Access-control#authentication) | | The act providing a user's identity to a software system. |
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| [authentication](Access-control#authentication) | | The act providing a user's identity to a software system. |
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| Authentication Server | AS | A server involved in PEP's [access control](Access-control) mechanism. AS takes an externally provided identity as input and produces an OAuth token as output. |
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| blending | | The combination of several data sets into a single, larger data set. |
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| blending | | The combination of several data sets into a single, larger data set. |
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| [Castor](https://www.castoredc.com/electronic-data-capture-system/) | | An Electronic Data Capturing (EDC) system that PEP integrates with. |
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| [Castor](https://www.castoredc.com/electronic-data-capture-system/) | | An Electronic Data Capturing (EDC) system that PEP integrates with. |
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| cell | | The intersection of a column and a row, usable to store a single piece of data associated with a single participant. |
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| cell | | The intersection of a column and a row, usable to store a single piece of data associated with a single participant. |
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| encryption | | A technique to make information readable only to parties that are in possession of an associated secret. |
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| encryption | | A technique to make information readable only to parties that are in possession of an associated secret. |
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| [enrollment](Access-control#enrollment) | | Providing a user (or other party) with the cryptographic materials required to perform actions in the PEP system. |
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| [enrollment](Access-control#enrollment) | | Providing a user (or other party) with the cryptographic materials required to perform actions in the PEP system. |
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| identifier | ID | A piece of information that uniquely denotes a single piece of data. The polymorphic pseudonym (PP) is PEP's primary [identifier type for rows](https://gitlab.pep.cs.ru.nl/pep-public/user-docs/-/wikis/Pseudonymization#identifiers-in-pep). |
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| identifier | ID | A piece of information that uniquely denotes a single piece of data. The polymorphic pseudonym (PP) is PEP's primary [identifier type for rows](https://gitlab.pep.cs.ru.nl/pep-public/user-docs/-/wikis/Pseudonymization#identifiers-in-pep). |
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| Key Server | KS | A server involved in PEP's [access control](Access-control) mechanism. KS takes an OAuth token as input and produces enrollment data as output. |
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| local pseudonym | LP | A row identifier that is unique to an access group. Different access groups use different local pseudonyms to refer to the same row. |
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| local pseudonym | LP | A row identifier that is unique to an access group. Different access groups use different local pseudonyms to refer to the same row. |
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| OAuth | | A technical standard related to [access control](Access-control). PEP's OAuth tokens allow parties to [enroll](Access-control#enrollment) with the system. |
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| OAuth | | A technical standard related to [access control](Access-control). PEP's OAuth tokens allow parties to [enroll](Access-control#enrollment) with the system. |
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| participant | | A subject in an academic research study. The term is commonly used in PEP software and documentation as a synonym for a data row. |
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| participant | | A subject in an academic research study. The term is commonly used in PEP software and documentation as a synonym for a data row. |
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| pseudonym | | An identifier that uniquely denotes data, but is not otherwise associated with a real-world entity. Pseudonyms are applied to allow data manipulation without needing to divulge sensitive (e.g. personally identifying) information. |
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| pseudonym | | An identifier that uniquely denotes data, but is not otherwise associated with a real-world entity. Pseudonyms are applied to allow data manipulation without needing to divulge sensitive (e.g. personally identifying) information. |
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| [pseudonymization](Pseudonymization) | | The application of pseudonyms to data, making it difficult or impossible to associate information with a particular person or real-world entity. |
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| [pseudonymization](Pseudonymization) | | The application of pseudonyms to data, making it difficult or impossible to associate information with a particular person or real-world entity. |
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| registration | | The addition of a new row to PEP in such a way that certain cells are initialized with appropriate data. Participants are usually registered using the `pepAssessor` application. |
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| registration | | The addition of a new row to PEP in such a way that certain cells are initialized with appropriate data. Participants are usually registered using the `pepAssessor` application. |
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| Registration Server | RS | A server that can add new rows to PEP, initializing the row's cells to appropriate values. RS especially ensures that participants have a full set of unique short pseudonyms (SPs), and that associated EDC records are created as needed. It also keeps a backup of SP values for recovery in the event of catastrophic data loss. |
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| research assessor | assessor | A person that takes measurements from (academic research) subjects. The `pepAssessor` application is primarily aimed at this type of user. |
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| research assessor | assessor | A person that takes measurements from (academic research) subjects. The `pepAssessor` application is primarily aimed at this type of user. |
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| role | | Synonym for "access group". |
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| role | | Synonym for "access group". |
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| row | | A [data structuring](Data-structure) primitive associated with a single entity or data subject. Rows are referred to by their [identifiers](Pseudonymization#identifiers-in-pep). The term "participant" is sometimes used as a synonym. |
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| row | | A [data structuring](Data-structure) primitive associated with a single entity or data subject. Rows are referred to by their [identifiers](Pseudonymization#identifiers-in-pep). The term "participant" is sometimes used as a synonym. |
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