The following is a set of specific terms used throughout Asheville documentation and their meanings, with examples.
- Service: Asheville itself as an over-archiving service, one which consists of various sub-services that may be referred by name as well.
- Storage: Any given data storage solution that a user may opt to use for synchronizing and backing up social data from sources. Examples: Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive, Amazon S3, local disk
- Source: Any given source of social or personal data, often a social network or publishing platform, from which data is pulled and synchronized to storage. Examples: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Wordpress, YouTube
- App: Any given third-party application or service that leverages Asheville user data as hosted in storage and made available via the platform APIs.
- Identity: The sum of a given user's profile information as aggregated from their various sources. Example: Name, Email Addresses, Date of Birth, Portrait(s), Work History, Residential History
- Content Type: Any given type of content that can be pulled from sources and placed in storage. Examples: Photos, Checkins, Status Updates, Blog Posts
- Content: Data from a source Example: Photos, Check-ins, tweets