Update Glossary authored by Kai van Lopik's avatar Kai van Lopik
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| Concept | Description | | Concept | Description |
| ------- | ----------- | | ------- | ----------- |
| access group | A named group of users that can be [authorized](Authentication-and-Authorization) for specific actions. |
| blending | The combination of several data sets into a single, larger data set. | | blending | The combination of several data sets into a single, larger data set. |
| cell | The intersection of a column and a row, usable to store a single piece of data associated with a single participant. | | cell | The intersection of a column and a row, usable to store a single piece of data associated with a single participant. |
| column | A data structuring primitive associated with a single type of data, or with a single measurement. Columns are referred to by their names. | | column | A data structuring primitive associated with a single type of data, or with a single measurement. Columns are referred to by their names. |
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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. | | [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. |
| 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). | | 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). |
| upload | The storage of data in PEP. | | upload | The storage of data in PEP. |
| user | A person that interacts with the PEP software. |
| user pseudonym | An abbreviated form of the local pseudonym. | | user pseudonym | An abbreviated form of the local pseudonym. |
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