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| Access Administrator | AA | The PEP role responsible for [data access management](Access-control#data-access) and [assignment of users to access groups](Access-control#role-determination). |
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| Access Administrator | AA | The PEP role responsible for [data access management](Access-control#data-access) and [assignment of users to access groups](Access-control#role-determination). Not to be confused with the "Acccess Manager" service. |
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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 Manager | AM | The PEP service responsible for [data access authorization](Access-control#data-access). It also cooperates with the Transcryptor (TS) service to issue data access [tickets](Access-control#tickets). Not to be confused with the "Access Administrator" role. |
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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 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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| 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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| [short pseudonym](https://gitlab.pep.cs.ru.nl/pep-public/user-docs/-/wikis/Pseudonymization#short-pseudonyms) | SP | An identifier for a piece of data not stored in PEP. Usually these are non-digital specimens such as biosamples taken during medical research. The identifier is stored in PEP, allowing the external specimen to be associated with the PEP row. |
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| table | | The conceptual structure of PEP's storage, in which rows refer to data entries (participants or subjects) and columns to different types of data (or separate measurements). |
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| Transcryptor | TS | A PEP service that cooperates with Access Manager (AM) to issue data access [tickets](Access-control#tickets). |
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| upload | | The act of storing data in PEP. |
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| user | | A person that interacts with the PEP software. |
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| user pseudonym | | An abbreviated form of the local pseudonym. | |
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